Team GB’s Tom Daley poses with bronze medal after the ceremony for the men’s 10m platform final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on 7 August 2021. (Getty/Clive Rose) The head of the Commonwealth Games is “happy” to meet with Tom Daley to discuss his concerns about countries that discriminate against the LGBT+ community. Homosexuality
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The Olympic rings outside the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has once again delayed its transgender guidelines for sport because of “very conflicting opinions”. The new guidelines for international sports federations are not expected to be released until after the Beijing Winter Olympics in February
Megan Rapinoe (L), Tom Daley (C) and Laurel Hubbard are among the LGBT+ athletes representing their countries at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Alex Grimm/Matthew Stockman/Scott Barbour/Getty) If LGBT+ Olympic athletes competed as a team, they would have come 11th in this year’s Tokyo Games, research has found. A total of 55 out LGBT+ athletes
Fumino Sugiyama, a transgender man and former fencer, says he was forced out of fencing because of transphobia. (Instagram/@fuminosugiyama) Former elite fencer Fumino Sugiyama has opened up about deciding to quit his career in sport because of transphobia. Sugiyama told Bloomberg that he was a member of Japan’s national women’s fencing team before he started
Britain’s Tom Daley competes in the preliminary round of the men’s 10m platform diving. (OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images) Tom Daley put his knitting needles down to return to the diving board once again, inching closer to a second medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The British diver finished fourth place in the individual men’s 10 metres
Canoeist Haley Daniels will see her trans mother judge her at the Tokyo Olympics. (Koki Nagahama/Getty Images) A Canadian judge has become the Olympic Games’ first-ever openly trans official – and she even has a daughter competing. At the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, more openly LGBT+ athletes will dive, sprint, cycle and throw than ever
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. (Sega) To celebrate the Tokyo Olympics 2020, we’re taking a look at LGBT+ representation in sports video games. It’s a topic that’s difficult, largely because there is so little queer representation in the genre. Sports are too often the domain of straight white men and sadly sports video games follow suit.
Celia Quansah, Tom Bosworth, Demi Stokes, Tom Daley. (Getty) We’re spoilt for choice at this year’s Olympics as the number of out LGBT+ athletes has more than doubled since the 2016 Summer games. The US is leading the way with 47 out athletes, including the phenomenal Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird, Erica Sullivan and Kayla Miracle.
US softball star Haylie McCleney has spoken publicly about her sexuality for the first time as she shares the happy news of her engagement to fiancé Kylee Hanson. The Team USA athlete revealed she’s been in a relationship with fellow softball player Hanson since they were 17, and their love story reads like a fairytale.