https://youtu.be/HJkx_-Av4jg With National Coming Out Day just around the corner (Oct.11) YouTube Content Creator Raymond Braun, alongside Aaron and Austin Rhodes, have prepared the ultimate coming out guide offering their best advice and personal experience. Watch above as Raymond and The Rhodes Bros breakdown the coming out process and provide a check-list of all things…
The NFL’s first openly gay player, Michael Sam, will receive an Athlete Ally Action Award, Athlete Ally announced today. Athlete Ally, a nonprofit focused on educating and activating athletes to champion LGBT equality, will also honor basketball legend Grant Hill and tennis champion Dr. Renée Richards at this year’s Athlete Ally Action Awards Oct. 20…
Michael Sam believes that he would still be in the NFL if he hadn’t come although he has no regrets for having done so. “I wanted to come out after I made an NFL roster, it really wasn’t supposed to be public,” Sam said on the Dan Patrick Show during a 13-minute interview. “It was just…
After speaking with a friend earlier this year about their experience as gay teenagers, Nate Warden realized there was a serious lack of accessible coming out stories in the LGBT community. An online search yielded few responses and he immediately saw a void that could easily be filled. Less than six months later, 25-year-old Warden…
Lily Rubenstein came out to her family as transgender when she was 12. The Southern California native, now 15, told Fox 11 Los Angeles that she hopes to inspire others struggling with their identity by speaking publicly. “I’m proud to be able to represent the trans community and be able to let people know that…
America met Neil Patrick Harris as a genius teenage doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D. Years later Harris reinvented his image from teen nerd to slick, skirt-chasing, catch-phrase king Barney Stinson on the long-running comedy How I Met Your Mother, which earned Harris multiple Emmy nominations. Not one to be typecast, Harris moves to stage starring…
For Michael Sam fans worried about the effects of him being openly gay in a major league sport, a recent survey by ESPN, and published by Sports Illustrated, should prove heartening. Of the 55 players surveyed, almost an entire team’s roster, an overwhelming majority (86 percent) said they would have no problem with a gay…
By announcing his sexuality, Missouri Defensive End MIchael Sam has introduced a number of questions. Will NFL locker rooms change? Will the NFL become more accepting? I hope both are true, but there is something I hope won’t change. NFL broadcasts. I’m going to let you in on a secret. For gay men and allies…
Meet Michael Sam. Sam is a college football player for the University of Missouri, aka Mizzou. Sam has decided that he wants to be the first openly gay NFL player, so he decided to come out; before the draft. I can’t express how much courage Sam has exhibited. Would you risk potentially millions of dollars…
Michael Sam, the first Division I college football player in history to come out as gay, has generated a firestorm of opinion on the Internet after announcing on ESPN that he is, in fact, a “proudly open gay man.” While the reaction has been mostly positive, publicly anyway, there have been significant pockets of resistance…
