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NHL Refuses to Stand Up for LGBT Fans

The NHL needs to follow the leads of other sports leagues, look at the video evidence of the Simmonds incident, and take decisive action.

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GUEST POST: Another Tackle in the World of Homophobic Sports

Rev. Irene Monroe discusses the implications of Kwame Harris's decision to come out on national television.

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Rutgers must fire basketball coach Mike Rice after violent, anti-gay tirade made public

GLAAD is calling for Rutgers University to fire basketball coach Mike Rice, after video surfaced of him using anti-gay slurs to berate players at practices, while being physically violent.

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Snapshots of our Work

Wonder what we’re up to at GLAAD? Be sure to check out GLAAD Blog each week for updates about our latest work to build support for LGBT equality through news, entertainment and online media.

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Ex-NFL player Kwame Harris comes out as gay in CNN interview

Former professional football player Kwame Harris acknowledges that he is gay on CNN Newsroom. His interview reflects the hardships faced by an NFL player who identifies as gay and begs the question of what will need to happen for an active NFL player to feel comfortable coming out. In the interview with Coy Wire, Harris discussed whether he thought about coming out in the NFL, the implications that would have entailed, and what it was like to be a closeted professional athlete.

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New Documentary hopes to Explore the Coming Out Process for LGBT Identifying Athletes

Documentarian Michiel Thomas explores the coming out process for for LGBT athletes through film, and hopes that his new project will provide the opportunity to give answers to the questions of stereotypes and misunderstandings about being an LGBT-identifying person in sports.

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GLAAD, You Can Play, NY Atty Gen. Schneiderman calling on NFL to address LGBT issues immediately

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a statement demanding that the NFL investigate whether teams asked prospects about their sexual orientation during the league's pre-draft scouting combine.

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LGBT Pioneers Abound in Women's Tennis History

With recent discussion involving the possibility of a gay athlete coming out in American men's professional sports, one need only look to women's tennis to find examples of LGBT pioneers.

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Attention sports radio: when covering trans athletes, reign in your uninformed hosts

When news broke widely of female MMA fighter Fallon Fox coming out as trans, we figured it was only a matter of time before the incident reports started rolling in about sports radio. And sure enough, last night and this morning they started.

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