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I must have been in a coma this August when Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III came out as gay. I think it would have at least made the news somewhere. Britain's Sky News told me so after it listed famous gay athletes in reaction to diver Tom Daley saying he has a boyfriend. Dan […]

There are several Olympics-related items that merit attention: Johnny Weir Faces Off With LGBT Activists Over Sochi Olympics — Vocativ“I never had a bad experience in Russia. I’ve never had someone call me a fag, or queer, or try to beat me up,” he said. “I’m very lucky that I’ve only seen the rosy side. […]

To get you in the holiday spirit, this clever and adorable video by the Chicago Gay Hockey Assn. It is them really singing, so I give them credit for being braver than I:

The 'High Five Initiative' will bring professional athletes into LGBT youth programs, starting today with the NFL visiting the Hetrick-Martin Institute

Lest you think locker room hazing is a uniquely American phenomenon, here's David Beckham revealing that he was forced to masturbate to a photo of an English soccer player while he was a 16-year-old in 1992 just breaking in to the pro soccer world. From Metro: The midfielder said he got the short-straw with his […]

This photo (below) is making the rounds on Twitter, and it certainly looked like newly out Olympic diver Tom Daley with his boyfriend. Suppose it could be just a fan, but Twitter said it was his BF. Update: Now comes word that Tom Daley is dating Dustin Lance Black. Seems…odd. But OK. One source, British […]

People across the Web and around the world react -- mostly positively -- to the diving sensation's news that he's dating a man

How I see the NFL after each team has played 12 games, three-quarters of the schedule. Plus, my hot player of the week is well known to Outsports fans.:As I have done after my first-quarter and first-half of the season writeups, I will stick with my preseason Super Bowl matchup: Denver vs. Seattle. There are […]

The kicker's voice is as strong as his leg, and he shows it off in his cover of Michael Buble's 'Home'

Athletes and coaches, like Phil Jackson, MMA fighters and the Ole Miss football team, said and did really stupid anti-LGBT things this year. Here's just a smattering.

Adam Weinstein, a writer for Gawker and other sites, writes a chilling account of his days as a writing instructor at Florida State University and the culture of entitlement around the football program. Most disturbing is the gay instructor whose student — who plays in the defensive secondary on the team — wrote a personal […]

Mike Freeman exposes reported cold feet by an NFL team and player, and a conspiracy by some teams and the NFL to track gay players

Former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Shawn Andrews says his time with the team was a "living hell," and he blames his then-quarterback Donovan McNabb for being part of a group that teased him and spread rumors he was gay. McNabb denied the accusations Andrews made. In an article in Sync Weekly online in his hometown […]

Mike Freeman, a longtime NFL reporter now with Bleacher Report, writes that a gay NFL player was ready to come out this offseason but a team that offered him a contract backed out fearing the media and public attention. Freeman does not name the player, nor does he know who the player is, and says […]

Despite saying that Fox isn't the better fighter and has disadvantages, Evans-Smith doesn't think Fox should fight women

The duo wore their suits as a Halloween costume and liked it so much they did it again.

Like the ‘controversial' no-call in the Super Bowl, the whiners want the refs to do their team's dirty work

His NFL career ended prematurely due to injuries and his not wanting to hide. Bryant takes a shot at Jason Collins and speculates on when a gay player will come out.

While Eastern Michigan fired coach Ron English for a gay slur (and for having a terrible record), a Rhode Island high school has embraced trans coach Stephen Alexander

Vitaly Mutko, the minister of sports in Russia, says his country should have waited until after the Olympics to pass anti-gay legislation because of the reaction from the West. "Perhaps the state authorities should have waited a little," Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko was quoted as saying by the RBK business newspaper on Monday. "It […]