Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Cross-country, 1996. We hear about the fear of "guilt by association" driving homophobia in locker rooms, but we...
The Associated Press ran a detailed feature on gays in sports, with the focus on Eastern Michigan runner Austin Hendrix. I had spoken to the writer, Nancy Armour, and she had found Austin's t...
“Three kids. Three time zones. One mission …” That’s the tagline for a fantastic new blog, “Walk the Road” (with the url www.bradrobertben.wordpress.com), created and written by three...
We wrote yesterday about Eastern Michigan starting a group for gay athletes and their allies. One of the board members is Austin Hendrix, 21, a runner on the school's cross-country team. Hendrix...
We have a terrific first-person account about the coming out journey of a collegiate cross country runner. While he allows us to use the name of his school, he is using a pseudonym for now since he...
It seems like there's a new closeted athlete blogging every month, and March is no different. Meet Jon, a high school freshman in the Pacific Northwest, who calls himself the Rainbow Runner. He...
Steven Millard is a cross-country runner at Willamette College in Oregon and among the new breed of gay jocks who are out and not afraid to tell their stories. Cyd did a terrific Q&A with the...
The best event I've seen so far has been the men's individual sprint in cross country. The final pits the top six qualifiers in a mile sprint that was exciting and had an awesome ending where two...
Okay, there is football tonight, headlined by the USC Trojans visiting the Utah Utes on ESPN. But today's National catches up on fall non-revenue sports, and hey, the Lady Cats are pretty good.
The Georgia Bulldogs' sports teams' seasons all are over, but that doesn't mean the Red and Black are idle, as several current and former Georgia track and field athletes were in Eugene, Ore., attempting to qualify for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
