College basketball star Brittney Griner has yet to play her first game with the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury but she's already being nominated for awards. ...
L.A. Galaxy forward Landon Donovan believes Major League Soccer (MLS) is ready to welcome openly gay players. In his HuffPost Live appearance, the...
On the heels of NBA veteran Jason Collins coming out, Brooklyn-based freelance writer and HuffPost blogger Jim Flood wrote a blog post about how rolle...
In this episode Ji Wallace, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in trampoline from Australia, talks about the importance of knowing and speaking about your HIV status. He also tells me his stories about coming out as HIV-positive to his parents and his boyfriend Shaun.
Stop with the whole, "Why is it OK to make fun of Tim Tebow for being a good Christian but we commend Jason Collins for being gay?" thing. When Tim Tebow can legally get fired in 29 states simply for being a Christian, then we'll talk.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives has been busy this week clearing a space for Jason Collins in our LGBT Archival Sports collection alongside the likes of Billy Jean King, Martina Navratilova, and John Amechi, among others.
Unlike perhaps Phil Jackson, Charles Barkley was not surprised to learn that there has been at least one gay player in the NBA for the past 12 seasons...
Because there are so many gaps in Jesus' biography it is not surprising that pundits can spin almost any story about his personal life with shreds of "evidence" to support their views. But questions persist.
Story by Kate Sosin, courtesy Windy City Times: The Chicago City Council is expected to vote on a resolution to encourage support for LGBT professi...
When I was a sports-obsessed child with a big secret, I would lie awake at night thinking about how cool it would be for one of my beloved Denver Broncos to tell the world that he was just like me. I have been dreaming of an openly gay active athlete in one of the big four team sports for a long time.
During an interview with "Meet The Press" on Sunday, former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, who works closely with Athlete Ally, said ...
On the heels of Jason Collins making headlines for coming out in a Sports Illustrated editorial and Brittney Griner publicly addressing her sexuality,...
You have to hand it to Chris Broussard: He's not one to back down in the face of controversy. ESPN's embattled NBA reporter incited a firestorm of ...
Jason Collins has never played for the Houston Rockets or the Oklahoma City Thunder, but that won't stop the Westboro Baptist Church from vowing to pr...
NEW YORK -- At an outdoor basketball court in Greenwich Village this week, Peyton Bell, 66, was talking about Jason Collins. "I support him," he s...
While people like Broussard believe gay Christians are "walking in open rebellion to God and Jesus Christ," we are pretty sure that we are actually living as the people God created us to be.
When he came out of the closet this week, becoming the first openly gay player the NBA, center Jason Collins said he had "baked for 33 years" in the heat of his secret. Millions of gay Americans have sweated in that same heat. But many of us can go Collins one better.
WASHINGTON -- The gay community has its Jackie Robinson. It now needs its Branch Rickey. NBA player Jason Collins took the sports world by surprise...
What a joy to see Collins unleash some of the best impulses within us. He is doing what I wish more religious leaders would do: speak to our highest values, refine our spirits, help us build a better world for all of God's children.
Whether it's a free country or not, you should be free to act as you want to do as long as it's not violent. No matter what it is. I came here in a Co...
Eleven-year NBA veteran Jason Collins made history by coming out in a Sports Illustrated editorial that will appear in the sports magazine's May 6, 2...
Jason Collins' coming out has already been praised as a turning point for the gay community. As it turns out, the 11-year NBA veteran sought help from...
Yesterday Jason Collins changed the world forever when he told the truth. Yesterday Jason Collins told the NBA, the players and fans that he was a gay man. It is the moment of truth that the world has been waiting for.
Jason Collins is living out loud his inalienable human right to love as he chooses. And he's found the courage, after living in the shadows of his truth all his adult life, to set a new standard. An historic standard.
