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Mickey Rourke in Wales (from Wales Online) Actor Mickey Rourke is creating a stir in Cardiff, Wales, where he is visiting to do research into the life of openly gay rugby player Gareth Thomas. Filming is expected to start later this year. Reports Wales Online: Rourke, 58, arrived with a massive entourage and insiders said […]

What are the odds that an active pro athlete will come out? Technically, the times are definitely a-changing. After all, we’re in the beginning stages of 2011. That’s just a fact. But when you say or hear that the times are changing, the implication is always attitude – people’s attitudes change, the way they live […]

Legendary Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg won 11 grand slams during his career, but is now known more in his home country and much of Europe for his fashion label. One popular item is Bjorn Borg underwear. The firm’s website has a cool contest where they ask fans of the Borg underwear to send in […]

Kenneth Faried is an emerging player in the Ohio Valley Conference for Morehead State. In an article on ESPN.com, Faried talks about his mother, who is a lesbian. He talks beautifully about his mother’s wife and their relationship. “I think people have an aura about them and the first time I met her, I thought, […]

What do you do when you’re a gay high school track athlete and members of an opposing relay team say that “fags can’t race track”? Or when your coach says to a teammate, “You wouldn’t want to get beaten by some random homo”? These happened to Craig Cassey Jr. and he decided to write about […]

Germany’s World Cup soccer goalie Manuel Neuer, who also plays professionally in Germany, says gay athletes should come out of the closet. According to Sport24: “Yes, those who are homosexual should say so. That would take a load off their minds,” said Neuer, who had an outstanding World Cup last year which saw the Germans […]

If only everyone who came out in sports could come to the same revelations that Boston Herald sports columnist Steve Buckley has concluded. Just a month after announcing he’s gay, Buckley is talking not about how horrible it would be to be an out player in pro sports, but how much support that person would […]

Australian rugby player Nick Youngquest, now playing in England, is enjoying his second career as a model, and is comfortable being popular with gays. He has posed for the cover of gay magazines and had what we called a Twitter bromance last year with openly gay rugger Gareth Thomas. Youngquest, 27, first took up modeling […]

CBS Sports has created a segment on the late Brendan Burke. They talked exclusively to members of the Miami (Ohio) hockey team that Brendan managed. This week marks the one-year anniversary of his accidental death. Check out the video after the jump. Thanks to Hudson Taylor for pointing us to it. CBS Sports has created […]

The San Francisco Gay Basketball Association is teaming up with the Golden State Warriors to bring another gay community night to the NBA. This event is next Tuesday, Feb. 15, as the Warriors take on the New Orleans Hornets. Tickets range from $25-$60. So if you’re in the Bay Area next Tuesday, check it out! […]

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual LGBT Executive Networking Night on Feb. 23 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. From the Boston Herald: “It’s groundbreaking, absolutely groundbreaking,” said David Zimmerman, whose Boston Spirit maggie is putting on the fourth annual LGBT Executive Networking Night later this […]

A majority of athletic trainers at NCAA college and universities hold a positive view of of gay and lesbian student-athletes, a first-of-its-kind survey has found. Trainers also dealt with a much higher percentage of lesbian athletes than gay athletes. The conclusion of the survey of 964 heterosexual athletic trainers, published in the current issue of […]

Marty Brennaman, Cincinnati Reds broadcaster, uses a homophobic attack to go after a softball supporter

Olympic rowers and (so they claim) Facebook kinda sorta creators the Winklevoss twins (now of The Social Network fame) are featured in a three-part video series on The Daily. And wow, do they come off as a couple whining bitches. They got $65 million from Mark Zuckerberg, their dad is worth hundreds of millions of […]

Sorry it’s taken a few days to get up some pictures from the Equality Night with the Clippers last Wednesday. The event was attended by over 300 people with many more buying tickets throughout the arena. I think the loudest cheers of the night came from the gay-ish sections when Esera Tuaolo sang the national […]

Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers The Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25, to win the Super Bowl. I wrote a recap of the contest, along with presenting my hot players of the game. I also briefly mention the commercials, which were as uninteresting as usual. But the one by Groupon that made light […]

Packers jump out early and hang on to beat Steelers, 31-25, in the Super Bowl. Aaron Rodgers is on, Ben Roethlisberger is off; hot players and butts; bad play calling and an offensive commercial. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com How I saw Super Bowl XLV: The Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25. My pregame pick […]

With all the insanity of Super Bowl media day, it seems at least one reporter had gay on the brain. While I can’t figure out who it was, a media day attendee from Dallas’ 105.3FM The Fan asked some sexually charged questions. From Time: But in a new media day low, a reporter from Dallas-area […]

Hudson Taylor is being honored by the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays with its Straight for Equality award, given to an ally of gay rights. Taylor, a former collegiate wrestler and now wrestling coach whom we written about many times for his amazing work, has most recently founded Athlete Ally. In its first […]

Sean Avery of the New York Rangers is one of the more contentious players in the National Hockey League (“despised” would be a better word for many), but he made the most forceful gay-positive comments I have ever heard from a pro athlete in an interview with the Toronto Sun. “If there’s a kid in […]