Openly gay Olympian Sunette Viljoen talks candidly about her success in sports and the total rejection she has faced from her family in South Africa in a powerful new interview with Swedish public television SVT. Viljoen won a silver medal in javelin at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.
Shawn McLaughlin came out as gay his freshman year of college, and he felt embraced as a college men’s volleyball player by his teammates. But then he became a college volleyball coach. “[It’s harder] as a coach, definitely as a coach,” McLaughlin said. “As a coach, there are some land mines.”
After leading the Connecticut Sun to their first WNBA playoff berth since 2012, general manager and head coach Curt Miller was signed to a contract through 2021, according to the Connecticut Sun website. Miller is the first openly gay head coach in any professional sport and his efforts that he has brought in his two years in Connecticut are now being recognized.
Just weeks after a damning report into the culture of the game in New Zealand called for a change in culture, respect and responsibility. However, NZR chief executive Steve Tew says that more must be done for the LGBT community within the sport, with no All Black in history having ever come out as gay.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for a ban on transgender personnel in the military doesn’t make sense to Aaron Stewart, born Bethany, who is sharing his story so that other transgender individuals — in the military and otherwise — can be inspired by how he overcame adversity. “As long as you can perform your job, it’s nobody’s business.”
Gay Games 10, taking place in Paris next August, has nearly 4,000 athlete registrations, which organizers say is “ahead of schedule.” This is very positive news to some athletes who may be wary of another quadrennial LGBT sporting event after the cancelation of the Outgames in May due in large part to low registration.
Accidentally outing myself was one of the best things I’ve ever done, even if it panicked me at the time. It was in 2015 and I was 13 years old and I had just come out to my close friends and family. Yet I was still nervous about peoples’ reactions to my sexuality.
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