If there’s one thing around which the entire LGBTQ community can identify — and most of humanity, for that matter — it’s an awkward first date. When Stephen Finkel and Ryan Prindle met for their first ...

David Coote, the former Premier League referee sacked after making derogatory comments about ex-Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, has come out publicly as being gay and said that hiding his sexuality ...

Andrea Barone, an openly gay referee in the ECHL, two levels below the NHL, in the locker room at the Mattamy Athletic Center in Toronto, Sept. 13, 2017. Barone has been trying, often in vain, to ...

This story was published in 2018 and is being reposted as part of Outsports’ Pride Pioneer series. My memory of my first game is fuzzy. I want to say I was 15 or 16 years old. It was a Pee Wee game ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Former Premier League referee David Coote has apologised for the actions that led to his sacking last month by English soccer's referees' body PGMOL, saying that the pressure of the ...

Former Premier League referee, David Coote, was recently sacked by PGMOL for shocking behaviour caught on camera, and the reason behind it has now emerged. A video of the former official was widely ...

A referee has spoken of his pride at becoming the first openly gay referee to officiate a PDC World Darts Championship final. Huw Ware, from Cardiff, took charge of the second half of the match as ...

MADRID (AP) — A gay Spanish soccer referee is giving up the job after repeatedly being the target of verbal abuse at games because of his sexual orientation. "I can't stand it anymore," Jesus ...