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1 week ago | 
outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Cyd Zeigler |Charlie Smith |Jim Buzinski
June hasn’t even begun, and we’re already seeing pathetic reactions from noisy people who not only loathe Pride Month but also demand that everyone else should hate it too. What seems particularly crazy is that their latest target is the WNBA’s Indiana Fever.
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1 week ago | 
outsports.com | Karleigh Webb |Jon Holmes |Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler
My late father was my first coach. He taught me how to get out of the blocks, gave me his love for 400 meters, always got on me to be aggressive — I was almost always the smallest youngster out there — and he gave me hell for jogging a pass route. His greatest rules were two simple ones:“Never cheat the game,” he would say in a gruff and loving voice.
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1 week ago | 
outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler |Ken Schultz
In men’s professional soccer, the challenge facing gay players remains a favorite topic for journalists. Two players who have just had successful seasons with their clubs have recently given interviews that tell us much about locker-room dynamics in the game today. Spanish forward Sergio Camello has helped Rayo Vallecano qualify for European competition for the first time in 24 years.
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1 week ago | 
outsports.com | Cyd Zeigler |Jim Buzinski |Mike Ciriaco |Charlie Smith
Jason Collins is a married man. The first publicly out active gay NBA player married his husband, film producer Brunson Green, over the weekend in Austin, Texas, where they now live. Collins and Green have been a couple for about a decade. They got engaged to marry, according to some people who say they were there, at the Los Angeles Lakers Pride Night in 2023.
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2 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Mike Ciriaco |Charlie Smith |Colby Grey |Jon Holmes
This week on InstaJocks, a pro soccer player is moving to Europe and offering a big offseason photo dump, one of our favorite gymnasts is spinning, and a gay pro pickleball player showed out. All this and more hot jocks. Cheerleader Napoleon Jinnies made us sweat with a free workout. Basketball star Jason Collins spills the tea on Yao Ming. Sam Phillips hit the bar. Cooper Wilson “Expressed” himself on the beach. James Christian LeGette posed with his Eagle Cheerleaders squad and the Lombardi Trophy.
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2 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler |Ken Schultz |Jay Robinson
The WNBA’s 29th season is well underway. Never before has a season been more important to the future of the league than this one. Sure, some may argue that the first season was the most crucial. There’s always that perspective. Or perhaps a milestone season like their 25th was tops. Yet the 2025 season — the one we get to watch right now through September — is the bellwether season that will tell us more about the future of the WNBA than any other. How lucky are we to sit back and watch?
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3 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Ken Schultz |Jon Holmes |Karleigh Webb |Charlie Smith
As a longstanding member of Chicago’s gay community and an equally longstanding follower of its NFL team, I have learned one important life lesson. When it comes to Googling “Bears bars near me,” specificity is your friend. This is a piece of information that a group of Australian rugby fans are currently getting a crash course on, and several of them are discovering one of our community’s subcultures.
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3 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Karleigh Webb |Jon Holmes |Charlie Smith |Jay Robinson
It began with two award-winning authors in children’s literature with an idea to pivot to sports. They huddled with a mix fellow authors, a diverse team of LGBTQ athletes, fans and an Outsports writer-contributor who hits the field. The result is “Athlete Is Agender: True Stories Of LGBTQ People in Sports.” The anthology was edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby, both award-winning queer authors and the editing team beyond the critically acclaimed “This Is Our Rainbow” in 2021.
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3 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Charlie Smith |Jay Robinson |Ken Schultz
Sasha Acheson wants to send a message to the people who rolled back rugby’s inclusive reputation when they banned trans women from the women’s game. Acheson won several international caps as a prop for the England women’s team and has also played for the famous Barbarians invitational side. She is organizing “The Ruck You Match,” which will see her line up alongside former teammates to face a team of trans women players.
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3 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Charlie Smith |Jon Holmes |Jay Robinson |Ken Schultz
The 2025 WBNA season starts on Friday, with a 44-game regular-season schedule that goes through early September and then the playoffs start. The 13-team league has many out LGBTQ players and we are giving you one per team (with one exception) to root for. This list is not all-inclusive, but it shows the variety of talent in the league.
