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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 week ago | 
outsports.com | Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler |Jon Holmes |Jim Buzinski
The 13-team WNBA has many out LGBTQ players and we are giving you one per team to root for. This list is not all-inclusive, but it shows the variety of talent in the league. If you know one name going into this season, make it “BG.” In 2022, Griner was detained in Russia for 10 months and the entire 2022 WNBA season was filled with calls and messages to “BRING BG HOME.
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queerty.com | Jon Holmes |Jim Buzinski |Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler
Wedding season is here, and fittingly for Pride Month, fans of women’s soccer are already getting to share in a series of stunning nuptial celebrations featuring their favorite players. On the first Saturday in June, England and Tottenham Hotspur striker Bethany England married former Wales midfielder Steph Williams at a beautiful venue in the rural Cotswolds.
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1 week ago | 
outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Jim Buzinski |Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler
Wedding season is here, and fittingly for Pride Month, fans of women’s soccer are already getting to share in a series of stunning nuptial celebrations featuring their favorite players. On the first Saturday in June, England and Tottenham Hotspur striker Bethany England married former Wales midfielder Steph Williams at a beautiful venue in the rural Cotswolds.
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outsports.com | Jim Buzinski |Jon Holmes |Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler
Their proposal was in front of the Eiffel Tower during the Paris Olympics. Their wedding was 10 months later on a Greek island with a stunning backdrop. For gay couple Nathan Matthews and Daniel Koloff, their special day this month came more than a decade after they first met as high school volleyball players.
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2 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Charlie Smith |Cyd Zeigler |Jim Buzinski
Nico Young stormed down the final straight in Oslo to put himself into the U.S. track record books Thursday. The 22-year-old Californian, who last year became the first out gay man to represent Team USA in a track and field event at an Olympic Games, finished the 5,000-meter race in the Diamond League event in a time of 12 minutes, 45.27 seconds at the Bislett Stadium. That was more than a second-and-a-half quicker than the previous American outdoor record set by Grant Fisher three years ago.
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2 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Evan Caplan |Jon Holmes |Charlie Smith |Jim Buzinski
A spirit of belonging: This was the goal of the Washington, DC World Pride 2025 Capital Cup Sports Festival, in which more than 3000 athletes descended on the city to convene and connect over sports. “This tournament was about more than just scores and medals—it was about belonging, community, and pride,” said Miguel Ayala, President of Team DC and spokesperson for the Capital Cup. “We saw athletes from every background competing hard, lifting each other up, and building lifelong connections.
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3 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Cyd Zeigler |Charlie Smith |Jay Robinson |Brian Bell
When you ask Rachel Rapinoe her favorite sports moments, the former college and international soccer player points to the 1999 US Women’s National Team’s Rose Bowl win at the World Cup, as well as her sister, Megan Rapinoe. Of course. Yet she gets emotional about one singular play 12 years later, also involving the USWNT at the Women’s World Cup, that shot her sister to stardom.
