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Groundbreaking Nike LGBT Sports Summit takes on bullying, homophobia and transphobia in sports

SDGLN Staff
June 19th, 2012

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Many of the nation’s top LGBT sports leaders joined Nike representatives at Nike World Headquarters for the first-ever Nike LGBT Sports Summit to combat bullying and anti-LGBTQ bias and discrimination in sports.

Advocates and organizations pooled their expertise and strengths over four days — June 14 to June 17 — to develop a unified plan to end harassment and discrimination against LGBT athletes and coaches in kindergarten through high school, college, recreational sports and professional sports.

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VIDEO: NFL players speak up as allies for gay athletes

Alexandra Bolles - GLAAD National News Media Intern
May 31st, 2012

A dozen professional football players were asked this week about their thoughts on gay athletes and expressed unanimous support to Outsports.com -- a story that has been picked up by mainstream media outlets, including CBS, NBC, Washington Post, and the NFL itself.

First openly gay pro athlete issues a challenge to all sports

Cyd Zeigler, Jr. -- OUTSports.com
January 25th, 2012

When we put together our list of the 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history, we knew we’d probably overlook something.

Maybe an Austrian hurdler came out in the Eighties, or some Slovakian soccer player had said something horribly homophobic and damaging. And we may have missed something like that.

OUTSports.com to begin tracking 100 "moments" in LGBT-sports history

SDGLN Staff
July 7th, 2011

The year 2011 is just barely half over, but it will already go down in the LGBT history books, according to Cyd Zeigler, Jr., cofounder of OUTSports.com.

"If there is a tipping point in the long history of gay sports, 2011 is it," Zeigler wrote in his "Jock Talk Blog" this week, when announcing the list.

It certainly has been a year of firsts, but it is not the only year of firsts -- or memorable moments -- when it comes to LGBT Sports.

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