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April 9, 2012

Anton Hysen is rocking Sweden's Let's Dance

Gay footballer is winning fans with his dance-floor moves

Professional footballer Anton Hysen was probably a bit of an obvious choice to join the cast for Sweden's Let's Dance 2012.

Known as Strictly Come Dancing in the UK and Dancing With The Stars in the US and other countries, the show's format pairs celebrities with a professional dance partner and requires them to learn and perform new routines each week.

January 16, 2012

2012: Get your game on

Gay sports men and women get ready for a mammoth year, including the Olympics and gay Eurogames

2012 is fast becoming the year of sport.

While the relentless momentum generated by the summer Olympics in London this year is undeniable (less than 200 days to go!) there is a bit more to it than that.

There are now a number of openly gay sports people, still at the peak of their professional careers. Anton Hysen (football), Donal Cusack (hurling), Matthew Mitcham (diving) and Steve Davies (cricket) may only be a small band of pioneers, but the question of ‘should professional sports people come out?’ is beginning to feel a bit irrelevant.

December 31, 2011

Will male player on major sports team ever come out in U.S.?

Retired gay Major League Baseball star Billy Bean says 'It's going to take maybe just one special guy who can really move that ball forward'

As 2011 draws to a close, the major U.S. professional sports of football, basketball and baseball still have never had an active male player declare that they are gay.

There are still only handful who have even done so in retirement.

Among them is retired baseball pro Billy Bean who played for San Diego Padres, Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Dodgers during the 90s and came out publicly in the 2003 memoir Going The Other Way.