Featured events


7-9 September 2012
Brussels Games
Brussels

Brussels Gay Sports will offer a weekend of fun and fairplay in the capital of Europe, with volleyball, swimming, badminton, and tennis, as well as fitness and hiking.

Learn more HERE.
26-28 October 2012
QueergamesBern
Bern, Switzerland

The success of the first edition of the QueergamesBern proved the need for an LGBT multisport event in Switzerland. This year will be even bigger, with badminton, bowling, running, walking, floorball.

Learn more HERE.
17-20 January 2013
Sin City Shootout
Las Vegas
The 7th Sin City Shootout will feature softball, ice hockey, tennis, wrestling, basketball, dodgeball, bodybuilding and basketball.

Learn more HERE.

13-16 June 2013
IGLFA Euro Cup
Dublin
After this year's edition in Budapest at the EuroGames, the IGLFA Euro Cup heads to Dublin for 2013, hosted by the Dublin Devils and the Dublin Phoenix Tigers.

Learn more HERE.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Portrait of Glenn Burke

An athletic phenom rises out of poverty in Oakland to professional baseball stardom only to end up a wasted crack addict. The failure was not Glenn’s but that of little minds.

Funny thing about heroes; we can forgive minor flaws, providing they don’t violate our limited moral underpinnings. Glenn was never able to realize his full athletic potential because he became the first professional baseball player to declare his homosexuality.

Baseball is the most masculine of sports: fundamental indolent, full of nonsensical traditions, overblown preening, repulsive habits, and laiden with intolerance.

Continue reading HERE.

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