LGBT Sports Summit kicks off in Portland
The fourth annual LGBT Sports Summit brings together 120 leaders in the LGBT sports movement. The event is hosted by Nike.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 11, 2015The fourth annual LGBT Sports Summit brings together 120 leaders in the LGBT sports movement. The event is hosted by Nike.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 11, 2015"The reaction has been business as usual," the veteran umpire says.
By Jim Buzinski | June 11, 2015"I'm not a gay race horse. I'm a race horse that happens to be gay," the 3-year-old colt says.
By Jim Buzinski | June 10, 2015Former Hillsdale College basketball player Derek Schell was chosen by Jeff Sheng as one of the covers of his FEARLESS book. Schell talks about what it means to go from the country's most conservative college to the cover of a book celebrating LGBT athletes.
By Derek Schell | June 9, 2015Over the last 13 years photographer Jeff Sheng has captured the portraits of over 200 LGBT high school and college athletes. He now shares his life's work in a powerful new book, 'FEARLESS: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes'
By Cyd Zeigler | June 9, 2015Alyssa Sialaris was a stand-out athlete at Whittier College and is one of the eight covers of Jeff Sheng's FEARLESS book. Two years after her untimely death, her mother writes the letter she wishes her daughter could have seen while she was with us.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 9, 2015Michael Martin and Logan Westrope talk about how they met and a unique prom proposal at Chick-fil-A
By Jim Buzinski | June 8, 2015Chris Mosier has earned a spot in the men's 35-39 sprint duathlon world championship next year and will compete for Team USA.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 7, 2015The Change.org petition argues that Jenner misrepresented herself.
By Jim Buzinski | June 3, 2015Nike's #BeTrue line will go on sale June 5 and will be available at select Nike stores.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 3, 2015Joanna Lohman came out publicly several years ago, one of the first professional soccer players to do so. She has been followed by over a dozen World Cup players and coaches.
By Joanna Lohman | June 3, 2015The athlete is looking for a unique social media hook.
By Jim Buzinski | June 3, 2015The sites of the next two World Cups are very unfriendly to gays.
By Jim Buzinski | June 2, 2015Caitlyn Jenner has been struggling with her gender identity for decades. Now the former Olympic champion shares her true identity with the world.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 1, 2015The Patriots coach has stayed silent as his quarterback is labeled a cheater.
By Jim Buzinski | June 1, 2015The Associated Press might have had the most offensive coverage of Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover. Thankfully the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association issued some guidelines for media coverage of the Jenner story.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 1, 2015With various out players and a head coach, the Swedish and American women's soccer teams were the most publicly out of any in the Women's World Cup in Canada. All told, 18 participants were out as lesbian, gay, bisexual or otherwise.
By Cyd Zeigler | May 31, 2015Tanner Williams, a pole vaulter and now happily married, shares his story of his successful coming out with a straight ally.
By Jim Buzinski | May 28, 2015The coach said he has no association with the group and didn't want appearance to be a distraction.
By Jim Buzinski | May 27, 2015"I guess my biggest hope to get out of this is to make it clear that this should not change the perception you may have already had about me. I'm just your average guy, still the exact same person you all knew in 1st period this morning."
By Cyd Zeigler | May 27, 2015