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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Needs to Resonate With Pro Sports -- Now

Four years into the Second World War, Lt. Carlton Skinner, the commander of the U.S. weather ship Sea Cloud in the North Atlantic, sent a memo up the Navy's chain of command. He requested that it allow him to start training black seamen, long relegated to menial tasks, for critical jobs reserved for white sailors. Skinner...

FIFA President Causes Stir With Gay Sex Comments for 2022 World Cup

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has a very simple message for those of you who might be interested in traveling to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup: "It's another culture and another religion, but in football we have no boundaries," said Blatter, who was in South Africa for the official closing of the 2010 World Cup. "We open...

Warriors to Host LGBT Night

The NBA and the gay community have somewhat of a sensitive past. While the other sports have been allowed to ignore sexual-preference issues by way of convenient silence (though they've had their own battles with special interest groups, to be sure), the NBA was not afforded such willful ignorance. John Amaechi made...

Amaechi Says There's Been a 'Lot of Tension' at the Olympics, Because, Um, You Know

Some pretty stout not-actually-allegations stemming from John Amaechi recently, via the Rocky Mountain News, via Marcel at SLAM, whereby he accuses Kobe Bryant and a bunch of other somewhat anonymous USA basketball types of homophobia. Or, if you want to take it further than that, some sort of sexist-profiling."It's been...

Tim Hardaway Sort of Wants Redemption

While John Amaechi continues to crusade for gay athletes and hairlessness, his foil Tim Hardaway is just trying to get his profesisonal life back on track. Following his virulent anti-gay comments and subsequent exile from All-Star weekend, Hardaway realized he needs to make amends. Sort of. If only for career reasons....

Background on John Amaechi

John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi OBE (; born November 26, 1970) is an English retired basketball player who currently works as a psychologist, educator and political activist in Europe and the United States.

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