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Lesbian tennis ace Billie Jean King has became the first woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the sports entertainment category at a ceremony on Monday, April 7, which she attended with her wife Ilana Kloss and friends, including Jamie Lee Curtis. “The important thing is, I don’t
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American trans swimmer and activist Lia Thomas has said she is going to “keep fighting” after President Donald Trump vowed to “keep men out of women’s sports” and ban them from competing at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Thomas was the first openly trans athlete to win gold in a national champion
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Brighton Seagals Football Club, which is open to women, non-binary and trans people, has rebranded its recreational section to Seapals to be more inclusive. Players at the club, which competes in the Sussex County Women & Girls Football League, can be as competitive or non-competitive as they wish.
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Russia-born tennis star Daria Kasatkina, who came out in 2022, has spoken about her decision to switch nationalities and start professionally representing Australia, admitting she had “no choice” but to leave Russia because she is openly gay. Speaking about her decision, Kasatkina, who is in a relat
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Kevin Penrose, an active Gaelic football (GAA) player, who publicly came out in February, has urged other sports people to come out. Kevin, who also works as a travel blog influencer, is among a small cohort of openly gay sportsmen – a small list, which includes Jake Daniels and Donal og Cusack. Kev
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Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics has announced the organisation will initiate genetic testing of women athletes to ban trans women from competing. While full details have yet to emerge, female athletes will likely be required to undergo a one-time cotton swab or dried blood spot test befo
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Kirsty Coventry, new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), supports banning trans women from female sports. Former Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Ms Coventry, 41, pipped Lord Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch to the position. The election means Ms Coventry has become both the fi
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The Australian athlete, and the first active openly gay male professional footballer, expressed his dismay at the slow pace of progress toward acceptance in the sport.
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The UK’s only LGBTQ+ inclusive rowing club hit an exciting milestone on International Women’s Day on March 8 as for the first time two crews participated in the world’s largest women’s rowing race in the world. London Otters RC was founded in 2014 with just a handful of people as a way to help LGBTQ
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Liverpool FC (LFC) marked LGBT+ History Month last month with a series of events and activities to “reinforce its commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion”. This year’s celebration coincided with the fifth anniversary of Red Together, the club’s dedicated equality, diversity and inclusion ini
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Out To Swim, which runs LGBTQ+ swimming clubs across the UK including Bristol, Brighton and London, has announced it has expanded into two new cities, Bournemouth and Newcastle. The LGBTQ+ swimming club was founded in London in 1992 by a small band of enterprising swimmers from the LGBTQ+ community.
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On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, former Norwich and Nottingham Forest striker Justin Fashanu was inducted into the National Football Museum‘s Hall of Fame. As part of the LGBT+ History Month celebrations, the event also coincided with what would have been his 59th birthday. Fashanu was Britain’s fir