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Steve Buckley, Sportswriter, Comes Out; Other Famous Gay Sports Professionals

In a column today titled "Welcome to My Coming-Out Party," Boston Herald sportswriter Steve Buckley announced that he is gay. In the highly personal piece, he writes, "I've put this off long enough. I haven't been fair to my family, my friends or my co-workers. And I certainly haven't been fair to myself: For too many...

Mike Penner, Journalist Who Changed Genders, Dead in Apparent Suicide

Mike Penner, the Los Angeles Times sports writer who declared himself a transsexual and wrote under a woman's name but soon switched back to a male identity, has died in an apparent suicide.Penner was the subject of news stories around the world when he said in 2007 that he didn't considere himself a man and that he would...

Background on Mike Penner

Mike Penner (October 10, 1957 – November 27, 2009) was a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times. Penner self-identified as being a transsexual in a 2007 column and returned from a vacation writing with the name Christine Daniels, before resuming his original name in 2008 and then committing suicide in 2009.

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