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NEW YORK (AP) -- Brittney Griner had a busy WNBA offseason. She played in China, vacationed in Miami and watched from courtside while favorite player LeBron James beat her hometown Houston Rockets.

Canadian Olympic pole vaulter Shawn Barber took to Facebook on Monday to come out as "gay and proud!"

(WM) Longtime Cincinnati Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman has been suspended indefinitely after using an anti-gay slur live on air Aug. 19.

Officials from the New York Police Department are currently investigating the death of Michael Wright, a former player for the New York Knicks, saying he was possibly was killed by someone he met on the gay dating app Grindr, the New York Daily News reports.

(WM) The Fed Cup is changing its name to honor tennis great Billie Jean King, the woman whose lifelong battle for equality and social justice laid the foundation for generations that followed.

(WM) The U.S. Department of Education is threatening to withhold some federal funding from Connecticut school districts if they follow a state policy that allows transgender girls to compete as girls in high school sports.

(SS) The Florida House voted Wednesday to block transgender children from playing on sports teams that align with their gender.

He may not have come out during his time in the professional realm, but now he wants to tell the world.

Instead of facing ten years in prison, Marshall University running back Steward Butler may only get up to two years following his recent alleged attack on a gay couple.

Read about Devin Ibañez coming out as gay, Kurtis Gabriel showing off his Pride skates, and Twitter users blasting Elon Musk over a comment he made about gender pronouns.

This week read about the Biden administration ending the support of a lawsuit to ban trans athletes participating in girls' sports in Connecticut, Jodie Foster kissing her wife when she won a Golden Globe award, and Hasbro rebranding Mr. Potato Head to Potato Head to be more gender-neutral.

(AP) Former Drake assistant Courtney Graham has sued Bulldogs coach Jennie Baranczyk and the university, claiming she was forced to resign after her homosexuality became public.

Palm Beach County ushered in another successful LGBT event at the end of March with the 11th annual Lexus International Gay Polo Tournament, hosted by the Gay Polo League (GPL).

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — More than 100,000 members of an international gay rights group have sent messages to the IOC urging changes to ensure that future Olympic host countries do not have discriminatory laws on their books.

Florida’s Legislature is poised to ban transgender girls and women — kindergarten through college-age — from competing throughout the state with cisgender female teammates.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City group is making plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a national gathering of LGBT activists that is credited with helping to kick off the gay rights movement.

(CNN) English rugby has been praised for clamping down on homophobia in the sport, though a leading gay referee warns there is still work to be done in eradicating the problem.

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law that bans offensive trademarks in a ruling that is expected to help the Washington Redskins in their legal fight over the team name.

The Miami Marlins are stepping up to the plate and showing their pride.

The Minnesota State High School League made some changes Wednesday to a proposal that would set guidelines for transgender student-athletes in high school sports after tabling the plan earlier this year.

When the Equality Act, a sweeping piece of LGBT civil rights legislation, had a Senate hearing on March 17, opponents made clear they are trying to use fear of transgender people as a way to defeat the bill.

BILLINGS, Mont. - The Montana High School Association is considering a policy that would allow transgender student-athletes to compete on the team that matches their gender identity.

Here we are, in the most glorious American week of the year, and my business partner writes a column celebrating soccer, the sport that is as exciting as watching paint dry. Come on, why do you think Americans have a ‘Bowl’ and the rest of the world just has a ‘Cup.’ We are bigger, better, and should be.

(CNN) The 2017 NBA All-Star Game will move from Charlotte, North Carolina, because of that state's controversial transgender bathroom law, the league announced Thursday.

(CNN) The NCAA is pulling seven 2016-2017 championships from North Carolina because of the state's stance on LGBT rights.

Today, the NFL announced Super Bowl locations from 2019 through 2021 – all in states free of anti-LGBT policies such as anti-trans bathroom bills or religious freedom laws.

Published on May 15, 2014The NHL is the first major league sport to have players from every team voice support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights. Together with the You Can Play Project, college sports teams are adopting the NHL's message of inclusion.

Despite complete chaos, a criminal investigation and other hiccups, the aquatics events of the World OutGames went on as planned Saturday, one day after the board of the organization announced that the majority of sporting events would be cancelled due to financial troubles.

We are a country of excess. We are obsessed with size, quantity, speed, guns, monster trucks; with the Big Gulp, the economy pack, the party size, two-for-one regardless of what it is, the Whopper, the quadruple Big Mac and all-you-can-eat-buffets. We put foodstuff inside foodstuff. And we brag about it. It’s an accepted part of the American obsession with supposedly being number one in everything, believing we're bigger, stronger and faster permeates many of our thoughts.