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Carl Nassib’s Game-Changing Tackle Leads To Raiders Win

Defensive end Carl Nassib at post-game press conference after making game-changing tackle leading to Las Vegas Raiders victory

Carl Nassib, already making history as the first out gay man to play in a regular season NFL game, was a game-changer in the Las Vegas Raiders dramatic 33-27 win in overtime Monday night against the Baltimore Ravens. Continue reading “Carl Nassib’s Game-Changing Tackle Leads To Raiders Win”

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News Round-Up: August 9, 2021

Team LGBTQ is doing well at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Some news items you might have missed: • Outsports: The queer-centric sports website tracked the achievements of the 180 out athletes at the Tokyo Summer Olympics reimagining them as a unified team. Had they been their own country, Team LGBTQ would have finished 7th, ahead of France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Brazil, taking home 11 Gold, 12 Silver, and 9 Bronze medals. Continue reading “News Round-Up: August 9, 2021”

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Outsports: Olympic Rankings If LGBTQ Athletes Were One Team

Outsports is following the progress of out LGBTQ athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games

At last count, there are 179 out LGBTQ athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games (triple the number at the 2016 Rio Games). And the good folks at Outsports are following along with an imaginary premise of how ‘Team LGBTQ’ would rank if they were all on one team representing one country. Continue reading “Outsports: Olympic Rankings If LGBTQ Athletes Were One Team”

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News Round-Up: June 28, 2021

(Courtesy of Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)
Some news items you might have missed: • NYC Pride: It was nice to see Pride events return to NYC this past weekend. Rainbows were everywhere in the city from Rockefeller Center (above) to Washington Square and everywhere else. And ABC News covered the entire 3-hour parade! You can watch it here. • CNN: California will ban state-funded travel to five new states (Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia) over their “discriminatory” LGBTQ laws, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday, citing the importance of “aligning our dollars with our values.” • Right Wing Watch: Right-wing pastor Greg Locke used his sermon on Sunday to allege that there are child-trafficking “tunnels” under the Capitol and White House and accuse Joe Biden, Oprah Winfrey, and Tom Hanks of being “a bunch of pedophiles.” This is a seriously hot cup of crazy. Hit the play button.

• TMZ: In a recent interview praising Las Vegas Raider Carl Nassib for coming out, former NFL player Bruce Smith said there was a gay player (maybe two) on the 1990s Buffalo Bills teams but it “didn’t matter to us.” • NY Daily News: 24 people at a Sydney, Australia birthday party tested positive for the COVID delta variant. Only 6 party attendees — health care workers — were spared. Only those 6 were vaccinated. • Twitter: Donald Trump Jr., son of ‘the former guy,’ posted a wild, slurring, disjointed rant against President Joe Biden that careened from claims about hacking McDonald’s to Biden giving the nuclear football to Putin. The Twitterverse didn’t know what to think of the seemingly drunken/stoned performance.