Category Archive for: ‘gay athletes’

Coming out: Rugby Old Redcliffians’ skipper Jed Hooper comes out….

Love it! Congrats! More power in numbers…And he is quite fetching! OLD Redcliffians captain Jed Hooper has become the first Combination player to publicly announce that he is gay. The 22-year-old back row forward came out to family and friends earlier this year. And Hooper has now spoken exclusively to the Evening Post in the hope that his story can …

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Former hockey goal keeper comes out…

GUS JOHNSTON was a champion hockey goalkeeper. A gutsy player who regularly put his body on the line for his team, Johnston represented Victoria for 12 years. While his striking red hair and natural ability made him a big identity in his sport, he was little known outside hockey circles. Until last month, that is, when he posted an emotional …

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NFL add sexual orientation to protected class…

While the public focused on the major financial issues resolved in the new NFL collective bargaining agreement—revenue sharing, the salary cap, and a rookie wage scale—one change was the most newsworthy in my view: adding “sexual orientation” to the list of classifications protected from discrimination. via widerigthts.com

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Prime minister David Cameron hosts reception to fight Homophobia…

Prime minister David Cameron is to host a reception at Downing Street for the gay community tomorrow evening. The event will focus on tackling homophobia in sport and invitees will include gay and lesbian sports stars, campaigners and celebrities. Sportsmen Gareth Thomas, Steven Davies and Ben Cohen are all expected to have been invited, along with community leaders and volunteers …

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Gays Are Busting Down The Locker Doors In Sports!!!

Jared Max Scott Norton Omg. The gays are a comin’, the gays are a comin’!…What a week it has been for those locker room doors flying open. Four men involved in professional sports left the fear behind in order to stand up and be proud. Love it. But let me say that these men were not in the closet in …

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Charles Barkley: Gays Can Play….

When asked about gay athletes coming out, Charles Barkley had this to say:“If somebody is gay, that’s their own business,” he said on SiriusXM Radio Thursday. “But it bothers me how people try to say that jocks are not going to like a gay….I think gay people should be allowed to get married and God bless them, that’s their own …

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Gay Brazil: Gay athlete comes out…

Four days after the game in early April between Santos’ team, Volei Futuro, and Sada Cruzeiro, the player took the rare step among sports figures anywhere and declared on the GloboEsporte website: “I am gay. Everyone here knows it.” That announcement stoked a national debate over homophobia in Brazil. On Thursday, Brazil’s top court ruled that same-sex civil unions must …

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Former college football linebackers tell of atmosphere of homophobia while playing ….

Inside Higher Education has a comprehensive look at a research study focusing on seven former college football linebackers, all of whom identify as “non-straight,” and how awful their experiences were while playing. The study by Lawrence J. Mrozek and Elizabeth Burns found: When players were found out, they could become targets. One former student who witnessed a couple of people …

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Runner goes from the closet to activist for gay athletes….

Eastern Michigan athlete Austin Hendrix wrestled with his sexuality through high school. Now that he is out in college, he has helped start a campus group to fight homophobia in sports. Few things in life have the ups and downs one experiences as a collegiate athlete. Whether it is winning the conference championship one minute or getting a season-ending injury …

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Rugby fans warned over anti-gay chants at Gareth Thomas…

Castleford Tigers fans have been warned by the club’s chief executive to ensure that homophobic chants directed at gay player Gareth Thomas are not repeated. The club was fined £40,000 last year after a small number of fans abused Crusaders star Thomas. The fine was cut to £20,000 on appeal and the club banned three people. The Crusaders are to …

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