Lendale Johnson: The Ball’s In His Court
Meet America’s First Gay Black Tennis Pro, Lendale Johnson, & His Experience As An Out Tennis Player By: Shane Gallagher/Special to TRT— While there have…
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The OutField: Cheering on #EveryFan
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— Separated by only 11 miles—and both proudly sporting the color blue—Duke University and the University of North Carolina enjoy perhaps…
The OutField: Chris Burns Blazes a New Path
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— Growing up in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Chris Burns’ life revolved around basketball. He’d played it since age 6, and loved…
LGBT Top Headlines in 2015
By: Mikey Rox*/Special to TRT— This year the LGBT community laughed, cried, and celebrated together as news broke on issues important to us all. To…
The OutField: Paying it Forward on the Lacrosse Field
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— OK, sports fans: Who was the first openly gay male athlete to play in a professional sports league? Not Robbie…
Exclusive Q&A: Jason Collins, 1st out NBA Player, Talks Life After Retirement
By: Clara Lefton/TRT Reporter— After coming out in April 2013 as the first openly gay athlete of any major professional American sports league, Jason Collins…
The OutField: Anthony Nicodemo Coming Out & Kicking Butt
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— Anthony Nicodemo figured out he was gay in his early 20s. But it was not until he’d been coaching basketball…
The OutField: ‘Big News’ on the LGBT Sports Front
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— Back in the day—“the day” being, say, 2012—an athlete coming out as gay or lesbian was Big News. In 2014,…
Deep Inside Hollywood: The Year in Gay
By: Romeo San Vicente*/Special to TRT— Once upon a time, in the bad old days of closets and media resistance to gay stories of any…
The Gay Year in Review: 7 Hot Topics That Had Us Talking in 2014
By: Mikey Rox*/Special to TRT— This year the LGBT community laughed together, cried together, and celebrated together as news broke on issues important to us…
Homophobia in Sports to be Measured Internationally for the First Time
The first international study on homophobia in sport, launched today, is set to shine a light on how often gay, lesbian and bisexual people face…
The OutField: Referees are (LGBT) People Too
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— As a young referee, Ryan Powell heard a coach yell at a youth soccer player: “Stop being a fairy! And…
The OutField Nike Summit Does it for LGBT Sports
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— A year ago, the first Nike LGBT Sports Summit took place. Held near the industry giant’s Oregon headquarters, it brought…
The OutField: ‘No Homo,’ No Way
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— Outsports – the go-to website for all things gay and sporting – has compiled an astonishing list of athletes’ anti-gay…
The OutField: A Tale of 2 Coming-Out Stories; One Successful, the Other Not
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— When Jason Collins came out last month, Helen Carroll was furious. The longtime sports project director at the National Center…
The OutField: Go! Athletes Fields an All-Star Team
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT– A team finds success only through teamwork. That’s as true off the playing field as on it. Jay Hayes has…
The OutField: Philippe Kahn, A Role Model for All
By: Dan Woog*/Special for TRT– As a volunteer assistant wrestling coach, Philippe Kahn had an easy relationship with the athletes at South High School in…