The cast and crew of the film In From The Side have been sharing their thoughts on the topic of LGBTQ cinema and the narratives that are being told. The film about a fictional London gay men’s rugby club premiered recently at the BFI Flare Film Festival. It […]
Star water polo player Víctor Gutiérrez has taken to social media to voice allegations of homophobia against another player. He also alleges that referees failed to address the homophobic behavior despite his pleas otherwise. The match took place April 17 between CN Terrassa, for which Gutiérrez plays, […]
Growing up in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, Brock Weston, 25 ,would hear people use antigay slurs during casual conversation. And when he took up hockey, one of the first things he noticed was the culture of homophobia that pervaded the sport. “Any inkling I had growing […]
Karèn Shainyan, 39, a Moscow-based editor and writer, hosts the show Straight Talk with Gay People. To encourage Russian celebrities to come out as LGBT+, he’s been interviewing high-profile LGBT+ celebrities from different countries. Unusually for a gay Russian, Shainyan has never kept his sexuality a […]
It’s been announced that Justin Fashanu, Britain’s first and only openly gay male professional footballer, will be posthumously inducted into the National Football Museum’s Hall of Fame later this week. Justin took his own life in 1998, eight years after he came out to the […]
Oscar-winner and controversial hip-hop artist Eminem has observers slack-jawed yet again, this time after a clip of a new song entitled “What If I Was Gay?” leaked online. The song, a collaboration with rapper Joyner Lucas, apparently is about two men questioning their sexuality, or wondering what […]
A former swimmer at Stanford University has accused the school of homophobia, claiming he was booted from the swim team for being gay. Abrahm DeVine aired his grievances with the team in a lengthy Instagram post on Monday that implied he was treated poorly and […]
Adam Lambert has claimed that people are ‘fearful’ of how an ‘openly gay’ artist could succeed in the music industry. The 37-year-old opened up about homophobia in the entertainment business during a chat with Hayley Kiyoko, Big Freedie and Tegan Quin for Billboard. The American […]
Australian Simon Dunn is an athletic jack-of-all-trades whose name has frequently graced the online pages of Outsports. Most importantly, Dunn is also an LGBTQ athlete activist who isn’t afraid to speak his mind when someone attacks the community. So when some anonymous hack used his […]
As we wind down our calendar year for 2014, we are thrilled for all of the major accomplishments that equality has made worldwide. However, we’d be remissed if we didn’t discuss who earned a spot on our Biggest Dicks of 2014 list. No, not quite […]
