One week before launching the Party of Hope, Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike endorsed the Equality Gala of Lawyers for LGBT & Allies Network (LLAN) held in Tokyo. Koike’s prepared bilingual statement of Sept 19 marks a historical moment in what could become the most LGBT-friendly host city in Olympics history:
Assistant referee Matthew Nelson on Tuesday became the first MLS official to publicly reveal that he is gay. Nelson, who came out to friends and family in June, detailed his decision to come out in a post on OutSports.com, stating that he decided to go public in part to ease his mind and be more open with his fellow officials.
I unofficially came out as gay to my college track and field teammates at our team banquet while dancing to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.” At the banquet for my team at Otterbein University in Ohio, our team captain grabbed the microphone and praised people for being themselves and made a special point of saying it about me.
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.
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