Tag: "Sports"

Memphis church bans gay softballers, says it won’t condone their ‘deviant’ lifestyle

Memphis church bans gay softballers, says it won’t condone their ‘deviant’ lifestyle

Saturday, June 19, 2010
[tweetmeme] A softball coach in Memphis says she has been banned from a local church softball league because she is gay. Jana Jacobson said officials from Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, TN, disqualified her team [...]

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Kanyon

Gay wrestler Chris Kanyon found dead of apparent suicide

Saturday, April 3, 2010
[caption id="attachment_7620" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Kanyon"][/caption] Former WWE and WCW wrestler Chris Kanyon was found dead in his New York apartment Friday night, the victim of an apparent suicide. Kanyon, whose real name was Christopher Klucsaritis, [...]

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Amaechi would advise gay athletes not to come out: ‘We don’t need martyrs’

Amaechi would advise gay athletes not to come out: ‘We don’t need martyrs’

Sunday, February 21, 2010
[caption id="attachment_6394" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Amaechi"][/caption] Former NBA basketball player John Amaechi says that a sporting society tolerant of gay would achieve greater results in the competitive arena, but in an interview with London's Daily Telegraph, [...]

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Brendan Burke, seen here in a family photo after his father captured the Stanley cup as GM of the Anaheim Ducks.

Gay athletes in sports: why you should care about Brendan Burke

Saturday, February 6, 2010
By Mike Lieberman Sports in Briefs Brendan Burke died Friday. Never heard of him? Maybe I should rephrase it in a way that you might better recognize him. One of six children of Brian Burke, [...]

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Brendan Burke, seen here in a family photo after his father captured the Stanley cup as GM of the Anaheim Ducks.

Brendan Burke dead at 21 — coming out story captured national attention in 2009

Friday, February 5, 2010
Brendan Burke, son of Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke, who gained national attention just months ago in a moving coming out story profiled by ESPN.com, died today in a tragic automobile accident. He [...]

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Gareth Thomas: ‘It’s time to tell the world the truth — I’m gay’

Gareth Thomas: ‘It’s time to tell the world the truth — I’m gay’

Friday, December 18, 2009
Rugby great Gareth Thomas stunned the sporting world this week, and has publicly come out as gay. The married 35-year-old Cardiff Blues player, who in 2007 became the first ever Welshman to win 100 caps [...]

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