Mitch Brown is one of very few men to have played pro sports and come out as bisexual. The former AFL player says going public is like “jumping out of a plane” and says more bi guys should work towards that leap of faith. For @outsports.com #BiVisibilityDay

🩵 September is the second anniversary of Coventry City’s LGBTQ+ and allies fan group @proudskyblues.co.uk, which is going from strength to strength! 🩷💜💙 … and Sep 23rd is #BiVisibilityDay, so a perfect time for a Q&A with the group’s founder Lewis Wale 🙌 🔗 Link in reply! /1

If #TeamLGBTQ were a competing nation at the #WorldAthleticsChamps, they’d have finished 4th on the medal table! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙌 For @outsports.com, here are the Pride-fuelled athletes who made podiums, along with a few more queer-oes and some bonus thirst… #WCHTokyo25

Marvellous Maria Perez, now a 4-time world champion and in an elite group of ‘double double’ gold-medal winners with Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt and Sir Mo Farah. Now chasing solo Olympic gold at LA 2028, the Spaniard is among the greatest #TeamLGBTQ track athletes ever. For @outsports.com #WCHTokyo25

🫶 Seamus Derbyshire and his Great Britain 4x400m relay teammates are through to Sunday’s #WorldAthleticsChamps final in Tokyo. 👏 The Netherlands, with Ramsey Angela running, have also qualified. #WCHTokyo2025 #TeamLGBTQ @sportsmedialgbt.com @outsports.com

Canada are one game away from winning the Rugby World Cup, with top-scoring Sophie de Goede turning in another sensational #RWC2025 performance. Gay icon Shania Twain said in her pre-match message: “Let’s go girls!” Can anyone stop them? For @outsports.com

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Sometimes, it’s OK to just be gay and thirsty. This article is the water station on my marathon viewing of the #WorldAthleticsChamps. For @outsports.com #WCHTokyo25 #LGBTQ

It's been really great to connect with Jon and welcome him into Sports Media LGBT+ in the last year or so. His path towards #comingout as gay has had its challenges but how great to see him thriving, both professionally and personally. Thanks for the chat, Jon! #WorldAthleticsChamps #WCHTokyo25

NEW: As one of just three out LGBTQ athletes among more than 1,000 men competing in #WorldAthleticsChamps events, Seamus Derbyshire deserved to enjoy his debut. He wasn’t at his best at #WCHTokyo25 but there’s plenty to take pride in. For @outsports.com

🏳️‍🌈 Good luck to Seamus Derbyshire, who goes in Heat 4 of the 400m hurdles at the #WorldAthleticsChamps today 🙌 Scheduled time is 11.59am BST, don't miss his introduction on the start line! Read my interview on @outsports.com... #WCHTokyo25

💙 As #WatfordFC return to blue shirts this weekend to honour Sir Elton John, it’s also a chance for LGBTQ sports fans everywhere to celebrate a gay icon whose passionate support for his football club resonates with us all. For @outsports.com @sportsmedialgbt.com

At the #WorldAthleticsChamps in Tokyo, there will be more out LGBTQ athletes competing than ever before in the event’s history, including a British hurdler making his debut at this elite level. I’ve written about #TeamLGBTQ at #WCHTokyo25 for @outsports.com @sportsmedialgbt.com

NEW: There’s no escaping the fact women’s rugby is super gay, but now at the World Cup, the players are embracing this more than ever before. Credit goes to “queeraspondent” Bailey Te Maipi and Alice Soper for the LGBTQ uplift - I spoke to them both for @outsports.com about why it matters. #RWC2025

I’ll have said this before, but every now and then I do an interview that reminds me why I do this - speaking to Olivia was definitely another one of those moments. Talking about some hugely important topics, and hearing how things came full circle at Endon, made me emotional just listening to her

In these turbulent times for queer media, @outsports.com is bucking the trend. Proud to be #TeamLGBTQ and part of the success story with Q.Digital 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Story by Sara Guaglione for @digidaymedia.bsky.social

From a Tinder match, to a Sydney cocktail bar, to a dream wedding featured in Vogue… But Liam Forcadilla, Australia Kelpies #netball captain, is in no way complacent about having the right to say actor Lukas Radovich is his husband. For @outsports.com #LGBTQ

Star player uses homophobic slur against an opposition player. Star player gets suspended and issues a fulsome apology. Teams meet again - and fans loudly boo the opposition player, blaming him for their hero’s ban. Yes, it’s the #AFL. For @outsports.com

The ‘Life’s A Pitch?’ panel at #FootballPride 2025 explored experiences of working in the game when you’re #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Event co-host Jack Murley was joined by history-making footballer Josh Cavallo; player & coach El Finneran; academic Dr Beth Burgess; & Player Care Group founder Hugo Scheckter. /1

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Our ‘Life’s A Pitch?’ panel at #FootballPride produced valuable anecdotes about working in the game when you’re LGBTQ. Catch up on the chat with Josh Cavallo, El Finneran, Hugo Scheckter and Dr Beth Burgess on @outsports.com, and listen on Jack Murley’s podcast. @footballvhomophobia.com

So far, we know of at least 8 out LGBTQ athletes who’ll take part in the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Among them is Dutch sprinter Ramsey Angela, who “hates labels” but insists: “Be who you are and don’t be ashamed.” For @outsports.com #WCHTokyo25 #TeamLGBTQ

✌️ A spirited show of defiance characterised #FootballPride 2025, not least in the panel chat focusing on the new and ongoing challenges facing LGBTQ+ fans 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ The @prideinfootball.bsky.social alliance of groups has a decade of experience to build upon - catch up on the discussion… /1

🏳️‍🌈🏉🏳️‍⚧️ The recent #RugbyPride event in Manchester was such an important contribution to the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Internationals alongside grassroots players, asking the question - is this really such an inclusive sport? For @outsports.com | #RWC2025

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ Josh Cavallo will be in Leicester on Friday to speak at #FootballPride 🗣️ “There really is no event quite like it – it’s joyful and uplifting, with a strong spirit of protest that’s fitting for the fractious times we’re living in” - @louenglefield.bsky.social, @footballvhomophobia.com More ⬇️

"That sense of empathy, even just a fraction, I think it’ll make a huge difference." On the day he knocked a brick out of the #AFL's wall of silence, Mitch Brown also shared advice on how to build a more #LGBTQ -inclusive future in the game. For @outsports.com @sportsmedialgbt.com

NEW: Seamus Derbyshire has found confidence on the track this season, taking him to a 400m hurdles PB and a place in Great Britain’s World Championships team. I spoke to him for @outsports.com about performance, “flamboyance” and his queer charisma. #WCHTokyo25 @sportsmedialgbt.com #LGBTQsports

📣⚽️🎭 It’s #FootballPride week - and here’s a theatre announcement! 🌟 Ethan Pascal Peters’ new play ‘For Too Free Won’ - a superb LGBTQ+ comedy-drama about a group of top-flight footballers, their off-field lives, and queerness in the British game - is on the bill in Leicester on Friday… /1

🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ It’s a pivotal time for the Pride in Football family of LGBTQ+ and allies fans groups - after the network’s first 10 years, what does the future hold? At #FootballPride on Friday 29 August, Joe White, Jo Bailey, Deborah Dilworth and Dr Jack Lopez will discuss on a panel… /1

🎥 Big screen signing! At Football Pride, you can see ‘We’ll Go Down In History’ which tells the story of award-winning club @trukunitedfc.bsky.social 🙌 🙏 Thank you to all involved in the film for making this screening in Leicester on Fri 29 Aug possible! 🎟️ ytheatre.ticketsolve.com/share/117366...

🎤 What a signing! We’ve got the awesome Andrew White, stand-up comedian extraordinaire and loyal supporter of AFC Bournemouth, on our bill for Football Pride in #Leicester on Friday 29 August (10am to 5pm)… only 1 week to go! 🎟️ Buy a ticket here 👉 ytheatre.ticketsolve.com/share/117366... #LGBTQ

History-making gay soccer player says his pro career is over due to injury - www.outsports.com/2025/8/21/24...

Not many out gay men with a history in Aussie rules, which makes Mike O’Donnell an important voice amid lots of noise surrounding Izak Rankine and the latest AFL homophobic slur incident. The so-called “compelling medical submissions” and Snoop Dogg factor are in the mix too… For @outsports.com

📣 Welcome to the #FootballPride line-up, El Finneran! We’re looking forward to welcoming the AFC Sudbury player and licensed coach to our event in #Leicester on Friday 29 August (10am-5pm) 💛 El will be among the LGBTQ+ panelists discussing their experiences of working in the game /1

🏉🏆🌈 The Rugby World Cup is almost here! At @outsports.com we’re celebrating with a roster of out #LGBTQ players, because (forever and always) representation matters. As always, our criteria is ‘publicly out’ (socials, media interviews etc) - and at least 10% of players are proudly visible. #RWC2025

💚 10 days to go until #FootballPride, and joining us on Fri 29 Aug will be Hugo Scheckter - the founder and MD of the Player Care Group will be sharing his insights ⚽️🌈 Hugo will be part of a panel exploring experiences of working in the pro game when you’re #LGBTQ+ /1

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Justine Lindsay has told Outsports she is NOT returning as a Carolina Panthers cheerleader next season. Several outlets falsely reported that she would be, amid a surge of ‘interest’ (much of it LGBTQ-phobic) in NFL cheerleading. @jimbuzinski.bsky.social with the story for @outsports.com

🧡 Vicky Park Queens player-coach Jordan Boulton will speak at Football Pride 2025, in the panel moderated by FvT campaign lead Natalie Washington ⚽️ Jordan will share her experience of inclusive WNB football, and how clubs and teams can continue to create welcoming spaces where everyone can play /1

As was the case last year, Marcus Urban talking about gay male footballers is again exciting the media. His comments about “supposedly religious manipulators” and how they influence locker rooms are timely, in light of reactions to the Premier League’s Rainbow Laces decision. For @outsports.com

🤝 The League Managers Association is a PRIDE SPONSOR of Football Pride 2025, which will be held in Leicester on Friday 29 August ⚽️🌈 Thank you to our friends at the LMA for again supporting our annual event, which is dedicated to conversations about LGBTQ+ inclusion at all levels of the game /1

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A column following last week’s #RainbowLaces news, and where the #LGBTQfootball conversations are at now…

🙏 We’re grateful to PGMOL for being a PRIDE SPONSOR on Football Pride 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️ The organisation for professional match officials in the English game actively promotes LGBTQ+ inclusion; supports the LGBTQ+ Professionals in Football Collective; and is a champion for equality and diversity 🙌 /1

Lars Fellows has always loved football but turned away from the game when he transitioned. On the FvH Podcast, the #IKissedaBoy star speaks about finding joy again at Village Manchester. He also criticises the FA’s new rules for trans men: “It’s trying to say we don’t belong.” For @outsports.com

🎙️ We’re delighted to confirm that acclaimed football poet Sarah McCreadie will be among the performers at Football Pride 2025! ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Sarah joined the Wales women’s national team on their historic journey to UEFA Euro 2025, as the official team poet in Switzerland… /1

Did not have Phil Neville coming out strongly against homophobic chanting on my bingo card for this week. Story for @outsports.com on the “totally unacceptable” and repeated slurs chanted at Portland Timbers players, and the FIFA protocol not being followed. #LGBTQ #football #FvH2025

🙌 Let’s hear it for the fans! We’re partnering with Pride in Football, the UK’s alliance of LGBTQ+ and allies supporters groups, for Football Pride 🏟️ At the big event in Leicester on Friday 29 August, there’ll be a dedicated, fan-led discussion addressing the key issues /1

NEW: Stonewall says the Premier League’s decision to replace #RainbowLaces is part of the “natural ebb and flow” of the campaign. The PL will launch a new LGBTQ+ initiative in February. The FA is working through its own inclusion strategy, with the WSL also yet to confirm plans. For @outsports.com

📣 Another announcement! We’re looking forward to Jordan Burrow joining us at our big #LGBTQ football get-together in Leicester on Friday 29 August 🧡 The #IKissedaBoy star has been vocal on the importance of having welcoming and inclusive football and sports spaces /1

Really enjoyed chatting to the lovely @larsfellows.bsky.social for a new episode of the FvH Pod AND he’ll be with us for #FootballPride - check out the pod, and come join us in Leicester on the 29th