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3 days ago | outsports.com | Jim Buzinski |Cyd Zeigler |Karleigh Webb |Jon Holmes

Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant is a bit slow on the uptake. Today, he expressed his anger at an NFL video for LGBTQ Pride Month. The video was released in 2021. In an X post, Bryant criticized the NFL Pride message from 2021, which was reposted by a site yesterday. Quoting from the video, which said, “Football is gay, Football is queer, Football is transgender,” Bryant wrote:“These are wild statements to make..excuse my silliness.

4 days ago | outsports.com | Ken Schultz |Cyd Zeigler |Karleigh Webb |Jon Holmes

Welcome back to Talkin’ Gaysball where any player who walks up to “Pink Pony Club” in June gets an extra 50 points of Weighted Runs Created Plus…For many reasons, Pride Month is one of my favorite times of year on the MLB calendar. But because I’m also fully aware of…*gestures wildly at everything*…it’s also a bit draining.

4 days ago | outsports.com | Cyd Zeigler |Karleigh Webb |Jon Holmes |Jim Buzinski

Matt Kaplon, a trailblazing gay athlete, married his now-husband, Nicolaus Wegrzyn, over the weekend. In a beautiful wedding set in Ashville, N.C., the two men joined in matrimony after nine years of dating. “I married my best friend yesterday in one of the most beautiful places,” Kaplon wrote on Instagram. The couple selected the Grove Park Inn for their special day. The couple’s big day also got a special guest wedding crasher. At one point, Gayle King walked into their event to say hi.

4 days ago | outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Karleigh Webb |Ken Schultz |Cyd Zeigler

The PWHL isn’t exactly shy when it comes to showing its queer credentials. But for Erin Ambrose, one of the league’s star players, it always helps to have an icebreaker. “My family always jokes that the first thing I tell somebody when I walk in the room is that I’m gay,” the Montreal Victoire defender tells Outsports. “And yeah, sometimes I do! It’s a good conversation starter! It has the ability to connect people on different levels.” This Pride Month, Ambrose is unambiguous about her mission.

5 days ago | outsports.com | Jim Buzinski |Cyd Zeigler |Mike Ciriaco |Jon Holmes

Out LGBTQ pro track and field athletes, led by two gay men with two wins — including one by “track’s new lover boy” — made for a banner weekend at the third event of Grand Slam Track in Philadelphia. One of the LGBTQ athletes also gave a meaningful shout-out to Pride Month. Maybe the biggest win this weekend was by Nico Young, who won the men’s 3,000 meters in his first Grand Slam Track event.