The Out Field: Gay Athletes Talk About Pro Sports | People Youtube Video, "In this video made by People magazine many pro athletes talked about being apart of the LGBT community and being a professional in the sports world. "
As LGBT rights progress, why do gay athletes remain in the closet? from Chicago Tribune, Jun 2016. ""We've been trained so much when we were kids that gay is soft, 'smear the queer' and you don't want to throw like a girl or a fairy," Zeigler said."
LGBT Athletes and Sports by Jennifer Jordan, Oct 2019. "Even though I was put in this position, even though I didn't want it to be put in this position, even though I wanted to wrestle the guys, I still had to wrestle the girls,"
Sports: Stories that show how athletes, teams, leagues, and journalists who cover the world of sports are dealing with LGBT-related issues Mainly focused on the USA, Glaad. See also LGBT Sports Coalition.
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English Premier League among sports supporting Rainbow Laces campaign: Soccer, rugby, cricket join others in supporting LGBT inclusion, Nov 22, 2017, Out Sports. See also Rainbow Laces campaign set for unprecedented support later this month, 17 Nov, 2017, Sky Sports.
Premier League’s new partnership with LGBT group embraces inclusion: Stonewall and Premier League continue to demonstrate soccer’s embrace of LGBT community, Nov 19, 2017, Out Sports
The world of sport needs to support and respect LGBT players, Stonewall, 9 Jan 2017.
Homophobia in sport: Football Manager to feature gay players Modern elite male British football is still waiting for its first openly gay player. BBC News, 29 0ct 2017
Gender and sport, "In the 19th century women often faced opposition to participating in sport, with complaints about women’s inability to perform strenuous athletic feats. In the 2000s more women played sport, but women’s sport still received less media coverage and less funding than men’s sport.", TEARA, 5 September, 2013
Sport’s gender pay gap: why are women still paid less than men?, "Steph Houghton, the best-paid female English player, earns around £65,000 a year, while Wayne Rooney receives £300,000 a week", New States Man, 5 August 2016
Women in sport: The gender gap is slowly closing, Herald Sun, 26 January 2017
Sochi 2014: Gay rights protests target Russia's games The protests seek to persuade sponsors of the event to speak out over Russia's controversial laws on homosexuality. BBC News, 5 Feb 2014.
How Sochi Became the Gay Olympics The Winter Games are serving as a barometer for the international politics of LGBT rights. Jan 28, 2014
Olympic anti-discrimination clause introduced after Sochi gay rights row IOC tells bidders for 2022 Winter Olympics that any form of discrimination is incompatible with Olympic movement. Guardian, 25 Feb 2014
Athletes hit back over Olympics gay rights Billie Jean King, Greg Louganis and Martina Navratilova are among 17 US sports stars campaigning against the removal of an Olympics gay rights initiative. SBS, 9 Nov 2017
How Australian Sport Is Supporting Marriage Equality Rugby league, union, AFL, cricket, soccer and more are backing the push. HuffPost 19/09/2017.
Pride Sports-LGBT sport and equality-:Pride Sports was founded in 2006 and was the first, and still one of only two organisations in the UK working to challenge homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in sport and improve access to sport for all LGBT people across the world.
NPO looks to set up LGBT hospitality venue during 2020 Tokyo Olympics, "Gon Matsunaka , founder and head of Good Aging Yells, an LGBT support group, poses at Pride House, a hospitality center for LGBT athletes and fans, during the 2016 Rio Olympics. He plans to set up a similar facility at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.", The Japan Times, 17 August 2017
Ian Thorpe reveals he is gay, describes struggle with depression Read this report and watch a short video of Olympic champion swimmer Ian Thorpe, one of the best known sportspeople in Australia. ABC, 14 Jul 2014.
Ian Thorpe's coming out raises questions about homosexuality and stigma in sport Watch and read this longer report: Ian Thorpe has been praised for coming out (revealing he is gay), but the reasons for his reticence (slowness in coming out) have raised questions about whether being homosexual still carries stigma (is seen negatively) in Australian sport. ABC, 14 Jul 2014.
AFL commentator Brian Taylor slammed for homophobic slur on Geelong's Harry Taylor Watch and read this report about a sports commentator who made an anti-homosexul remark on TV about a sportsperson and the retain to this in Australia. ABC, 14 Jul 2014
Transgender sports debate polarizes women’s advocates from the ct mirror, Jul 2019.
Martina Navratilova on trans athletes: ‘Letting men compete as women is unfair’ the opinion against transgender inclusion in sports. from Sbnation, Feb 2019.
Baseball skipper living transgender life in heteronormative Japan | The Japan Times Tokai Nexus women’s baseball team manager Minoru Ikari came out as transgender last year, identifying as male after being assigned female at birth. Things have not been the same for the 35-year-old since, in a good way .Aug 31 2022, Japan times
Transgender athletes: What do the scientists say? - BBC Sport Is there an unfair advantage? Should transgender women be banned from competing in female categories? Should there be a separate category established? Or should sport be more inclusive? 11May 2022, BBC News
FINA votes to restrict transgender athletes from competing in elite women's aquatics competitions | CNN The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has voted to approve a new policy that will restrict most transgender athletes from competing in elite women’s aquatics competitions.June 20 2022, CNN
How an Ivy League swimmer became the face of the debate on transgender women in sports An article about the transgender female swimmer Lia Thomas who is at the cnetre of a debate about transgender athlestes in the US. CNN, 22 Mar 2022.