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Russian athletes at World Outgames pose for NOH8 Campaign photo
ANTWERP, Belgium — A team of Russian athletes competing at the World Outgames participated in a NOH8 Campaign photo that was released this earlier this week.
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Campaign against gay abuse causes stir at British football clubs
LONDON — The boxes of rainbow-colored laces landed at the training grounds of English Premier League clubs unannounced at the start of the week.
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British footballers asked to wear rainbow laces in support of gay players
LONDON — Professional football players across Britain are being asked to wear rainbow-colored shoe laces at matches this weekend in support of a campaign to show support for gay footballers and to tackle homophobia in soccer.
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Pro-gay protests at the Winter Olympics in Sochi? Dream on…
It is fanciful to suggest that Sochi-bound Olympians will or should follow the example of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the U.S. sprinters who struck a world-electrifying blow for the African-American cause by thrusting their black-gloved fists in the air on the Olympic medal podium in 1968. Those were angry times…
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WWE wrestler Darren Young shocks TMZ cameraman, reveals he is gay
WWE wrestler Darren Young has become the first active professional wrestling star to announce that he is gay.
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Billie Jean King reflects on being a gay, professional athlete in the 1970s
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Billie Jean King said Tuesday that she couldn’t have revealed herself as being gay in the 1970s because it would have damaged the fledgling women’s professional tennis tour.
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National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame honors athletes
CHICAGO — Dave Pallone, who was part of Chicago history when he umpired the first night game at Wrigley Field, is returning to Chicago to take part in another chapter of American sports history: His inclusion in the inaugural class of what organizers say is the first-of-its-kind National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.
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Rogers talks coming out, returning to soccer as first openly gay player
Major League Soccer player Robbie Rogers, the sport’s first openly gay athlete, spoke with the “CBS This Morning” on Monday about returning to soccer after his retirement, and coming out to the public.
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Rogers debuts with Galaxy, first openly gay professional soccer player
CARSON, Calif. — Robbie Rogers became the first openly gay male athlete to play in a U.S. professional league on Sunday night, making his Major League Soccer debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
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Gay soccer player Robbie Rogers comes out of retirement, joins LA Galaxy
LOS ANGELES — Robbie Rogers is joining the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer in another step by openly gay athletes in professional sports.