LGBTQ Sports Podcast
1,155 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe highlight the stories of LGBTQ athletes, coaches and other people in sports who show us all that Courage Is Contagious.
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Media hits and misses in covering LGBTI Olympians. Let's hope week 2 is better.
August 11, 2016 19:30 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBThe Olympics are upon us, and everybody is talking about the gays. At least, that's what it feels like to us here at Outsports as our traffic has gone through the proverbial roof for the last week. It's no surprise. With almost 50 publicly out LGBTI athletes, and other out coaches and mentors, at the Olympics in Rio, there's more to celebrate on a day-to-day basis than ever before. There are so many athletes and so many events, we're having trouble keeping up. It isn't all good news, or eve...
Record number of openly gay, lesbian, bisexual Olympians in Rio
August 04, 2016 18:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBWhen WNBA star Elena Delle Donne came out publicly in a magazine interview as being in a same-sex relationship, she became the 44th openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and intersex athlete who will compete in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. Among these athletes are a record 11 men. We examine the impact of Delle Donne coming out, the overall state of LGBTI athletes at the Olympics and why no gay American male athletes are out. We also examine the medal prospects for Team LGBTI. Learn more about you...
A look at the Rio Summer Olympics a month away
July 07, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBThe 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio are a month away in Rio and they seem to be generating less buzz than normal. There have been so many problems that they might as well be called the Bummer Olympics. Is this a thing or will we all get excited as the Games draw closer and we focus on the out LGBT athletes who are participating? We look at the Games a month out. We also discuss the appropriate use of first names for transgender people in light of Sports Illustrated's cover story on Caitlyn Jenne...
Reviewing Pride month and looking ahead to 2016 second-half stories
June 30, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThere were so many LGBT sports headlines for Pride month this year. Many Major League Baseball teams held Pride nights in honor of the LGBT community. The NBA created a line of Pride-inspired shirts and then marched in the New York City Pride parade with the WNBA. And then there was the reaction by the sports world to the terrorist attack on the LGBT community in Orlando. We talk about the moves that resonated most with us and look ahead to the headlines we're expecting in the second half o...
The sports world reacts to the Orlando massacre in a gay bar
June 16, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBMany people, teams and leagues across the sports world have reacted to the murder of 49 people who were killed in Orlando for being in a gay bar. From tweets by Seahawks punter Jon Runyon and former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal to moments of silence at Major League Baseball games, the tragedy has been felt in the sports world this week. While many of the reactions have featured rainbow flags and messages about pride, precious few people in sports have directly addressed the fact that the shoote...
The state of gays in sports during Pride Month
June 02, 2016 19:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBJune is Pride Month, when LGBT equality is celebrated in cities around the world and out people in all walks of life share their joy in being their authentic selves. This is true in sports, where great strides have been made in the last decade. But in one area, the closet door remains firmly shut — top level men's sports. It's 2016 and there are no openly gay players in the NFL, NBA, NHL or MLB. The real action is happening in college and high schools, since the pros are a lost cause. Learn...
Is it damaging to claim homophobia when there is none? Plus, Outsports Reunion.
May 26, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBWhen the San Diego Padres mishandled the National Anthem of the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus last Saturday night, the team sparked a backlash from the LGBT community targeting them and Major League Baseball. Cries of "homophobia" rang from coast to coast. Two days later it was clear homophobia had absolutely nothing to do with the incident that was the boneheaded mistake of a DJ and some mishandling by people with the team. We talk about whether it's appropriate or effective to claim homophobia...
Trans athlete wins in North Carolina; where gay jokes are a sign of acceptance
May 19, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBI have mixed feelings," Chris Mosier, a transgender athlete said after clinching a spot on the U.S. National Team in the duathlon. "It feels great to have made the US National Team while in North Carolina - I earned a spot to represent Team USA in a state with policies that intentionally target transgender people for differential treatment and exposes us to potential violence and harassment." We discuss Mosier's win and what it means. We also talk about the one place where gay jokes are acce...
What is the statute of limitations on anti-gay comments and homophobic tweets?
May 05, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThe homophobic and anti-gay tweets of a couple prominent professional athletes surfaced this week. The catch? The tweets were from several years ago. So when Eagles draftee Wendell Smallwood had to face sudden questions about tweets from his high school days he deleted his account and dismissed the tweets as thoughts from his youth. Trail Blazers player Al-Farouq Aminu has seemingly gotten away with his tweets of six years ago by simply deleting them without comment. What is the statute of...
Curt Schilling fired for trans slur; NHL player suspended for gay slur
April 21, 2016 19:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBFormer baseball pitcher Curt Schilling reposted a nasty meme against transgender people in reaction to the new anti-LGBT law in North Carolina. ESPN fired him two days later. Schilling was unapologetic. Meanwhile, Andrew Shaw of the Chicago Blackhawks yelled "fucking faggot" when he was sent to the penalty box late in a playoff game against the St. Louis Blues. He first said he didn't remember what he said, then apologized the next day. He was suspended by the NHL for one game. We will have ...
North Carolina law and trans bathroom use aren't going away. Outsports Reunion.
April 14, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBWhile North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory thought a toothless executive order would "fix" the controversy around North Carolina's anti-LGBT law HB2, all it did was infuriate LGBT people and their supporters. Now the calls on the NBA and others to move events out of the state are broadening, and people in sports are being asked to speak up. One of the people who decided to weigh in was golfer Webb Simpson, who offered a pretty uninformed perspective on transgender people using bathrooms and ...
Sports and LGBT rights -- Charles Barkley beats out Steph Curry
April 07, 2016 19:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWhen North Carolina passed a bill that denied LGBT people protections, it caused a dilemma for the NBA -- should the league move the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte? Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors was wishy-washy on the issue, basically saying nothing. Thankfully, former player and now analyst Charles Barkley is more forceful: "I think the NBA should move the All-Star game from there next year. As a black person I'm against any form of discrimination, against whites, Hispanics, ga...
The repercussions of North Carolina legalizing discrimination against LGBT peopl
March 31, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBWhen the Governor of North Carolina signed HB2 last week, he not only legalized discrimination against LGBT in the state, but he prevented any city or county from protecting LGBT people locallly. This was in response to efforts in the city of Charlotte to create protections for gays, lesbians and transgender people. Now there is a media-relations firestorm surrounding the state, and the sports world is thrust into the middle of it. While the NCAA and pro sports leagues have talked tough abou...
Gay NHL writer Chris Hine on why he came out
March 24, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB"As a 29-year-old gay man, I spent the better part of two decades agonizing over that question [Do you like men?] and finally, when I was 20, came to accept that the answer was 'Yes.' It took another two years before I could tell my family, another year after that before I mustered up the courage to tell my closest friends and, well, six years after that to finally write about it in the Chicago Tribune." With these words, Chris Hine, the Chicago Blackhawks beat writer for the Chicago Tribune...
Baseball, Cardinals react to harsh anti-gay locker room language
March 17, 2016 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBFormer Minor League baseball player Tyler Dunnington opened up to Outsports about the last couple years of his life, which have included leaving baseball and coming out as a gay man. Those couple years also included hearing some pretty bad anti-gay comments from teammates in the St. Louis Cardinals organization and a coach in college. The story renewed a national conversation about appropriate language for the locker room. It also created a firestorm in St. Louis, pitting anti-gay people tir...
Growing up gay as a rodeo cowboy in South Dakota
March 10, 2016 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBPJ Painter grew up on a ranch in South Dakota. The nearest town had a population of 400 people and was a 25-mile drive on mostly gravel roads. He competed in rodeo because that is what young men in that area did. He was raised to think being gay was detestable and an abomination but when he came out, he got nothing but support. When he told his story on Outsports, Painter never expected the response -- 14,000 Facebook shares and more than 1,000 messages. We talk to him about growing up gay in...
Matt 'Money' Cage on being an out beacon of hope in pro wrestling
March 03, 2016 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBWhen professional wrestler Matt 'The Money' Cage came out publicly almost a year ago in June of 2015, he thought he might be a little blip in the national conversation about gay athletes in sports. Instead, he became a beacon for so many LGBT people - in sports and outside of sports - struggling with their sexual orientation. We talk to Matt about his coming out experience, but more importantly his being out experience. Has it affected his professional relationships in any way? Have other w...
Steve Kerr is right that more gay athletes need to come out
February 25, 2016 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MB"I think a lot more athletes and people in the sports world will need to come out before we really see the change." Those are the words of Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr when asked about acceptance of gay people in sports. We examine the conumdrum of why more pro athletes don't come out. Is it fear? Media attention? Locker room dynamics? We also explore the often tone-deaf coverage the gays in sports debate gets from the mainstream media, where even getting the names right is hard. ...
Manny Pacquiao's wild week of offending gays
February 18, 2016 20:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBIt's been quite a week for Manny Pacquiao. The boxer started it off by saying gay people are worse than animals because they have sex with people of the same gender. Then when Nike dropped its endorsement deal with him, he posted a Bible verse on Instragram saying gay people should be put to death. He deleted the post, but not before 18,000 people liked it and a media outlet picked up on it. The damage was done. We analyze the steps that led to this place for Pacquiao, and whether there's an...
Gay college football player tells his story; Outsports at the Super Bowl
February 11, 2016 21:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBOur guest is Luke McAvoy, a defensive lineman for the University of Minnesota from 2011-14. He wrestled with a secret for years -- he was gay. McAvoy hid it fearing rejection but when he summoned the courage to come out, he was met with acceptance and support from teammates. "It was the acceptance from my teammates that I will remember," he writes. "Being part of a family that did just about everything together for four years was amazing. Being part of a family that turned out to be so much ...
Brandon Marshall's fingernails and the power of football
January 21, 2016 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBWhy was it so cool that NFL wide receiver Brandon Marshall had his fingernails painted by Stephen Colbert? Football players aren't supposed to do things like this. Yet more and more we see barriers breaking down in big-time football, including the NFL. This week we had a former running back at Montana State come out on Outsports. Brandon Davis talked about being afraid to be his true self at Louisiana Tech and finding a home with the rugby team at Montana State after leaving football. The Bu...
Gay couples on pro sports kiss cams
January 14, 2016 20:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBLongtime Los Angeles Kings fans Brad Parr and Andy Evans got their moment on the team's kiss cam and it meant a lot to them. "I wanted to let you know the L.A. Kings were awesome and put my boyfriend Andy and me on kiss cam -- to loud cheers from a crowd of 18,230. I'm pretty sure that this was the first time the Kings had ever had a same-sex couple on Kiss Cam, and I don't think it happens very often in any sport." We have long been critical of kiss cams that make fun of same sex couples bu...
Is homophobia rooted in a "hatred of women"?
January 07, 2016 20:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBWhen New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was taunted on the field several weeks ago with gay slurs, it left many wondering about the root of homophobia in the NFL and why Beckham retaliated with dangerous, potentially life-threatening hits. On MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry show last week, Jamil Smith of the New Republic said the root of homophobia is a hatred of women. Jamil joins us as we explore the connections between homophobia and sexism and how far we can go when connecting...
Odell Beckham, gay slurs and homophobia in NFL
December 29, 2015 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBOdell Beckham of the New York Giants was suspended a game after repeated altercations with members of the Carolina Panthers. After, reports said that Beckham was subjected to gay slurs before the game and ex-players said the receiver has been subjected to such slurs all season. The matter was dropped at Beckham's appeal but many questions remain. Were slurs used? How frequently" Why were they not brought up at the hearing? What is it about such slurs that allow them to still carry a lot of w...
The open 'secret' of some gay people in sports. Plus, NBA's handling of Rondo
December 17, 2015 20:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThree men in sports chose to come out publicly this week: NBA referee Bill Kennedy, Dodgers executive Erik Braverman and Connecticut Sun head coach Curt Miller. Each of them has a different story, but they all have one thing in common: Many people in their profession and their personal lives knew they were gay. So why did they come out to the media now? And what do they hope to accomplish? Kennedy's coming out was in response to Rajon Rondo calling him a gay slur multiple times. The NBA firs...
A gay college athlete overcomes depression, helps at-risk LGBT youth
December 10, 2015 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBPhil Claudy had lost all hope of accepting his sexuality. But running saved his life and now he wants to help other LGBT people struggling with depression. The Dartmouth athlete battled severe depression, which parlayzed him to the point of considering suicide. But through running he learned to accept himself and his sexuality. In November, he ran the Philadelphia Marathon and raised $8,000 for the Trevor Project, which helps LGBT youth who are at risk of suicide. We ask Claudy about his stru...
Gay pro hockey referee comes out
December 03, 2015 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBAndrea Barone is working toward his dream of being an NHL ref. But he first had to find peace with himself. "I don’t want anyone to feel as alone and depressed as I did," he writes in a first-person account for Outsports. Barone, 26, is the first openly gay referee in pro hockey and he talks about fitting into a culture that prizes masculinity. He dealt with his own homophobia and over time learned to accept himself. He is now out and wants to be a role model for others in the sport. Learn m...
MLB's efforts to find out LGBT team executives. Plus, more Gus Kenworthy.
November 19, 2015 20:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBMajor League Baseball is recruiting LGBT people for team front offices, and they want you. Billy Bean and MLB exec Wendy Lewis have not been quiet about their efforts to ensure opportunities for out LGBT people to find careers in baseball as they have been reaching out to the community about their upcoming Diversity Business Summit in March. Our article this week highlighted their efforts and introduced people to two current out gay MLB team execs - Orioles' Greg Bader and Nationals' Steve Re...
Outsports weekly LGBT sports podcast: Gay umpire Dale Scott
November 12, 2015 20:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBDale Scott celebrated his 30th year as a Major League Baseball umpire, and his first as an openly gay man. Scott talks about how little was made of his sexuality this season, and why that's a good thing. "I am extremely grateful that Major League Baseball has always judged me on my work and nothing else and that's the way it should be." Scott also realizes the power of coming out based on the amount of email he received from other LGBT people thanking him for his honesty. Learn more about yo...
Houston legalizes discrimination, and the NFL and NCAA aren't going anywhere
November 05, 2015 18:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBHouston voters this week overwhelmingly voted to end Houston's equal rights ordinance, which gave non-discrimination protections to LGBT people, among others. With 61% of the vote, it's clear that voters in Houston very much want the ability to discriminate against LGBT people, particularly the T. Immediately there were calls for the NCAA and NFL to move their upcoming men's Final Four and Super Bowl. Yet both organizations very quickly said, "nah, we're good." Despite both groups doing som...
Pro soccer players coming out? Gay N.C. athlete. NY Giants build inclusion.
October 29, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThere are rumors swirling around the English Premier League that gay pro soccer players may be coming out publicly soon. Should we believe the speculation? And have these kinds of rumors panned out in the past? The New York Giants have been ahead of the curve on LGBT issues for almost a decade. Now they add a You Can Play video with several Giants players to their inclusion portfolio. We first met Harrison Wilkerson last year when he was still in high school, the star kicker of his school's...
Olympic skier comes out; Mets star disagrees with 'homosexual lifestyle'
October 22, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBGus Kenworthy made a name for himself by winning a medal in freestyle skiing at the Sochi Olympics and then saving five stray puppies. Now, he comes out as gay, saying he doesn't want to hide any more. His story is a reminder of the shame of the closet. Also, New York Mets star Daniel Murphy is setting baseball records for playoff home runs but we remember him as a person who said that he doesn't agree with the "homosexual lifestyle." Should he be applauded for his honesty or critcized? ...
Being gay in a football locker room, with the son of a coach
October 15, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBBobby Petrino Jr. knows what it's like to be a gay football player in a high-pressure environment. As the son of a head college football coach, Petrino Jr. excelled on the field until an injury ended his career. At the same time, he was wrestling with the realization that he was gay. He is now publicly out and he discusses life in the locker room as a gay player. After coming out publicly last month, Petrino has gotten nothing but support. "I wish I could go back and tell my younger self th...
Men's college basketball has its first out gay coach in Bryant's Chris Burns
October 08, 2015 19:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBChris Burns, an assistant men's basketball coach at Bryant University, has come out as gay, making him the first publicly out men's college basketball coach. Burns shared a personal story on Outsports and USA Today did a feature story interviewing Burns and others at Bryant. It's been a long time coming for Burns, who has been dating men since college. It's also a big deal for the coaching profession in general, as Burns has broken a key barrier in sports. And, like virtually every male athl...
When should gay college athletes come out?
October 01, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBOutsports ran a letter from a closeted Division I college basketball player who is gay, who is wrestling with whether he should come out. "I would like other people to see another gay athlete successfully playing in Division 1 athletics. I would like for a teenager battling the same things I struggled with to see that things will work out and to not stress about something that seems so major but is really something minor. I would like to see the LGBT community grow within athletics." Yet he ...
Do Kiss Cams promote homophobia and sexual assault?
September 24, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBKiss Cams have been a staple of fan entertainment at sporting events in the United States for years. You know the drill: Somebody in a control booth directs a camera onto two people in the stadium or arena and those two people are pressured to kiss one another. It's used to highlight romantic couples, but it's also regularly used as a source of comedy, often taking advantage of allegedly uncomfortable situations to ellicit laughs and cheers from the audience. Recently the Kiss Cam has come ...
College football player comes out as gay on eve of opener
September 17, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBMason Darrow has been embraced by the Princeton football team since he told them he’s gay. He has decided to come out publicly in the days before the season opener. It's a different strategy from what is normally suggsted -- that an athlete wait until the offseason. We examine Darrow's story and how it has unified his team and made him truly happy for the first time. We also look at a survey showing 34 of 35 NHL players would accept a gay teammate. So why doesn't anyone come out? Learn more...
LGBT people are living openly across sports & recent comings out show how open
September 10, 2015 19:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBWe always talk about the dominoes falling as LGBT athletes, coaches and members of the media come out publicly. Everyone time someone shares their true self with the world, more LGBT people - and, frankly, many others - feel the strength to be true to themselves and the people around them. In the last week, a couple major sports institutions wrote another LGBT chapter in their histories. ESPN's NBA commentator Israel Gutierrez has been struggling for a while with how to come out publicly. He...
Outsports take a gay look at the 2015 NFL season
September 03, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBOutsports began in 1999 as a vehicle for Outsports' founders Cyd and Jim to discuss the NFL and we've been covering the league ever since. Last year we reached a milestone by being credentialed for the Super Bowl. On this Podcast we make our bold predictions for the NFL season. Will Peyton Manning shine or fade? Can the Patriots repeat? Why the Seahawks are in for a rough season, plus many more. We also look at the gay issues surrounding the league. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po...
Andrew Goldstein's big 10 years. Homophobia in the referee world.
August 27, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBIn 2004, then-Dartmouth lacrosse goalie Andrew Goldstein wrote a powerful piece for Outsports about coming out to his lacrosse team. Since then, Andrew has played professional lacrosse, moved to Los Angeles, got married and is now on his way to curing cancer. Earlier this year he met Braeden, a young lacrosse player who was struggling with being gay. Goldstein knew he had to do something to help Braeden. This Sunday, Aug. 30, ESPN will air the story of Andrew, Braeden and the Courage Game tha...
Gay baseball and rugby players come out; Michael Sam leaves football
August 20, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBIt's been a big week for gays in pro sports: --Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team, abruptly quit football for now when he left the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL. Is this the end of the line for Sam's dreams of playing pro football. --Minor League baseball had a first when Dabid Denson came out as gay for the Milwaukee Brewers rookie minor team. Denson is the first gay player affiliated with a Major League Team. --Keegan Hirst became the first openly gay British...
NFL, a Year After Michael Sam Came Out
August 06, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBLast year at this time, Michael Sam was in an NFL training camp and appeared to be on track to be the first openly gay player. A year later he is in the Canadian Football League and the NFL seems a long way away. Has the "gay moment" passed in the NFL? What more needs to be done? We also examine former NFL running back Craig James' lawsuit claiming his religious beliefs were violated for opposing same-sex marriage. Finally, since Outsports started with an NFL post 16 years ago, we will disc...
Is fear of the media really keeping gay pro athletes in the closet?
July 30, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBA recent report said that two gay NFL players are refusing to come out publicly as gay because they don't want a lot of media attention for any kind of big announcement. It's an interesting revelation that both reflects and belies what we think we know about professional athletes. On the one hand they want all the attention they can get to maximize exposure. Exposure means more of the all-mighty dollar that so many of them seek in the short span of their careers. On the flip side, we often h...
Caitlyn Jenner, Michael Sam, Troy Aikman, young LGBT athletes
July 16, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBThis week's podcast hits a variety of topics - Caitlyn Jenner accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs and the mini-controversy surrounding it. We look at what her speecg means for trans rights. We also ask when Michael Sam will finally see playing time for the Montrel Alouettes. Did he make a mistake in leaving the team? We examine the continuing fascination with 20-year-old rumors about Troy Aikman's sexuality, which still draws readers to Outsports. It's also been a summer w...
Women's World Cup and its lasting impact on women's sports
July 09, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThe Women's World Cup brought some much-needed attention to female athletes and LGBT people in sports. The final was the most-watched soccer broadcast in American TV history. Plus, with several out players - namely Megan Rapinoe and Abby Wambach - and an out head coach, the American team embraced its diversity. Will the event have a lasting effect on the perceptions of women's sports and LGBT athletes? With so much talk about women's sports lately, Dave Zirin has written a piece about his re...
Being openly gay in a 'bro' sport
June 25, 2015 19:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBMen's water polo and rowing are two of the sports most associated with hypermasculine, bro jocks. Being openly gay in these sports can be problematic. We talk with two openly gay athletes who have forged their path and been embraced. Noah Ratliff is a water polo player from Oregon who just graduated high school. He is on the Junior Olympic water polo team and will play in college. His coming out was heralded by USA Water Polo. Chris Kelley, an Ithica rower, was outed at a party and then str...
Is Michael Sam's pro football career over?
June 18, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBMichael Sam shocked everyone when he left the training camp of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League a day before their first preseason game. The openly gay defensive lineman who became famous after coming out prior to the NFL Draft has not spoken about why he left the team. The Alouettes have placed him on the suspended list, but are keeping the door open for his return. We will look at what Sam has done and the ramifications for his career and the gay sports movement. Lear...
Caitlyn Jenner coverage gets some grades
June 04, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBThis podcast is brought to you by AT&T. Mobilizing Your World. The Vanity Fair cover featuring Caitlyn Jenner certainly got some attention this week. The former Olympic decathlon champion completed her public transition by appearing in a gorgeous photo, shot by Annie Liebovitz. The reaction from the media and the public was quite positive. Yet there were some hiccups along the way. Awareness of trans issues lags behind the understanding of sexual orientation in America - some people were s...
College coaches, religion and gay rights
May 28, 2015 18:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBClemson University football coach Dabo Swinney caused some controversy this week when he was to be honored by a South Carolina lobbying group opposed to gay rights and same-sex marriage. A petition was started urging him to cancel and he did on his own days later, saying he didn't want to be a distraction and did not want to seem to endorse all the group's views. It raises the question of what responsibility a coach has to a diverse student body and how that might clash with his beliefs. Lea...
Christian colleges thrust into LGBT-athlete conversation
May 21, 2015 19:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBToday's episode is brought to you by AT&T. Mobilizing Your World. If 2014 was the year of the LGBT athlete on Outsports, 2015 is becoming the year of the Christian college. Just this past week two stories have developed that again put the policies and practices of religious institutions in the spotlight. Hours after dismissing a priest for supporting the NOH8 campaign, Seton Hall signed openly gay basketball player Derrick Gordon, leaving many to wonder about double standards and how Gordon ...