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1 week ago | outsports.com | Brian Bell |Cyd Zeigler |Ken Schultz |Jon Holmes

The growth of LGBTQ figures in pro wrestling and events who highlight and celebrate the LGBTQ community, both during Pride month and beyond, has seen the Venn diagram between LGBTQ-led and allied promotions, Pride and LGBTQ advocacy organizations and the expanding base of LGBTQ pro wrestling fans widen in recent years. Especially as pro wrestling emerged as a source of both joy and resistance for LGBTQ populations under political attack.

1 week ago | outsports.com | Brian Bell |Jon Holmes |Jim Buzinski |Charlie Smith

João Lucas Reis da Silva is on a hot streak during the six months since he came out publicly as a gay man late last year, and it’s bringing him close to his highest ATP ranking yet. Reis da Silva captured his second consecutive tournament championship last week, winning the AAT Challenger de Santa Fe in Argentina to claim his first ATP Challenger Tour singles title in his career. He is the first out gay male player to do so in the history of the tour.

1 week ago | outsports.com | John Russell |Brian Bell |Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler

In 2022, creators Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham managed to pull off a rare feat with their Amazon Prime Video series, “A League of Their Own.”They took a beloved and well-regarded film from the early ‘90s and reimagined it in a way that honored the original, updated it for present-day viewers and, as NPR critic Linda Holmes noted at the time, filled in its conspicuous gaps.

1 week ago | outsports.com | Brian Bell |Jon Holmes |Jim Buzinski |Charlie Smith

Out pro wrestler Tommy Purr, one of the figures who laid the groundwork for the current expansion of LGBTQ identities in pro wrestling, has been diagnosed with cancer. Purr addressed the news in a Facebook post on May 27 alongside a GoFundMe campaign organized by his brother, Jordan Rogers, to support the 14-year in-ring veteran during treatment. According to Rogers, Purr learned he had colorectal cancer in early May after initially being treated for an abscess beginning in Jan. 2025.

1 week ago | outsports.com | Cyd Zeigler |Brian Bell |Karleigh Webb |Jim Buzinski

There’s only one player to ever play in March Madness for three different teams. He also happens to be the only Division I men’s college basketball player to come out publicly as gay. Derrick Gordon will forever be tied to that number of NCAA Tournament teams — three. Yet his unique accomplishment is being featured now in Outsports’ “More Than A Number” video series. His story is much bigger than that.