Press Association guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 31 October 2012 15.52 GMT Homophobia in school can put gay students off sport for life, according to research by the National Union of Students (NUS). By the time they get to college or university 34.6% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students said they were prepared to take part in […]

Posted by Mike Florio on October 24, 2012, 3:38 PM EDT on profootballtalk.nbcsports.com Vikings punter Chris Kluwe isn’t gay. But if he were, we suspect he’d gladly announce it. He’d do it because, in his mind, people are people and they should be who they are, and the rest of us should accept it. But […]

UK Football Association continues drive to tackle anti-gay discrimination in sport with new training programs 04 OCTOBER 2012 | BY MATTHEW JENKIN British football associations have launched ‘groundbreaking’ courses to encourage more lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to get involved in the sport which has been marred by homophobia for years. Working in partnership with Pride […]

In an interview with Outsports.com posted on Wednesday former NFL player Matt Willig said he is sure that he played with at least one gay player. He said that during his 20 years in the league he has seen a little bit of a shift on gay issues and that the majority of the guys he played with didn’t care about […]

Openly gay men remain an unsurprising rarity in the insular, clannish and occasionally juvenile world of professional sport. The few who have chosen to come out have tended to do so at or near the end of their career, like rugby’s Gareth Thomas and the former NBA star John Amaechi. Consider then the courage of […]

Kevin McClatchy, who spent 11 ½ years as the managing general partner and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Pirates, spoke extensively with me at his home in Ligonier, Penn., about why he hid being gay for so long and about the persistent secrecy in professional sports. Here, in addition to his comments in my […]

MICHAEL IRVIN, FORMER DALLAS COWBOY AND NFL HALL OF FAME WIDE RECEIVER We interviewed Michael during a photo shoot for OUT magazine. He talks about the impact his gay brother had on his life and career.  Hear more from this interviewee.

SOMETIMES he’d say he had a girlfriend. In the world of Aussie rules football, Jason Ball thought he had to play up his ”blokeyness”. When teammates sledged opposition players, calling them ”homo” or ”fag”, he’d pretend not to care. Inside the footy club where he’d played since he was five, nobody knew he was gay. […]