NFL Week 10: A fictional closeted player mirrors real life
TV show portrays the dangers of the closet. Plus, game of the week; fantasy pickup; Buzzer's best bet; hot player of the week.
By Jeremy Brener | November 12, 2015TV show portrays the dangers of the closet. Plus, game of the week; fantasy pickup; Buzzer's best bet; hot player of the week.
By Jeremy Brener | November 12, 2015The openly gay Australian swimmer is finding it hard to land Mr. Right.
By Jim Buzinski | November 11, 2015Christian Mays was bullied on his high school football team. He wanted to prove his doubters wrong by earning a spot with the Michigan Wolverines. In the process he strengthened his body, his mind, his self-worth and his resolve.
By Christian Mays | November 11, 2015Missouri football players were ready to boycott their game against BYU because of racial injustice on their own campus. They will take the field Saturday against BYU despite persecution of LGBT people on BYU's campus. The NCAA remains silent.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 11, 2015Out magazine features six LGBT athletes as part of their annual Out 100, including Outsports features Dalton Maldonado and Mason Darrow.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 9, 2015Author based book on his love of baseball and wanting an openly gay sports role model.
By Jim Buzinski | November 9, 2015Another athlete who thinks a supreme being cares about a football game.
By Jim Buzinski | November 9, 2015Diving exposed Alex Clark to people that helped him accept himself as gay, leave the Mormon religion and become Baptist. Now he enters his final season at East Carolina University.
By Erik Hall | November 8, 2015Taking away the Super Bowl is not the answer, education is. Plus, game of the week; fantasy stud and bust; hot player of the week.
By Jeremy Brener | November 5, 2015"Tolerance is the virtue that is killing this country," he says after Houston's LGBT bill is defeated.
By Jim Buzinski | November 5, 2015Houston voters rescinded Houston's equal rights ordinance, effectively telling the world that discrimination against LGBT people is fair game in their city. Plus, a D1 basketball grad assistant comes out.
By Outsports | November 5, 2015Ryan Mizner has lived a double life, dabbling with being a gay man yet completely closeted with the Central Michigan University men's basketball team. On a trip to Fire Island last summer, he found the strength to make those two lives one.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 5, 2015The NFL will not move Super Bowl LI from Houston, putting LGBT visitors to the event at risk of legal discrimination.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 4, 2015Less than 24 hours after Houston voted to make discrimination legal, the city has lost its bids to host the 2018, '19 and '20 college football championship games. It lost to three cities with LGBT discrimination protections.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 4, 2015The NCAA will not move its men's Final Four out of Houston after the city voted overwhelmingly to end discrimination protection for LGBT people.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 4, 2015Houston voters legalized discrimination with 61% of the vote. Now the sports world's reaction will tell us how serious it is about equality for LGBT people.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 4, 2015Houston voters legalized discrimination with 61% of the vote. Now the NFL must choose whether it stands for or against blatant discrimination against LGBT people.
By Brynn Tannehill | November 4, 2015After Houston voters vehemently supported discrimination against LGBT people, the Houston Texans say they don't have any comment on the city's new policy of bigotry.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 4, 2015Kordell Stewart has been followed by gay rumors and speculation for over a decade. Now he's suing an 'ex-gay' reality TV personality over it.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 3, 2015Phil Claudy had lost all hope of accepting his sexuality. But running saved his life and now he wants to help other LGBT people struggling with depression.
By Phil Claudy | November 3, 2015