Now that the Beijing Games are over, I'm on the warpath over the way some gay media have mis-reported our 11 out athletes' collective achievement. Search engines teem with headlines about the "gay sports hero," Matthew Mitcham, who won a...Read More
Will he be the next Greg Louganis? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, Matthew Mitcham is the openly gay Australian diver who scored a colossal upset of the heavily favored Chinese divers in the very last round of dives in the...Read More
The U.S. women's soccer team just beat Brazil 1-0 for the gold. Which means that our out lesbian Natasha "Painted Lady" Kai shares in the victory of her teammates. It was a close call -- Brazil is not a team...Read More
The last of our athletes remaining in individual competition -- openly gay Australian diver Matthew Mitcham -- failed to make it into medals contention in springboard diving yesterday. A sandy blond with a winsome expression that has appealed to gay...Read More
Constantina Tomescu's dominating win in the marathon got me remembering how far this women's event has come in just 38 years. As recently as 1970, only a few hundred women were running this distance worldwide...and doing it unofficially. They were...Read More
The Out Eleven in Beijing -- all but one are women. And how are they doing? On the athletic front, some are struggling. But on the human rights front, they're doing just fine. Indeed, we're maintaining a solid activist presence...Read More
German fencing champion Imke Duplitzer -- one of the 10 out athletes in Beijing -- may have missed a gold medal yesterday in women's individual épée, but she should get a diamond-studded platinum medal for speaking out on human rights....Read More
The modern Olympics are not supposed to be "political." But they are political. They are profoundly, pungently, proudly, putridly and pathetically political... and have been for 112 years. After all, they were the brain-child of a few white upper-class European...Read More
As I post this, there haven't been any Beijing posts except political ones, including one of mine. Hard to believe. Am I really the only jock among our honorable contributors? Some amazing sports action is going on in China, notably...Read More
Outsports.com has just published a story that there are only six out athletes so far -- that we know of -- who are competing in Beijing. This figure is sharply down from the 11 who competed openly in Athens 2004...Read More