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Glenn Burke’s family at game as Oakland A’s honor him on LGBT Pride Night
Glenn Burke’s sister had a tough time even coming to the Oakland Coliseum for Athletics Pride Night. Her brother’s death remains painful 20 years later, but she knows how much it would have meant to Burke to be honored in his former ballpark as baseball’s first openly gay player.
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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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Michael Sam: Focused on football, not making history in CFL
Michael Sam says his priority is helping the Montreal Alouettes win, not making history as the first openly gay player in the Canadian Football League.
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Montreal Alouettes sign openly gay defensive end Michael Sam
Sam, the first openly gay player drafted in the NFL, signed a two-year contract Friday with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football league.
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Griner, Johnson suspended 7 games each by WNBA for domestic violence arrest
WNBA stars Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson were suspended seven games each Friday for their domestic violence arrest last month — the league’s longest ban in its 19-year history.
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New Jersey high school wrestling state champ comes out on college recruiting trip
It was on a recruiting trip to Limestone College in South Carolina that Alec Donovan finally answered “the question.”
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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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International study reports widespread anti-gay discrimination in sports
The findings were contained in “Out on the Fields,” released Sunday, which officials said was the first international study and the largest conducted on discrimination against gay, lesbian and bisexual participants in sports.
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Crowd cheers as two dudes smooch on Dodgers’ ‘kiss cam’
Back in 2000, two women were kicked out of Dodger Stadium for kissing. The team and the world have changed since then.