According to an article written by Linda Robertson at The Miami-Herald, Greg Louganis will be returning to the pool this time mentoring young divers. It was only fitting that the pet dogs of the greatest diver in history were running around inside the International Swimming Hall of Fame. A prominent display space is devoted to the dogs’ [...]

Below are snippets from a press release and the website Dolphins Of The Desert  about medal winning swimmer Jeff Commings and his new book “Odd Man Out:An Autobiography” which is now available and can be ordered via this link. You can also learn more about the book and read excerpts at the link. Books written by gay athletes [...]

I had just finished my junior-year lacrosse season at Oneonta State University in New York when word came that I was going to be a captain of my team for the 2010 season. I was excited. I was honored. I was depressed. At home I reflected on my life: How will people remember me after I take [...]

Much of the LGBT news this week was consumed by the following. Truth Wins Out called on anti-gay activist Dr. George A. Rekers to resign from the board of a leading “ex-gay” therapy group and apologize to the LGBT community after the Miami New Times  discovered that he took a male prostitute that he met on Rentboy.com to Europe. [...]

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at this … however … today several websites including The Advocate  and OutSports are discussing a short piece at  NBC Sports in which new Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle Geno Atkins says that during last month’s NFL draft, one pro football team asked him whether he was straight or gay. Atkins wouldn’t name the team but [...]

  The “Chosen Few” play with skill and huge enthusiasm despite the scrappy dirt wasteground bordered by a large puddle on which they are obliged to train, a few hundred meters from the imposing Constitutional Court in central Johannesburg. “We tried many other places,” said Lerato Marumolwa, one of the best players, pointing ruefully at a well-kept green [...]

I’ve written a lot recently about openly gay celebrities and the positive impacts they have on the movements for queer visibility and rights. But as we praise these brave individuals for the amazing strides they are making, we should not take this public discussion of sexual orientation by famous people for granted. Coming out publicly is [...]

Well this was bound to happen. According to the Aussie LGBT site Same Same  there’s a website for gay and lesbian surfer folks GaySurfers.net. A new website dedicated to LGBT surfers provides a unique opportunity for gay surfers from around the world to meet and socialise online. GaySurfers.net is proving popular in its initial few weeks online, with 450 members registered [...]

Anthony Crupi at MediaWeek has reported that CBS and Turner Sports will be sharing March Madness in a deal with the NCAA. The NCAA is poised to announce a radical restructuring of the annual men’s Division I basketball tournament, expanding the field to 68 teams and splitting the TV rights deal between incumbent broadcast partner CBS [...]

Three bisexual men from the San Francisco area have filed a lawsuit claiming they were discriminated against during the Gay Softball World Series in the Seattle area two years ago. The Seattle Times reports that the men filed the case Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle against the softball tournament’s organizer, the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance . [...]

According to the Sunday edition of the Australian publication New Age, former medal winning Olympic swimmer Daniel Kowalski has come out and was “tired of living a lie” in an interview with Seamus Bradley. Former Olympian Daniel Kowalski has joined the small number of elite Australian sportsmen who have publicly announced that they are gay. Kowalski, who [...]

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Mike from Queers4Gears was on BlogTalkRadio’s show The Gay Agenda . This was a fun show for all car racing fans. James Hipps and I delved into all kinds of auto racing and talk about what really goes on in Gasoline Alley. Remember only sissies lube up their rubber tires. Plus James blew out my eardrum with his silly sound [...]

The popular LGBT news site EDGE is reporting today that Olympic medal winning equestrian Darren Chiacchia is facing charges of  allegedly not informing a former boyfriend he is HIV+. Darren Chiacchia led the U.S. equestrian team to the bronze medal in 2004, a triumph that was overshadowed when, in 2008, Chiacchia was thrown from a horse and [...]

Jack Mauro has a good article at EDGE about the Hotlanta Soccer Association . I’m at the Atlanta Eagles Soccer Complex on Buford Highway. I approach a player from the Hotlanta soccer team – it isn’t hard identifying them, as they’re the only grown-ups kicking – to guide me to the president. “Hi,” I say. “I’m looking for Joe Organ .” [...]

The NY Daily News is reporting today that out and proud tennis champion Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with breast cancer as she revealed in an interview with People magazine. “It knocked me on my ass, really,” she said. “I feel so in control of my life and my body, and then this comes and it’s completely out of my [...]

LZ Granderson is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, and has contributed to ESPN’s Sports Center, Outside the Lines and First Take. He is a 2010 nominee and the 2009 winner of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) award for online journalism as well as the 2008 National Lesbian [...]

Okay, so you’re in a locker room and you wonder if it’s polite to stare or “accidentally” drop a bar of soap in the shower in front of another guy. How about when you’re in the multi-person whirlpool soaking those aches, should you admirer what’s dangaling between the legs of the fella stepping in or [...]

I don’t know about any of you but I mark the year not by season but by sport. The NFL then into the college basketball season, followed by Daytona rounded out by the NCAA tourneys. And then YES !!! finally baseball season is back. In honor of opening day here’s a little baseball diddy for us [...]

Chris Kanyon (real name Chris Klucsaritis) died Friday night, according to multiple Internet reports. He was 40. Wrestlingobserver.com is reporting that Kanyon’s death is believed to be a suicide from an overdose of pills. Kanyon – who wrestled in WCW from the late ’90s to 2001 and then worked a few years for WWE – had spoken [...]