Basketball superstar Brittney Griner has decided to acknoweledge her sexuality for the first time in public.

In a group interview with Sports Illustrated yesterday (18 April), the 22-year-old discussed her sexuality and her ambition to help younger members of the LGBT community. 

She said: ‘If I can show that I’m out and I’m fine and everything’s ok, then hopefully the younger generation will definitely feel the same way.’

During the interview the 6’8 pro-basketball player voiced her personal advice to young fans.

A soccer player scored the winning goal after being called a ‘faggot’ this weekend.

Alan Gordon, the San Jose Earthquakes forward, hurled the gay slur at Will Johnson, a midfielder for the Portland Timbers.

On Sunday night (14 April), Johnson’s goal gave his team a 1-0 win.

Gordon was ejected minutes earlier by soccer officials after calling Johnson ‘faggot’.

After the match, he apologized: ‘I would like to sincerely apologize to everyone who watched tonight's match on NBC Sports Network.

Seattle Sounders defender Marc Burch isn't making any excuses.

Last fall, television cameras caught him mouthing a homophobic slur and Major League Soccer suspended him for three games.

'I knew when the suspension was coming down that it needed to be harsh, because it’s a harsh thing that I did,' Burch said this week in his first public comments about the suspension.

San Francisco 49er cornerback Chris Culliver, whose team plays in the Super Bowl on Sunday (3 February), was quoted as saying that gay players would not be welcome on his team or anywhere in pro football.

Major League Soccer has suspended Seattle Sounders defender Marc Burch for three games after television cameras caught him mouthing a homophobic slur during a recent game.

Burch, 28, has also been fined an undisclosed amount and been ordered to attend sensitivity training by the league which has been trying to stop racism, sexism and homophobia through a television campaign.

The suspension comes during the team's conference final against the LA Galaxy which means Burch will miss the rest of the season even if his team makes it to the championship.

The National Football League has its first 'It Gets Better' video.

Players from the San Francisco 49ers recorded a 'It Gets Better' spot, making the team the first US football team to join the anti-bullying movement.

As a high school student, Greg Louganis won a silver medal in diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Then eight years later in Los Angeles, he won two gold medals.

But it is his performance in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul that made him an Olympic diving legend. He hit his head on the diving board during the springboard preliminaries, required stitches, but still managed to come back and win gold medals in that event and in the platform diving.

New York Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire has been fined $40,o00 by the National Basketball Association for using a gay slur during a Twitter battle with a fan over the weekend.

A fan with the Twitter handle handle @BFerrelli agitated the player with a tweet that poked fun at him saying he better do better next year on the court. Stoudemire responded with this tweet: 'Fuck you. I don't have to do anything fag.'

Khloe Kardashian has spoken for the first time about her alleged assault of a transgender woman, claiming she acted in self-defense.

The US reality TV star has filed a response to the L.A. County Superior Court claiming that trans woman Chantal Spears had provoked the assault, reported celebrity gossip website TMZ.

She added that her actions were 'reasonably necessary for her self-defense and safety.'