Jim Buzinski

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 | Ken Schultz |Jim Buzinski |Cyd Zeigler |John Russell

Located adjacent to Wrigley Field, Gallagher Way serves as a heavily monetized social and event space before every Chicago Cubs game. On 80 days every year, it turns into a central location outside the park for parents and kids throwing baseballs to one another, ex-frat bros tossing footballs, and parties of mostly straight people. On one night every year during Chicago Cubs Pride, it turns into Boystown West.

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 | 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.

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.