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When pro-bowler Scott Norton kissed his husband Craig Woodward on ESPN after winning the PBA Chameleon Championship in Las Vegas, it was only the latest example of the growing tolerance for LGBTs in sports.

A right fielder fror the Detroit Tigers has been criticized for telling the Los Angeles Times that an out player would make him "uncomfortable."

An entire Swedish soccer team has been suspend after athletes hurled anti-gay slurs at rivals during a match earlier this year.

Tank Carder of the Cleveland Browns quickly backtracked after using the word "faggot" on Twitter and promised never to use the anti-gay slur again.

A football player for a college in Minnesota says he quit the team after years of his coach’s verbal abuse, culminating in his calling him "faggot."

The Federation of Gay Games marked its 30th anniversary in West Hollywood with a celebration honoring those who have helped LGBT athletes achieve equality.

Generation Out Athletes has reinvigorated their brand with a new name and website to help student athletes conquer homophobia and stigma and gain increased acceptance in the sports communities for all sexual orientations and gender identities.

The debate in the NFL about marriage equality only got hotter when two Viking players took to the pages of their hometown paper to argue it further.

After an anonymous German professional soccer player told a magazine he was gay, the country’s chancellor is urging him to come out by saying, "You need not fear."

Karen Hultzer, an Olympic archer from South Africa, announced she was gay in order to become a role model for people who struggle with coming out of the closet and to combat homophobia in sports and in her homeland.