Head football coach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has spoken out in support of gay sports players.

Coach Jim Mora has appeared in a video filmed by the You Can Play project to raise awareness of changing attitudes to LGBT players in sport. The project’s simple message for gay sportspeople is ‘If you can play, you can play.’

Speaking to Outsports, Mora stated an athlete coming out on his football team and in other sports would be well received. He said: ‘It doesn’t matter to me.

A gay kiss between a professional bowler and his husband is being hailed as one of the first times an out athlete has locked lips on live TV.

Scott Norton was filmed snogging his partner Craig Woodward by sports channel ESPN after winning the 2012 PBA Chameleon Championship in Las Vegas.

Although the event happened in November, the footage was only shown by the TV network on 30 December.

High school children across the US are forming gay and straight student alliances. More and more athletes in colleges and universities are coming out to their teams. The National Basketball Association, National Football League and Major League Baseball all have anti-LGBT discrimination clauses in their contracts with players' unions. Despite all of this, no player in a major US sports has come out. Are they cowards?

Pro-gay rights NFL player Chris Kluweis finding out that his very vocal support of LGBT equality has made him a hate mail target to some who don't share his views.

The Minnesota Vikings punter on Wednesday (26 September) said on Twitter that he had received a cartoon that ompared him to a pedophile.

Nearly half, 43%, of openly gay athletes have won a medal at the London Olympic Games.

In comparison to the United States, only 18% of 530 American athletes have graced the podium so far.

Out of the 23 openly gay athletes, comprising of 20 women and three men, 10 of them have won a medal solo or in a group.

If they were Team LGBT, they would have won four gold medals, one silver, and two bronze between them.

This means they would be number 19 in the official rankings, beating countries like Spain, Brazil, and Canada.

Hockey player Cam Janssen is walking back comments he made on an internet radio show.

If everything goes as planned, the US Olympic male gymnast team will have its first out athlete when the world meets in London this summer. Yesterday (5 May) Josh Dixon finished second out of 72 competitors at the US Men’s Qualifier in Colorado Springs. He also tied for first in the floor exercise and high bar events.

Charles Barkley, known as the 'Round Mound of Rebound' when he wrecked havoc in the NBA, wears a classy black dress in an upcoming Weight Watchers' television commercial.

'I hear that some of you guys think that Weight Watchers is just for women,' the Hall of Famer says as he stands in stiletto heels.