Category: Queer Up Sports

Out British diver Tom Daley won his first Olympic gold medal on Monday with diving partner Matty Lee in the men’s synchronized 10-meter platform in Tokyo. Daley, 27, won Bronze medals at the London 2012

Seventeen-year-old Lydia Jacoby of Seward became an Olympic champion in dramatic fashion Monday in Japan to become the first American woman to win a gold medal in swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was

These are set to be the queerest Games on record, with more than 160 openly LGBTQ+ athletes competing. According to numbers compiled by Outsports, the United States has the most out athletes at these Olympics:

A 21-year-old Irish Olympic gymnast has dispelled a rumor that athletes’ beds at the Tokyo Olympics were designed to prevent them from getting too frisky with one another. Thank you, Rhys McClenaghan, for going the

Nashville Predators hockey player Luke Prokop celebrated his new contract with the National Hockey League this week by coming out of the closet as a gay man. No NHL player, active or retired, has ever

More than 120 out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary athletes will compete in the Tokyo Olympics, making this year’s Games the most inclusive in history, according to a new report compiled by news

Edward Gal and Hans Peter Minderhoud, who have been in a relationship for years, will be competing together in the team event for dressage at the Olympics this summer for the Dutch team. The two

Celebrated American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson — who famously thanked her girlfriend after placing first in the 100-meter women’s sprint event at the Olympic track and field trials last month — will not be on the

As Pride Month comes to a close, the NFL has released a new commercial that makes clear its support and embrace of the LGBTQ+ community. The 30-second spot begins with the line, “Football is gay”

Transgender athlete CeCe Telfer won’t be able to compete at the US Olympic trials due to being ‘ineligible’. The runner had been hoping to take part in the women’s 400-meter hurdles, but she hasn’t met