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If you are LGBTQ and considering suicide, contact The Trevor Project hotline at 866-488-7386. It is a FREE hotline, and someone is there to help. Too often, death meets us in ways we don’t see coming, bringing into focus the lives of people we didn’t expect. That’s LuLu. The high school football player turned burlesque performer has died. On Monday, he shared on Instagram a post that has haunted his friends since. That was the last we’ll hear from this lovely man.

Liz Sowers and Katie Sowers aren’t just sisters, they are quite possibly the most successful coaching duo in women’s flag football. Now they’ve brought their coaching talents to Lincoln, where they plan to continue building their championship resumes. And they’ll be doing it with the full support of Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coach Matt Rhule. The Sowers sisters won five national championships in NAIA women’s flag football with Ottawa University in Kansas.

A professional rugby player whose wedding photo with his husband was shared on social media by his club has told Outsports he feels overwhelmed by the positive response. Kyle Tayler has played for Newport RFC in Wales for over a decade, helping the Black and Ambers to the Super Rygbi Cymru national league title last year. In July, he married George Woolston, with the wedding being the first to receive a same-sex blessing at their local village church.

Last weekend, the Sports Transphobapaloooza Tour hit Portland and the Portland Thorns of the NWSL. A small group of fans, organized around a decently followed anti-trans social media personality, attended the NWSL match between the Washington Spirit and the Portland Thorns last Sunday wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts.

News flash: There are a lot of lesbians who attend WNBA games. And some of them are “disgruntled.” That was the revelation made by Riley Gaines on Fox News this weekend as she and her fellow panelists discussed for the umpteenth time trans women in sports. The focus was WNBA and player Sophie Cunningham, who has become a divisive figure for her opposition to trans women in sports.

World Cup winner Borja Iglesias has publicly condemned homophobic comments made about his close friend, the Real Betis defender Hector Bellerin, during a live stream by a prominent Spanish YouTuber and journalist. The incident took place following Friday night’s La Liga match in Seville, where Betis secured a 1-0 win at home to Real Madrid with a late goal.

Welcome back to Talkin’ Gaysball where the only thing wrong with Doug Eddings’ cap is that it has a major league logo… I can’t remember any other season in MLB history where baseball caps have caused so much sturm und drang. Unless I missed some random piece of baseball lore like “In June of 1924, Babe Ruth wrote hash marks on the side of his Yankee hat to keep a tally of Glizzies vs.

Behind the recent drama over the WNBA and trans inclusion, author and self-described hardcore Minnesota Lynx fan Ellie Roscher says the voices the book she co-wrote this year sought to bring to the front need to be heard even more now. “We are putting so much time and money and energy into the wrong thing,” Roscher told Outsports in a recent interview. “It’s taking our focus off of the real work that we should be doing to make sports safer and more equitable for everybody.

Bunny Bruning was 17 in 1974 when she became a professional tennis player, exhilarated by the opportunity to travel the world and compete against some of the best players in the sport. But there were also things nobody talked about. According to Bruning, the players on the tour knew which women were lesbians. They knew who had girlfriends. But there was an understanding that those questions simply weren’t asked.

This week on InstaJocks, our boys were carb-loading, with Sam Phillips going down on a hotdog, Napoleon Jinnies eating a donut hole, Timo Barthel tempting us with his mooncakes, and more. Sam Phillips with a weiner. Napoleon Jinnies ate a donut hole. Timo Barthel served mooncakes in Vietnam. Alec Smith filled his face at the Minnesota State Fair. Cooper Wilson stripped down. Jack Woolley teased us with some Bali foreplay. Jake Williamson hoofed it. Bennett Kpor got an owie.