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Celebrated British athlete Tom Bosworth comes out
The race walker is considered one of Great Britain’s great hopes for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
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Princeton offensive lineman tells website he is gay
“I think in this day and age people really just don’t care about it. It’s really not a big deal anymore.”
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Michael Sam returns to Canada to restart football career with Montreal Alouettes
In the city where Jackie Robinson made the jump to the big leagues — and a country where gaysame-sexmarriage has been legal for a decade — Michael Sam has come to restart his football career.
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At Harvard, Schuyler Bailar will be first openly trans collegiate swimmer in U.S. history
The Harvard freshman was recruited to swim on the school’s women’s team. But next season, he’ll swim for the men’s team after his transition, becoming the first openly transgender collegiate swimmer in U.S. history.
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Michael Sam leaves CFL camp for personal reasons
The CFL team said the rookie defensive end has been given special permission to return home to Texas. The Alouettes are keeping the “nature of his decision” confidential.
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Billie Jean King: Caitlyn Jenner helps transgender visibility, acceptance
Billie Jean King believes Caitlyn Jenner has given people clarity about transgender issues beyond the progress already seen four decades after they shared the international spotlight as athletes.
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One year after Michael Sam was drafted, has anything changed?
One year ago, Michael Sam was supposed to change the world. Actually, that’s not a fair statement. Sam did, in fact, change the world. Or at least send notice that our world was changing.
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Michael Sam among 105 ‘vets’ eyeing that elusive spot in the NFL
The strain and sweat on their faces showed just how much one more chance in the NFL means to Michael Sam and 104 others.
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One year later, has Michael Sam been frozen out of the NFL?
A year ago today Michael Sam came out publicly to a tsunami of support. Yet comments from NFL executives foretold his next 12 months as he struggled to latch onto a team as an openly gay man. Now he’s fighting harder than ever to get into the league.
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Michael Sam: The first openly gay player drafted in the NFL has no regrets
Michael Sam says the the reassuring hand of his partner Vito on his shoulder during the wait to get picked in the NFL draft affirmed his decision to reveal his sexual orientation to the nation.