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Evan Risk is a jr. high school track & cross-country coach in rural Iowa. When his friend talked about killing the queers at an Iowa basketball game, he knew he had to come out to him.

Assistant basketball coach Fran McGlinn ha been fired after his alleged involvement with a gay-bashing in Philadelphia.

The EPIC Sports Conference is bringing some of the country's leading experts on inclusion - and LGBT inclusion in particular - to high school athletes and coaches in Denver.

Hopefully St. Mary High School will embrace Nate Alfson now that he's publicly out, just as they did before he made his announcement.

Jeff Sanborn coaches boys cross-country and boys and girls track & field at Wethersfield High School in Connecticut. He came out as gay to his teams recently. It went without incident.

Juan Mendoza-Tovar was the captain of his basketball and tennis teams for Cascade High School in rural Washington this year. Telling his traditional Mexican parents that he is bisexual was difficult, but they embraced him.

Jack L. Thorne has three state titles, including a state record in the 100m backstroke. Today he came out as gay on Facebook and Twitter, and he shares his story here.

You can change the lives of LGBT athletes simply by telling your story. If you're an LGBT athlete, coach or sports administrator, and you're ready to share, we'd love for you to tell your story on Outsports.

Chris Cassingham is a swimmer and graduating senior at Plano West Senior High School in Plano, Texas. He has only come out to a handful of people but wanted to share his story here.

While Micah Porter was afraid of how his colleagues would react, they voted him county coach of the year.

Self-proclaimed 'Southern girl' Caitlin Graves opens up about the time three men attacked her for being a lesbian, and the 'way of life' that is Texas.

Out gay high school coach Anthony Nicodemo teams up with the You Can Play project and GO! Athletes for the first project funded by the LGBT Sports Coalition and Nike's #BeTrue campaign.

TJ Quinn and Bob Ley revisit the 1999 coming out of Corey Johnson, who was the first high school football captain we know of to come out as gay to his team.

Anthony Nicodemo and Micah Porter talk about being openly gay high school coaches live on March 6.

Out gay coach turns Saunders boys basketball program around headed into the final stretch

Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog makes it a clean sweep: All NHL teams have been represented in the anti-homophobia campaign.

What the Saunders boys basketball team wearing supportive T-shirts meant to their gay coach on opening day.

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

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

While Eastern Michigan fired coach Ron English for a gay slur (and for having a terrible record), a Rhode Island high school has embraced trans coach Stephen Alexander