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Various celebrities and politicians are issuing hateful, transphobic remarks about the Algerian boxer competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee says it plans to stop any athlete from showing support of LGBT Russians at the Sochi Winter Games.
Responding to the International Olympic Committee's request for "clarification" about how Russia's anti-LGBT laws will affect Olympic athletes at the Winter Games in Sochi next year, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs today issued a statement confirming that LGBT athletes and spectators will be safe — as long as they don't discuss or disclose their orientation.
The International Olympic Committee has made its decision in the choice of adding two events to the 2016 Summer Games, and it’s gotten my lesbian and feminist dander way up. The committee said it was a challenging choice of baseball against softball, golf against roller sports, squash vs. karate vs. rugby.
The United States Olympic Committee announced that it has expanded its existing nondiscrimination policy to include protections for sexual orientation.
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The Olympic ideal is to set aside disagreements every four years, but one division has some LGBT activists calling for certain countries to be expelled.
There may only be six out athletes at Sochi, but they are making a good showing!
The internet is CACKLING over the possibility that the Olympic gold medal winner could take down Musk and Rowling!
Women killed it in sports this year!
"The athletes who have the most to derive from it" should be the ones to decide if a boycott of the Winter Olympic in Sochi, Russia is appropriate, says the out tennis legend.
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz says the IOC should have made a better choice than Russia for the games, while LGBT athlete ally Hudson Taylor gives a glimpse into what it's like to be gay in Sochi.
Megan Rapinoe says she's been playing better since she came out. So much so, that she helped the U.S. Women's soccer team win a gold medal Thursday in the final game against Japan. While efforts have been made to ensure that gay athletes competing at the Olympic games in London this summer feel welcome and safe, the 2014 winter games in Sochi, Russia may prove difficult to provide the same conditions.
I like a good boycott. Chick-fil-A's CEO is an unabashed antigay donor? Fine, I don't need his deep-fried, sodium-chicken anyway. We even un-registered from Target for my 2010 wedding and switched to Bed Bath & Beyond because the CEO had donated to an antigay organization. The spouse and I are gangster like that. Quite frankly, I can thoroughly live the rest of my life without Russian vodka. I'm more of a craft beer or tiny winery type of gal, anyway.
Billie Jean King made it to Sochi in time for Closing Ceremonies.
Gold medalist marathon runner Grete Waitz died at age 57 at a hospital in her native Oslo on Tuesday after fighting cancer for six years. Throughout her exemplary career she competed in the 1972 and '76 Olympics in the 1,500 meters. She one a silver medal behind Joan Benoit in the first women's Olympic marathon at the 1984 Los Angeles games.
Russian president Vladimir Putin told national sports officials today that his administration will 'do everything' to make sure LGBT athletes and spectators are 'comfortable' at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Now wouldn't this be nice?
In an effort to raise awareness about growing hostility towards LGBT people in Russia, activists protested outside the Russian Consulate in San Francisco on August 3, reports ABC.
One of my favorite Olympic sports is synchronized swimming. I discovered the sport when, as a child, I stumbled upon the 1952 film Million Dollar Mermaid with Hollywood star Esther Williams.
