Matthew Mitcham Gets Diving Gold

I first heard of Matthew Mitcham when he turned up on the cover of the August 26 issue of The Advocate. He was part of the Olympics/Sports Issue coverage (you can read that cover story online).
When we got home from vacation on Friday night, diving was on, and there he was in the qualifying and [...]

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Georgia Goalie Comes Out

I think it is totally appropriate that I came across this story while I was down in Alabama visiting my mom. It’s about Joey Fisher, the goalie for the University of Georgia who came out to his team this past summer. The opening of the story says it all for me: “Depending on whom you [...]

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NHL Endorses Gay Movie, NBA’s John Amaechi, Jagr Picks Up 1500th Point

Yes, this is going to be a very mixed post!
A story I missed late last year was about the Canadian film Breakfast with Scot, which is the story of a gay couple (an ex-Toronto Maple Leafs player and the team’s lawyer) who adopt an 11-year-old. The film, which is to be released in Canada later [...]

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A Courageous Young Man

Every now and then I talk about some other sport in this blog and this post is going to cover three: football, swimming and wrestling and one extraordinary young man who played all three at his high school.
I read about Anthony Castro this morning on Towleroad (here’s the full Towleroad article) in an obituary. He [...]

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Patricia Nell Warren and “The Front Runner”

Despite the loss this morning, Will and I headed into the Village to see one of our favorite authors, Patricia Nell Warren, who wrote The Front Runner, the 1974 ground breaking novel about a gay college athlete who falls in love with his coach, all the while preparing to go the the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
This [...]

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Montreal Heats Up & Mark Tewksbury

Wow! It got hot outside today, so we retreated for the morning to the Olympic pool complex to watch some swimming heats. That was a good time, and a nice place to stay cool. We also went out and explored the Village a little bit, that’s the gay part of Montreal (similar to Chelsea in [...]

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Rugby Drama

Ok, so this isn’t a post about hockey, but about something that happened in another NYC gay sports organization. The Outsports.com website reported this week that a rugby team refused to play the Gotham Knights, an NYC gay rugby team, when the Knights would not confirm that everyone on the team was HIV negative. It’s [...]

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