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 . [...]

Creating a Contact Page There’s no way around it, once readers find your blog they will want a simple way to contact you. You could simply put your email address on a contact page, but unless you want to read through pages of Viagra and porn ads we wouldn’t recommend that. A simple and easy to use [...]

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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“So how do I make my fonts a different color or make text bold within my blog posts?” After someone starts blogging, that question comes faster than….i don’t know, than that person who comes fast. I can’t be witty all the time. Visual toolbar We’ve all used Microsoft Word before, right? If you haven’t, good god, maybe [...]

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 [...]

OursceneTV talks to Olympic medal wiiner Mark Tewksbury during the winter Olympics last month in Vancover. Tewksbury talks about being out and of course sports in this not so serious interview. In December 1998, Tewksbury announced to the Canadian media and people that he was gay. He was the first Canadian athlete to voluntarily state his [...]