The 2025 QWI 200 cracks the top 50 on day six. With just one more day to go, who will be revealed in the Top 20?
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Candace Parker, the longtime WNBA star, opened up about her relationship and being an out LGBTQ athlete.
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Olympian Adam Rippon and NBC correspondent Chase Cain, both out gay men, will host the 'My New Favorite Olympian' podcast.
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Matt Lynch has his USC-Salkehatchie men's basketball team off to a strong 12-1 start to the season, the best start of his career.
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Milan will welcome Mariah Carey for the start of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Many gay artists and supporters have performed at the Olympics.
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Day five of the 2025 QWI 200 delivers 30 more honorees with gay, trans and other pro wrestlers being highlighted.
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Charlie Larson, Ben Letvin, and Jude Norris found joy in gymnastics when they landed on the same team. Now they're spreading that joy on social media.
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Aaron Rodgers is a complicated man with a unique knack for turning off the public. Gay fans of the NFL quarterback have been no different.
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Bronson became the first out queer male wrestler and second-consecutive out LGBTQ wrestler to win the prominent deathmatch tournament.
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Kirk Walker is a Hall of Famer. Again. The softball coach who helped lead teams for 42 seasons in NCAA Division 1 has been announced as an upcoming 2026 inductee of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Walker, who has been part of seven NCAA National Championship women’s softball teams at UCLA, has […]
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Tom Bacsik is an out gay NHL staffer working on hotels and hospitality with his sights currently set on the Winter Classic in Miami.
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At the end of a gruelling year, Noa-Lynn van Leuven deserves credit, despite defeat to former world champion Peter Wright.
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We crack the top 100 LGBTQ pro wrestlers of 2025 as we reach the halfway point of the 2025 QWI 200, with a former No. 1 being named.
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These TV shows are big on sports and have gay characters and storylines. If you like 'Heated Rivalry,' they could score for you.
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Syracuse sports writer Sam Blum used his final column for The Daily Orange to come out publicly as gay. He wrote about finding acceptance from people in his life yet still searching for acceptance from himself.
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Amber Glenn is poised to make her first USA Olympics team in figure skating, after barely missing out in 2022.
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Iran will play Egypt in Seattle on June 26 for LGBTQ Pride at the World Cup. It's an opportunity to showcase their horrific anti-gay policies.
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'I was really happy that I could finally go ahead and do it,' Dave Kopay recalls about his public coming out. While more players have come out since, one statistic remains stagnant.
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The 2025 QWI 200 rolls into day three with 30 more of the best LGBTQ pro wrestlers of the year, including major promotions.
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Josh Sorbe was a college swimmer who learned how to be authentic in a rural state. Now in D.C. with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Democrats, he is spreading that message.
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‘Since I have been out, not a single individual has treated me differently since before I was in the closet,’ Brandon Rhode writes.
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Conner Curnick, a college water polo player now in the Navy, finds he can be his authentic self despite obstacles.
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InstaJocks this week features a cute Olympic gymnast in speedos, a wrestler boxing and a gay NBA icon sharing.
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Day two of the 2025 QWI 200 reveals 30 more honorees as we break into the top 150, as six LGBTQ wrestlers make their debut.
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There are now more publicly out gay and lesbian head coaches in NCAA Division 1 women's college basketball than ever before.
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