With elections less than five months away, suggestions that Tel Aviv may elect its first openly gay mayor have started to surface. Reporting from 972Mag.com, journalist Noam Sheizaf is reporting that second-term Member of Knesset (Israeli Parliament) and former journalist for Channel 10 News Nitzan Horowitz has launched a serious bid to challenge the current…
SAN DIEGO – Pipingo Films and Alma Films have announced the presentation of The Scar, Jimmy Larouche’s first feature film, at the Frequency Film Festival in San Diego. Produced and distributed 100 percent independently by Jimmy Larouche and Patricia Diaz, the film stars Marc Béland, Patrick Goyette and Normand D’Amour. The Scar is a psychological…
April 29, Jason Collins, a center for the Washington Wizards, became the first male athlete to come out while playing on a professional North American sports team. The response was overwhelmingly positive. Kobe Bryant, who had his own anti-gay kerfuffle with the NBA two years ago when he uttered ‘faggot’ at a referee, spoke out…
I love worship! I love to worship! I love to worship alone and in a group. It’s such an important part of our lives and has such a great emphasis in our services. Many hours and many people go into creating our weekly worship services. Worship is so many things – and I’d like to…
By Cyd Zeigler Editor’s note: Cyd Zeigler is co-founder of SB Nation’s Outsports.com. He has reported on LGBT sports issues for more than a decade and told the coming-out stories of many athletes including Wade Davis, John Amaechi and Alan Gendreau. (CNN) — When Jason Collins announced that he is gay, it made headlines. But…
CHICAGO – A new hall of fame – the first of its kind in the U.S. – has been established to honor individuals and organizations whose achievements and efforts have enhanced the fields of sports and athletics for the gay and lesbian community. The National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame, a 501 (c)(3)…
(CNN) — Jason Collins is a big, end-of-bench bruiser who can harangue opposing centers. And he’s gay. Only one of those things matters — at least publicly — to NBA teams that might be considering his services for the 2013-14 season after his highly publicized coming out on Monday. “He’s a weird player in a…
(CNN) — As the NBA’s Jason Collins made history by coming out as gay, he sought advice from someone who’d walked this road before: Lance Bass. In case you don’t recall, the singer soared to fame in the late ’90s as part of the popular boy band ‘N Sync, but he didn’t open up about…
(CNN) — Count the country’s most powerful basketball fan as a supporter of Jason Collins. President Barack Obama told reporters Tuesday that he was “very proud” of Collins, the 34-year-old NBA player who revealed that he was gay in a Sports Illustrated column this week. Obama talked to him on the phone Monday, the day…
http://youtu.be/MmhaVm7NDkA NBA player Jason Collins talks to Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos about his announcement that he is gay.
