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Gay athletes came out, and straight athletes stripped down, in our most popular stories of 2013

It's apparently the in thing for college students in Britain — get naked for a charity calendar. The list of 10 by the website The Tab includes several sports teams, including our friends at Warwick rowing. The Warwick rowers have a thriving concern going as they raise money to fight homophobia. The list of charities […]

We will in fact have at least three out LGBT athletes as part of the White House delegation in Sochi

The openly gay tennis legend is sent against backdrop of anti-gay Russian laws. Neither the president, first lady, nor vice president will attend.

Robbie Rogers joins various Belgian sports groups to end homophobia in soccer in one of the world's current hotbeds for the sport

Anthony Nicodemo gets his first win as an openly gay coach with a 55-53 victory over Nanuet in stunning fasion

The Nashville Grizzlies gay rugby team is selling a calendar featuring some of its players to raise money for next year's Bingham Cup in Sydney, Australia. Here is release from the team followed by some more calendar photos: The Nashville Grizzlies RFC is a USA Rugby Division III club. We are a socially and ethnically […]

The principles laid out in the Olympic Charter should allow for some commentary by athletes on Russian anti-gay laws

The University of North Carolina athletic teams has released a terrific video for the You Can Play Project. It has the most diverse group of sports and athletes of any of these I've seen. Especially notable are the appearances of J.P. Tokoto and Nate Britt from men's basketball and football players Shakeel Rashad, Allen Champagne, […]

The university will cut men's gymnastics, but three gay former gymnasts talk about how the program nurtured a brotherhood that embraced everyone and helped them out of the closet. They have helped start an online petition to save it.

Sin City Shootout will feature the "Gay Frisbee" tournament in January

While big names like Jason Collins and Brittney Griner are there, Towleroad also highlights stories from high school and college sports

The 2014 calendar hopes to promote the sport of swimming, and apparently the gorgeous bodies of swimmers themselves

Openly gay speed skater Skjellerup missed out on an automatic bid to the Sochi Olympics by one position.

The first item on our news roundup list is not sports-specific, but it is a very interesting analysis of exactly what percentage of American men are gay. The piece was in Sunday's New York Times Week in Review section and looks at everything from Facebook declarations to searches for gay porn. Also, a lot of […]

Pride House International was rejected by the Russians, now they want to take their LGBT-inclusive message to cities around the world this February

This is one of the more bizarre public awareness campaigns I can recall, but when it involves Swedes wrestling naked, who cares? The Swedish LGBTQ group RFSL Goteborg got a group of Swedish wrestlers to get naked and cover themselves in jelly, frosting, cola and other slippery substances to encourage people to get tested for […]

We enjoy featuring sports teams that release calendars and this one was unexpected: the men's water polo team from Croatia. The sport is huge in the former republics of Yugoslavia and the Croatians hope the calendar will draw new fans. "Yes, these babes live in Croatia!" said the headline of one story on the calendar […]

If you like seeing a bunch of athletic, shirtless men dancing, then this video from Boston's gay flag football league is for you. The league debuted the video at its recent end of the year party and it already has 90,000 views.

The 'High Five Initiative' will bring professional athletes into LGBT youth programs, starting today with the NFL visiting the Hetrick-Martin Institute