Olympics

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- New Zealand born swimmer Amini Fonua, a student at Texas A&M University who represented Tonga at the 2012 London Olympics last year, has come out as gay. [ Read more → ]

The U.S. women’s basketball team crushed France 86-50 on Saturday at the London 2012 Olympics, winning its fifth consecutive gold medal and again proving to be the best in world competition. [ Read more → ]

Playing like heavyweight champions, the United States won the gold medal in women’s soccer with a hard-fought 2-1 thriller over Japan on Thursday at the London 2012 Olympics. [ Read more → ]

Spoiler alert: LGBT Watch at the Olympics is a regular feature tracking the nearly two dozen LGBT athletes at the London 2012 Olympics. In the U.S., NBC is tape-delaying much of the games on its local stations, yet live-streaming on the Internet. Some of the... [ Read more → ]

A gritty United States women’s soccer team would not take “no” for an answer, rallying from behind all match long to defeat a determined Canada team at the 2012 Olympics. The U.S. won 4-3 with just seconds left in extra time, thus avoiding a penalty-kick shootout. [ Read more → ]

American tennis doubles star Lisa Raymond won one bronze medal Sunday at the London 2012 Olympics, but lost another opportunity to medal. [ Read more → ]

American tennis doubles player Lisa Raymond, a 39-year-old lesbian from Wayne, Pa., will be playing for two bronze medals on Sunday at the London 2012 Olympics. [ Read more → ]

The powerful United States women advanced to the soccer semifinals at the London 2012 Olympics with a 2-0 win over New Zealand on Friday in Newcastle, England. Abby Wambach scored the first goal in the 27th minute and Sydney Leroux added the icing on the cake with a beautiful goal in the 87th minute. [ Read more → ]

There has been plenty of competition for LGBT athletes at the London 2012 Olympics. Judith Arndt of Germany won a silver medal in cycling in the women’s time trial on Wednesday -- she is the first LGBT Olympian to medal at London 2012. [ Read more → ]

In women’s soccer, the United States and Sweden advanced to the quarterfinals of the London 2012 Olympics in different fashion. [ Read more → ]

Looking ahead to Tuesday, LGBT Watch at the Olympics will be closely monitoring women’s soccer as the powerful United States plays North Korea. With a win, the Americans would advance to the quarterfinals and a step closer to a medal. [ Read more → ]

The first weekend of competition at the London 2012 Olympics is off to a great start for LGBT athletes. And a brief moment -- a lesbian kiss -- during the opening ceremonies on Friday night was truly a lesbian kiss seen around the world and sent anti-gay pundits into a tizzy. [ Read more → ]

LONDON – A gay man carrying the Olympic torch today on the streets of London was cheered by spectators when he kissed his boyfriend during his stretch of carrying the device that will light the giant Olympic Flame tonight during the opening ceremony that will be telecast by NBC in the U.S. on a tape-delay basis. [ Read more → ]

LONDON, UK –- The U.S. and Sweden women’s soccer teams, which embrace a total of four lesbians on their squads, each won their first-round matches in the London 2012 Olympics on Wednesday. [ Read more → ]

SYDNEY, Australia — Openly gay Olympic gold medalist diving champion Matthew Mitcham, in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday, said he’s comfortable being seen as an icon for the LGBT community and a role model for gay athletes. [ Read more → ]

Peter Vidmar, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics and devout Mormon, stepped down Friday as the chief of mission for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team in the wake of growing criticism of his public opposition to gay marriage. [ Read more → ]

It should come as no surprise that cities as gay friendly as Vancouver and Whistler would extend that hospitality to this year's Olympic Games. The two communities are the first Olympic hosts to with Pride Houses to welcome gay and lesbian athletes and tourists and... [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_6373" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="(Image: NBC)"][/caption] A gay Vancouver man wants to know what the Olympic organizing committee is going to do about the 20-minute verbal and physical homophobic onslaught he endured at the Feb 8 opening ceremonies rehearsal. Tyler Sheppard says a woman who... [ Read more → ]