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Our friend Brent, an awesome photographer, went to West Hollywood for Halloween and came back with these great shots of guys dressed in all manner of sports gear (most dressed in hardly anything at all). Among them were boxers, wrestlers, a Lane Kiffin clone, a Brian Wilson beard and some guy in full-body paint looking […]

I had the pleasure of getting an advance screening out a new documentary, “Out. The Glenn Burke Story.” My review is here (I call it a must-see). Burke was a Major League Baseball player with the Dodgers and Athletics, who was widely known while playing as being gay. The documentary does a great job of […]

The documentary tells the tragic yet also heroic saga of Glenn Burke, a gay professional baseball player, who was a man ahead of his time. “Out. The Glenn Burke Story” uses interviews from friends and former teammates to tell Burke’s story. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com There is a lot of talk in sports about who will […]

When the Women’s Sports Foundation lost funding for the It Takes a Team project earlier this year, we were worried that the venerable Pat Griffin would be limited in the work she could do to combat homophobia in sports. Fear not. In addition to co-authoring a great report on transgender athletes, now comes news that […]

Total Nonstop Action wrestling has launched an anti-hate campaign aimed to stop bullying of youth. The issue has garnered national attention in recent weeks with the suicides of various bullied gay youth. They’re putting some of their biggest stars and TV time behind the campaign, marking a true commitment to the effort. While so many […]

This is classic: Shaquille O'Neal as Beyonce doing "Sweet Dreams," proving once and for all that he is one of the cooler athletes in memory: This is classic: Shaquille O'Neal as Beyonce doing "Sweet Dreams," proving once and for all that he is one of the cooler athletes in memory:

Members of the Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League record an "It Gets Better" video: Members of the Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League record an "It Gets Better" video:

George Washington University released new statements today regarding the story Outsports broke about the school’s transgender guard Kye Allums. Statement from Robert Chernak, Senior Vice Provost and Senior Vice President for Student Academic and Support Services: "Student-athlete Kye Allums has decided to live as a male student and be referred to as a male. The […]

Today we’re thrilled to tell the story of Kye Allums, a guard for the George Washington University women’s basketball team. Earlier this year, Jenelle DeVits from Our Group took Outsports to task for not telling the stories of more women and racial minorities. I asked her to find us these stories and we’ll tell them. […]

Kye Allums, the NCAA’s first Div. 1 publicly transgender basketball player, is starting conversations never before held in the sport. By Cyd Zeigler Not many people noticed a slight change on the George Washington University website earlier this year. It concerned a player on the school’s women’s basketball team named Kay-Kay Allums. Just a couple […]

The San Francisco Giants beat the Texas Rangers, 3-1, to win the World Series in five games. It was the Giants first World Series title since 1954 and first since moving to San Francisco in 1958. It was a dominant series for the Giants, who won the first two games easily and recorded two shutouts. […]

Wade Phillips’ time is up for Dallas; the Jets flop; the Patriots keep winning; hot player of the week; who’s tops in the NFC? By Jim Buzinski How I saw Week 8 in the NFL: Fire sale: The scariest performance on a Halloween Sunday was Dallas’ 35-17 embarrassing loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. This is […]

The Big Ten school will welcome gay fans at their game against Northwestern By Ross FormanAlso check out Ross’ blog Jon Kitto with Senior Assistant Athletic Director Dr. Pat Kraft. Photo credit Mike Dickbernd, IU Athletics. Indiana University is taking yet another ground-breaking step forward with its athletic department’s strong pro-LGBT stance. The Hoosiers play […]

Thanks to Brent for these shots of Connaughton, a Canadian who runs track for the University of Texas-Arlington. Connaughton, 25, ran this month at the Commonwealth Games in India for Canada and finished fourth in the 200 meters. Photos: Thanks to Brent for these shots of Connaughton, a Canadian who runs track for the University […]

For your viewing pleasure, New Zealand rugby players perform the haka dance after winning a rugby 7's tourney this month: For your viewing pleasure, New Zealand rugby players perform the haka dance after winning a rugby 7's tourney this month:

Think out NCAA athletes are still rare? That’s changing fast. There’s a fantastic article in the Yale Daily News about gay athletes on campus there, and they name names of a half-dozen out athletes at the school, including diver Colton Staab ’12 (right). The best story of the bunch involves a swimmer (the one out […]

Drew over at Kissing Suzy Kolber has a terrific send-up of the “It Gets Better” campaign, that is very pro-gay in its own twisted way. Tony Dungy appears as the devil, and Rex Ryan of all people as the angel. It’s hard to explain and quite profane but funny, so just go ahead and read […]

Kat Cressida is another gay-friendly voice in the world of sports By Cyd Zeigler There was something noticeably different about the NFL Draft this year. Sure, it was held in primetime and yes it started on a Thursday. But on top of that was an interesting choice ESPN made to be the voice of the […]

We wrote yesterday about Eastern Michigan starting a group for gay athletes and their allies. One of the board members is Austin Hendrix, 21, a runner on the school’s cross-country team. Hendrix also has done a video for "It Gets Better," the online project started in reaction to suicides by gay teens who have been […]

Just a week or so ago, most people were probably imagining a rematch of last year's Fall Classic participants, the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. Alas, both teams failed to win there respective leagues and instead the uncanny San Francisco Giants and the resilient Texas Rangers are facing off in the 2010 World […]