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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.
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outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Cyd Zeigler |Ken Schultz |John Russell
The value of professional teams working closely with their LGBTQ fans has been clearly demonstrated via a notable appeal verdict in English soccer. In September 2024, a number of Tottenham Hotspur supporters attending the club’s Premier League fixture away to Manchester United sang anti-gay chants on two separate occasions during the match. Spurs won the match, 3-0, in a high-profile game televised live around the world.
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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.
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outsports.com | Cyd Zeigler |Jon Holmes |Ken Schultz |Jim Buzinski
The FIFA Club World Cup is upon is. While virtually no one has ever heard of it, it’s a thing, and FIFA is using the event to abandon part of its fight against racism and discrimination.
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outsports.com | Cyd Zeigler |Jay Robinson |Ken Schultz |Jon Holmes
Penn State wrestler Erik Gibson came out as gay somewhat quietly on Instagram earlier this year. Now he’s making a bigger splash with a Pride Month video sharing his coming-out journey. In March, Gibson had posted an Instagram message coming out publicly as a gay wrestler at Penn State. The Nittany Lions have won the last four NCAA Division I wrestling championships, and 12 of the last 14. “Stepping into the light isn’t always easy, but living my truth is worth it,” Gibson wrote at the time.
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outsports.com | Jay Robinson |Ken Schultz |Cyd Zeigler |Jon Holmes
When I was younger, people saw me as a butch lesbian. I didn’t exactly feel like a woman, but I didn’t have the words for what I was feeling either. What I did know was that I was attracted to women — and that wasn’t going to change. For a long time, “butch” was the closest label I could find that made sense of how I moved through the world: masculine, protective, a little rough around the edges. Now, people see me as a straight man. And technically, I am.
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outsports.com | Ken Schultz |Jim Buzinski |Cyd Zeigler |Jon Holmes
Welcome back to Talkin’ Gaysball where a certain All-Star reliever has shown us the best way for an Australian to support the LGBTQ community shy of singing “Padam Padam.”So far, 2025 has been a rough go for Liam Hendriks. After rehabbing from Tommy John surgery last year, one of our community’s most vocal MLB supporters has morphed into an example of how hard it is for a player to return from that procedure, posting a 6.59 ERA in just 13-2/3 innings.
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outsports.com | Jim Buzinski |Ken Schultz |Cyd Zeigler |Karleigh Webb
The San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 on Friday night to move into a first-place division tie with Los Angeles. The Dodgers-Giants rivalry is intense, but that didn’t prevent the teams from uniting to have their players wear rainbow-themed Pride hats at the Dodgers’ Pride Night. The Dodgers’ annual Pride Night might be the best in sports. They sold 15,000 tickets and offered a cool Pride-themed jersey as a giveaway.
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2 weeks ago | 
outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Karleigh Webb |Ken Schultz |Jim Buzinski
Focus and determination have been essential qualities in Charlie Siragusa’s journey as an athlete. When he wrote his coming out story for Outsports, he said his primary target was to break onto the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour. But he had another ambition too. “Hopefully, I can do my LGBTQ family proud and be an example for the next generation of queer athletes, like so many of you all have been for me.”Three years later, Siragusa isn’t just a full-time pro, he’s also part of Team USA.
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queerty.com | Ken Schultz |Jim Buzinski |Cyd Zeigler |Karleigh Webb
There are many under-the-radar skills that go into being a modern NFL star which fly under the radar of most casual fans. For instance, players must possess the mental capacity to memorize an entire playbook and execute any page from it at a moment’s notice. Then they must have the physical fortitude to absorb a hit from a 300- pound monstrosity of a human being and still hang onto the football while their every cell cries out in agony.
