Awards

Conner Mertens selflessly gave his time and energy to many other young struggling gay and bisexual athletes, helping several of them come out publicly. High school coach Anthony Nicodemo and former NFL player Wade Davis also helped lead the way.

The WNBA star had a year to remember on and off the court. Speed skater Ireen Wüst and shot putter Tina Hillman are our runners-up.

Karen Morrison has helped changed the conversation about LGBT people in the NCAA. Nevin Caple has also helped break down barriers in women's sports.

The Outsports editorial staff will hand out six awards to honor the people who helped make change - and in one case the person who stood defiant of said change.

Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated says the media's handling of Michael Sam was "tactful," with few missteps.

We'll look back at 2014 as another watershed year for LGBT people in sports with at least 109 people coming out publicly.

Outsports counts down its 25 most-read stories of the year. Only two athletes show up more than once. Can you guess which ones?

A third of Towleroad's list of comings out from 2014 are from the sports world.

No individual or group of people transformed the conversation around sports - and dominated headlines - for all of 2014 like LGBT people in sports.

Michael Sam, the openly gay defensive end, is acknowledged for the contribution of his coming out to society and sports.

Michael Sam's courage dominated sports news all year long.

Michael Sam accepted ESPN's Arthur Ashe Courage Award for coming out as gay before the NFL Draft. Now he sets out to write the final act in this transformative year in sports.

Gay NFL prospect Michael Sam will accept the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPN's broadcast of the ESPYs in July.

It's Outsports' third GLAAD Award nomination. Nine nominations are related to sports this year.

Honorees include Jason & Jarron Collins, Scott Norton, Kirk Walker, Helen Carroll and others. The event also celebrates the first anniversary of StandUp Magazine.

Applications for the national award are due Nov. 26.

This was very cool for Jim and me, to be named by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 100 sports Twitter feeds to follow on Twitter’s fifth birthday. A couple things that jump out at us. First, we’re by far one of the least-followed Twitter feeds on the list; Second is the process by […]

We were thrilled to hear yesterday that Outsports has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for the second year in a row. Jim’s piece last winter that introduced Hudson Taylor to the world was nominated for best Digitial Journalism article along with four other articles. Other sports pieces nominated include two documentary films (Prodigal […]

Outsports was well-represented at the GLAAD Awards in New York City Saturday night. While we didn’t win in the Outstanding Digital Journalism category in which we were nominated, we were very proud to be nominated with in such a strong category (with so many other sports-focused articles). Not only did we not win, we didn’t […]

This weekend are the GLAAD Awards in New York City where the sportiest of their 2010 Awards, Outstanding Digital Journalism-Article, will be handed out. It’s one of a select few awards being handed out on stage this year, which is a nice nod to the sports world. I’ll be attending, and Brian Sims (who inspired […]