LGBT history in sport

Celebrating LGBTQ Athletes: Champions of Inclusivity in Sports

Gus Kenworthy, an Olympic freestyle skier, captivates audiences with his incredible skills and his unwavering advocacy for LGBTQ rights. As the ...

A League of their Own highlights the queer history of women in sports

De la Cretaz has written many articles on queer athletes, and teamed up with Lindsay D'Arcangelo to write “Hail Mary,” a book that tells the ...

The OutField: Gay Sports' Hot 100 important ... - The Rainbow Times

The OutField: Gay Sports' Hot 100 important moments in gay sports history ... To John Amaechi's long list of achievements – former NBA basketball ...

LGBTQ+ History Month 2021: Athletes - Human Rights Campaign

In October 2021, Daley announced that he was going to make it his mission to ensure that “countries [where it's] punishable by death for LGBT ...

Are there any other sports in which open gay athletes are common?

Billie Jean King, professional tennis player, gay · Renée Richards, another professional tennis player, trans · Michael Sam, NFL, gay · Ryan ...

The 2024 Olympic Games Are Making Queer History - Men's Health

Paris 2024 will feature more openly LGBTQ+ athletes competing in the Olympic Games than ever—but there's still progress to be made in terms ...

Understanding The Rise Of Gay Teams In Sports: An In-Depth ...

The history of gay teams can be traced back to the early 1980s when the first organized gay sports leagues began to form. These leagues were ...

LGBT+ History Month: Sharing stories from UK sport

In between the two events, the 26-year-old was outed as gay by a German tabloid newspaper. Despite this, he went on to be named the BBC Sports ...

An American Sports Icon's Legacy of LGBTQ Rights | The Nation

Billie Jean King's long history of activism proved that the personal is political. ... EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originally appeared at ...

The history of the Gay Games - the event that grew but stuck to its ...

Waddell did not want the Gay Games to be a competitor or alternative to the Olympics, but wanted to apply the ethos of the Olympics to an event ...

LGBTI Sports Blog - LEAP Sports Scotland

LGBTI Sports Blog. LEAP Sports > LGBTI Sports Blog > LGBT History Month · Blurring ...

30 LGBTQ+ Women Who Changed Sports, Culture, Politics, History

No list of groundbreaking athletes would be complete without Billie Jean King, one of the greatest women's tennis players of all time and a ...

LGBT Athletes And Their Importance - Bay Area Reporter

Some of the biggest sports in the world have had a lot of racial issues and like some races, the LGBTQIA+ community is discriminated against. In ...

Sport and the LGBTIQ+ Community: A South Australian Study - PMC

According to participants 80% witnessed or experienced homophobia in sport in Australia, with 85% of gay men and 84% of lesbians personally targeted heard ...

A queer history of the Olympics – from naked wrestling to anti-sex beds

The first known Olympic athlete to be gay was French equestrian Robert de Montesquiou, or, to give him his full title, Marie Joseph Robert Anatole.

"LGBTQ Athletes and Discrimination in Sport" by Rebecca Mattson

In the professional world of sports, few athletes are openly homosexual; most remain closeted until retirement. The professional sports arena has traditionally ...

LGBT Inclusion in Sports - Center for American Progress

Study results suggest that professional teams that express support for LGBT athletes and fans and those that endorse laws that protect LGBT ...

It's LGBTQ History Month! - Outsports

Outsports' 100 most important moments in LGBT-sports history · 1) Dave Kopay comes out / 1975 / football · 2) Martina Navratilova comes out / 1981 ...

Why There Few Openly Gay Athletes In Men's Professional Sports

Robbie Rogers made history in 2013 when he took the field for the Los Angeles Galaxy after as the first openly gay player in professional U.S. ...

Celebrating influential LGBTQ+ athletes - TSN

Former NBA player Jason Collins became the first publicly gay athlete to play in any of the four major North American pro sports leagues when he ...

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The UK LGBT Archive, formerly the LGBT History Project, is an LGBT online encyclopaedia for the United Kingdom It was created in June 2011 by Jonathan Harbourne using MediaWiki software.