A North Carolina middle-school girl who wrote to all nine Supreme Court Justices for a ruling in favor of marriage equality on behalf of her same-sex parents has received a response. According to a report in the Washington Blade, Cameron a 6th grader received the response from Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a letter dated…
U.S soccer star Robbie Rogers has come out as gay on the day he retired from the game Friday. The former Columbus Crew winger represented America on 18 occasions, including at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But Rogers, who was released from his deal by English second-tier club Leeds United last summer before taking up a…
THE NETHERLANDS – The Dutch Football Association (FA) – the governing body of professional soccer in The Netherlands – is running a TV commercial highlighting the lack of openly gay footballers. The ad, which has been shown on Dutch television shows a man in a closet playing soccer and then enjoying drinks with his team…
Twenty-two openly gay Olympians will compete in the 2012 London Olympics – a staggeringly low number compared to the nearly 11,000 so-called straight athletes who have registered to compete. Gay men represent the smallest of the openly gay competitors. The number, although low, is an improvement over the 11 gay athletes who competed in Athens…
LONDON – Two professional soccer players have been fined for making anti-gay comments on Twitter. Pinknews.co.uk reported that Nile Ranger, a forward for Premier League team Newcastle United and Manny Smith a defender for League One Walsall have been handed fines by the The Football Association (FA), the governing body of English soccer, for their…
David Testo, former Major League Soccer player with the Columbus Crew (Ohio), has come out and admitted he is gay. According to Outsports.com he told the CBC, “I’m gay; I’m gay. I did not choose. It’s just part of who I am. And it has nothing to do with the talent of a soccer player….
