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Queer Aussie surfer going for gold at Olympics after overcoming chronic illness

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Australian pro surfer Tyler Wright is a two-time world champion – but now she’s going for gold at the Olympics… although she won’t be anywhere near Paris. This will be Wright’s first Games – amid what she calls a “sausage-fest” in the sport. “As a young girl becoming a woman in surfing, 12 years ago, it was an era of ‘sex sells’,” she previously told The Sydney Morning Herald. “Sexy, straight, blonde, female” surfers were most coveted and she didn’t fit into those stereotypes. “I’m built like an athlete, I’m not straight, I don’t have blonde hair. While men were allowed to go out and be […]

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Boxer Hergie Bacyadan could become the first trans man to win an Olympic medal at Paris 2024

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Filipino trans boxer Hergie Bacyadan will make his Olympics debut at the Paris 2024 Games. Five Filipino boxers – out of 15 total athletes – will be representing the Philippines in the French capital. Bacyadan will be competing in the women’s 75kg division, the heaviest weight class. He is competing in the women’s division because he has not undergone hormone replacement therapy or gender reassignment therapy, despite identifying as a trans man. In fact, Bacyadan has proudly claimed several times that he has never taken testosterone and even stood up to the Russian vovinam team in 2023 after they requested that his […]

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At least 144 LGBTQ athletes to compete in Paris Olympics

At least 144 out LGBTQ athletes will be heading to Paris for the 2024 Summer Games, with a record number of out male Olympians participating, according to the LGBTQ sports site OutSports. In the last Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo in 2021, there were at least 186 out competitors, but the list originally started at 121, according to OutSports co-founder Cyd Zeigler, who said the number increased as the sports news site became aware of additional publicly out athletes.  Zeigler said he anticipates that the number of out athletes on the 2024 list will grow as well.  “We’ve already, in the last […]

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Trans athlete Nikki Hiltz heading to Paris Olympics after record US trials win

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Trans non-binary middle-distance runner Nikki Hiltz is on their way to the Paris Olympics after a nail-biting finish at a trial race. The American track star defended their national championship in a final 1500m race at the US Olympic Track and Field trials, with a record time of 3 minutes, 55.33 seconds. During the intense final push between Hiltz, Elle Purrier St. Pierre and Emily Mackay, the trans non-binary competitor held off the competition. Hiltz’s win, the second-fastest by an American in the event, means they will make their Olympic debut in Paris later this year. Olympian St. Pierre, who had already […]

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Tokyo Marathon adds nonbinary category for 2025 race

The 2025 Tokyo Marathon will allow athletes to select nonbinary as their gender identity instead of male or female during registration. Now, all six Abbott World Marathon Majors — a circuit of the largest, most renowned marathons across the globe — have a nonbinary category for athletes. “The Tokyo Marathon Foundation is committed to promoting DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) and aims to be the most inclusive race in the world,” the foundation, which organizes the Tokyo race, said in a news release on Monday. In 2019, the Tokyo Marathon Foundation signed a pledge to promote gender diversity in sporting events with Pride House […]

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Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100-meter, earning spot at Paris Olympics

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Richardson was slated to compete at the Tokyo Olympics after she won the 100-meter final at the U.S trials three years ago, just one week after her mother passed away. She later tested positive for THC, one of the active components of cannabis, and received a one-month suspension which prevented her from competing that year. Richardson said at the time that she had smoked marijuana to cope with her mother’s death, coupled with the pressure of competing on such a large stage.  The athlete has spent the years since vigorously training under the mentality of “I’m Not Back, I’m Better.” She solidified her […]

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Texas Rangers frustrate LGBTQ advocates as only MLB team without a Pride Night

Rafael McDonnell sometimes gets to address the staff of his beloved Texas Rangers on issues of diversity and inclusion through his role with the Resource Center, one of the leading LGBTQ organizations in the Dallas area. For several years, the Rangers have been the only Major League Baseball team without a Pride Night. When questioned about it, Texas has cited its work with the Resource Center, among other organizations. As Pride Month — the June celebration of LGBTQ culture and rights — comes and goes again without the Rangers participating, McDonnell tried to explain the connection between his group and the team he […]

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All Elite Wrestling star Bulk Bronson comes out as bisexual to celebrate Pride month

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All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star Bulk “Dirty Bulk” Bronson is celebrating Pride month by coming out publicly as bisexual. The squared-circle performer, who is one-third of the wrestling tag-team the Iron Savages, came out via a social media post on X/Twitter on Monday (3 June). As part of a quote-tweet chain in which users post “you and your flag,” Bronson responded to Create a Pro Women’s Champion, Gabby Forza – who he is engaged to – with a selfie and the bisexual flag. Bronson’s post was met with a wave of support from fans and fellow wrestlers alike, several of […]

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Trans golfer Hailey Davidson shares defiant message after US Women’s Open qualifier: ‘Never give up’

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Trans golfer Hailey Davidson has shared a defiant message to transphobes after competing in the US Women’s Open qualifier, telling her fans to “never give up”. Davidson, the first trans golfer to win a professional women’s event back in 2021, won an alternate spot for the US Women’s Open after just missing out on automatically qualifying by one stroke earlier this month.  The golf pro, who was born in Scotland, finished in a three-way tie for third in the 36-hole qualifier at Bradenton Country Club.  She then claimed the first alternate spot at the event against two-time LPGA Tour winner Jasmine […]

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NFL rejects the views Anti-Trans Harrison Butker shared in his speech

Harrison Butker should have known what he was doing when he wrote a commencement speech at Benedictine College seemingly seeking to return American culture to the 1950s. The kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs in his speech on Saturday unleashed a torrent of personal opinion that attacked the LGBTQ community and trans people, women in the workplace, bishops who didn’t do what he wanted, and everyone else who isn’t a masculine conservative Christian man. It was reminiscent of former NFL player Reggie White’s stunning speech to the Wisconsin legislature in 1998 that, for many, turned him into a symbol of hate. Comments from NBC commentator and […]

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