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Jason Collins, NBA player and LGBTQ trailblazer, dies at 47Jason Collins, who became the first active athlete in one of the four major North American sports leagues to come out as gay in 2013, died of glioblastoma, his family said Tuesday. He was 47.,Collins was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2025, and he revealed in December that he was fighting Stage 4 g...

LGBTQ Athletes And Allies Celebrate Supreme Court’s DecisionIn a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court decided today that federal civil rights law protects LBGTQ workers from discrimination....

Let Me Fill In Some Missing Details On Complex Record Of Isiah ThomasDid you hear the one about the team walk-off involving Isiah Thomas? You know, the one in 2012?...

CeCe Telfer's National Title Emphasizes The Catch-22 Of Being A Trans Athlete

Because a large percentage of social conservatives only feign interest in women’s sports when trans women compete in them, CeCe Telfer is the most famous NCAA Division II track athlete in the country. Telfer, a senior at Franklin Pierce University, has drawn anger and outrage from all the usual grif...

She's Got The Strength, But Who Has The Power?

JayCee Cooper was looking forward to her first sanctioned USA Powerlifting meet in her home state of Minnesota when she received word, just a month before the event, that she wouldn’t be allowed to compete....

A Transgender Anti-Discrimination Law Won't Mark The End Of Women's Sports

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday to discuss the Equality Act, a bill that would create a national ban on discrimination against LGBT people—something that only a minority of states legally prohibit at the moment. In the wake of some major gains for queer and trans people in thi...

As I Lay Me Down To Sleep, I Pray For Liberty To Freaking Lose

In case you missed it, your bracket probably got a little worse last night thanks to Liberty University’s upset 80-76 win over Mississippi State. Jerry Falwell Jr.’s infamously strict and alarmingly retrograde university won its first game ever in the NCAA tournament ever and I, for one, am praying ...

Where Drag Queens Drop From The Rafters

NEW ORLEANS— Late on a Saturday night a little over a week before Mardi Gras Day, a warehouse in a semi-industrial corner of downtown is thumping with bass and jammed to its damp cinderblock walls with people, with more spilling out into the gravel yard. Inside, the temperature is at least 10 degree...