Tag: gay athletes
Closeted footballer reveals his coming-out date, and it’s sooner than you think
T-minus 24 hours! The gay footballer who’s been peeking out from the closet for the past few weeks is apparently making his big reveal on Wednesday, July 24.
On Sunday, July 21, he tweeted “24.07.19 ????.”
This still-anonymous Twitter account, purported to belong to a gay English Football League player, first got our attention with a July 5 announcement.
“I’m a professional footballer, playing for a club in the ,” that tweet read. “I will be revealing my identity soon, but I...
Gay pro footballer peeks out from behind the closet door
He’s coming out, and he wants the world to know. An anonymous Twitter user claiming to be a gay English Football League player says he’s getting ready to publicly come out and has been cluing in his loved ones in the meantime.
“I’m a professional footballer, playing for a club in the . I will be revealing my identity soon, but I am a proud gay man, hoping to break the mould,” the user wrote on July 5. “I am...
2018 Olympics Have a Record 14 Out LGBT+ Athletes
I had bookmarked the outsports.com story, 2018 Olympics will have a record 13 out LGBTQ athletes, but when I came back to do the write-up, it had changed to 14.
Often when we do this list, readers will alert us to someone we missed and we very much appreciate the tips. Send us any names we missed, along with relevant links, to: outsports@gmail.com.
Bravo outsports.com for saying, "HELLO! We missed one! Whoops!" We love the peeps over at outsports.com for bringing...
Simon Dunn says it’s “selfish” for the LGBTQ community to want gay athletes come...
Retired bobsledder Simon Dunn thinks that it’s “selfish” for the LGBTQ community to expect athletes to come out of the closet.
Though the Australian became the first gay man to represent his country in the Olympics, he still feels homophobia has the potential stamp out the careers of promising LGBTQ athletes — despite the fact that diver Tom Daley, rugby player Keegan Hirst, and freeskiier Gus Kenworthy managed to come out of the closest quite unscathed.
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One of NCAA’s first publicly out athletes, Ryan Quinn, marries partner Chris Fajardo
Two athletes marry after six years together.
In the early days of Outsports, out LGBT athletes who were willing to share their stories publicly were few and far between.
One of the few was Ryan Quinn, a cross-country skier from 1999 to 2003 for the Univ. of Utah. He won an NCAA national championship with the team in 2003, coming out to his team in “Mormon Country.” He was one of the first gay college athletes to publicly shine a light...
