Just One of the Guys
A Goalie Comes Out and Finds Out Little Has Changed (and That's Good)
By Outsports | February 28, 2013A Goalie Comes Out and Finds Out Little Has Changed (and That's Good)
By Outsports | February 28, 2013(This story was published in 2004). 2005 update: Florida softball coach fired In a settlement that was termed groundbreaking, the University of Florida has agreed to provide diversity training dealing with homophobia to all its coaches, athletic directors and staff. The settlement was reached in the case of Andrea Zimbardi, a softball player who says […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 28, 2013'Coming Out Often Felt Like Jumping Off a 30-Foot Cliff into a Deep Pool of Water'
By Outsports | February 28, 2013Indiana High School Basketball Star Stays in the Closet, but His Secret Carries a Price
By Outsports | February 28, 2013(This story was published in 2002). A 15-year-old California student banned from gym class because she is a lesbian has sued her middle school, alleging discrimination. Ashly Massey, an eighth-grader in Banning, a small community in the Southern California desert, contends she was forced to sit in the principal’s office during physical education class this […]
By Outsports | February 28, 2013(This story was published in 2005). Andrew Goldstein, the All-American Dartmouth College lacrosse goalie who came out to his team after the 2003 season, was the subject of a feature segment on ESPN’s SportsCenter on May 29. “I never once imagined that I would be an openly gay person, that that would be my life. […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 28, 2013Female athletes must face lesbian stereotype in so-called masculine sports
By Outsports | February 28, 2013Some make sexual orientation an issue during recruiting trips
By Outsports | February 28, 2013Some gay athletes at UCLA feel isolated from teammates and coaches on and off the field
By Outsports | February 28, 2013Player Says She Was Released Because She Is a Lesbian; School Defends Coaches
By Jim Buzinski | February 28, 2013Skier: 'I Could Not Approach My Potential as an Athlete if Pieces of Myself Were Scattered'
By Outsports | February 28, 2013'I Wasn't Going to Let Some Ignorant Man Mess With My Dreams and Tell Me That I Am Not Worth It '
By Outsports | February 28, 2013A Rower Comes Out: If Your Teammates Don’t Accept You, Then You Really Aren’t on a Team
By Outsports | February 28, 2013Graham Ackerman wins back-to-back national championships
By Cyd Zeigler | February 28, 2013Brendon Ayanbadejo and Chris Kluwe continue their LGBT advocacy with a Supreme Court brief in support of same-sex marriage
By Cyd Zeigler | February 28, 2013NFL spokesman Greg Aiello says the League is investigating what teams asked the question, and the League will take action
By Cyd Zeigler | February 27, 2013Seattle Sounders player Marc Burch says Don Garber made the right decision, is ready to start his new season
By Jim Buzinski | February 27, 2013(This story was published in April 2003). Yet another pitcher in Major League Baseball has a problem with gay people. Todd Jones, a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, had some choice words for the Denver Post after a reporter asked the pitcher about the Broadway play, Take Me Out, in which a professional baseball […]
By Outsports | February 26, 2013Cubs pitcher apologizes for remarks
By Jim Buzinski | February 26, 2013Fox Sports columnist, known as "The Big Sexy," thinks the NFL commissioner has an obligation to show stronger support for gay athletes. He also says 15% of the NFL is gay or bisexual.
By Cyd Zeigler | February 26, 2013