🇮🇹⚽️🏳️🌈 Alessandria Calcio, Italy’s sixth oldest football club, asked their local #LGBTQ organisation if they could add its logo on their jerseys.
“They told us we were the first to do it [wear the Pride flag] in Italy. This makes us proud,” said team captain Cristian Tos. 👏
For @outsports.com
This year’s Sports Journalists’ Association Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 7 May.
Do you have a role in U.K. #sportsmedia and are interested in potentially joining the SJA Committee? Perhaps you’d like to suggest a relevant motion for the Agenda?
All the info here ⬇️
🏏 Invicta Icons are the UK’s newest LGBTQ+ inclusive cricket club - the sixth such team to be established
🌟 For influencer Jordan Chan, being part of the club has sparked an unexpected passion for cricket. Now he wants others in the local area to discover this too…
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Hey everyone! For a while, I did a podcast on LGTBQ+ people in sports called the Outfield Podcast, but after a very long break, the show is back! The guest on the new episode is Mitch Brown, the first Aussie Rules player to come out as bi (I know Bluesky loves footy). The links are in the next post:
Keane Handley poses with his trophy after winning the FWA Student Football Writer Unheard Voices award (Pic: John Walton/PA Wire)
⏳ Time is running out for those in full-time tertiary education to enter the Football Writers’ Association’s annual Student Football Writer of the Year Awards…
⚽️🏆🌈 Keane Handley won the ‘Unheard Voices’ category last year, and with it, £1,000 in prize money
@fwaofficial.bsky.social
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📣 The SJA announces the winners of the ‘Ones to Watch’ and Academy Award categories at the British Sports Journalism Awards
🏆 Congratulations to Annabel Lee-Ellis, who is the #SJA2025 Canon Young Sports Photographer of the Year 📸🥇
🔗 Follow the link to learn more and see the winning portfolio
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Jamaica’s Oblique Seville celebrates his World Athletics Championships 100m final victory in Tokyo in September 2025. (Photo by Will Palmer for World Athletics Media Academy)
📸 Congratulations to Will Palmer who placed 4th in the Young Reporter Photography category at the AIPS Sport Media Awards
Will, who won the category in 2023, entered this image titled ‘Ripped with Glory’, taken at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo last September
#AIPSawards
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🗣️ “This isn’t the end. I’m just going back to the drawing board. I’m not done fighting” - Noa-Lynn van Leuven
🎯 There’s been opposition and, sadly, some awful abuse directed at Noa-Lynn for playing women’s darts, but a lot of vocal support for her too. She won’t give up. 👏
Read on @outsports.com
I’ve seen documents from disciplinary hearings in English football where players have attempted this defence, claiming they said “maggot” instead of the gay slur with which it rhymes.
Those attempts failed on the evidence and the balance of probability, and so should Lance Collard’s. #AFL
⚽️ LGBTQ football fans in Argentina and beyond continue to celebrate Nacho Lago’s visibility.
Trailblazing gay athlete Sebastian Vega, who has won national basketball titles with Boca Juniors, is among those taking heart: “I celebrate such courage… it’s so necessary.” 🇦🇷🏳️🌈
Read on @outsports.com
⚽️🏆 Deadline approaching for the @fwaofficial.bsky.social Student Football Writer Awards! Three winners will each receive £1000 prizes (to be eligible, entrants need to be in full time tertiary education). And there’s an ‘Unheard Voices’ category.
Check out the info and submit by Friday 24 April…
NEW: #LGBTQ inclusion in grassroots sports’ is under threat, with lobby groups now going after participation policies even at the entry level.
Large-scale events like the Gay Games and EuroGames are taking on extra importance, but they need more support. Will they get it?
✍️ @jonhholmes.bsky.social
Happy news! It appears that South America now has its first-ever active footballer who is out as gay or bi in the men’s professional game.
There continues to be an outpouring of positive messages about Colón winger Nacho Lago and his boyfriend, in Argentina and beyond.
For @outsports.com
#LGBTQ
Seattle Pride Match scarf The official Pride Match Day Scarf, with a design by Kelly Bjork, has been created as part of the Seattle FIFA World Cup 26 community celebrations. | Supplied by Seattle FWC26
🧣⚽️🏳️🌈 The first-ever #FIFAWorldCup Pride Match has an official scarf, featuring artwork by a local designer.
🗣️ The scarf will provide “a visible presence in the stands” - Seattle organizers.
Egypt v Iran tickets were available in the open sale (via @outsports.com) 👉 www.outsports.com/2026/4/1/241...
🏟️ Still plenty of tickets available at time of writing for the #FIFAWorldCup Pride Match between Egypt and Iran in Seattle.
Organizers have also created an official Pride Match Day Scarf, featuring a local artist’s design and the slogan ‘We Stand Together’ in rainbow colors.
For @outsports.com
NEW 🗣️ “It’s so moving to see the words with the pictures, the real lives in these beautiful portraits. It’s giving even more life to the language.”
Sarah McCreadie talks to us about ‘Let The Dolls Play’, her new visualised poem about the trans footballers impacted by the FA ban.
#FvT2026 #TDOV2026
🏳️⚧️⚽️🏳️🌈 Proud to have helped bring Sarah McCreadie’s powerful poem ‘LET THE DOLLS PLAY’ - first performed at Football Pride last year - to a wider audience for Football v Transphobia’s Week of Action #FvT2026
Thanks to everyone who collaborated to make this happen 🙏
Arthur Webber wearing blue, red and white Leftfooters FC kit holds a copy of his new children’s story book ‘Jacob Transition’s Goals’
📕⚽️🏳️⚧️ ‘Jacob’s Transition Goals’ is now just a few weeks away from its publish date - and we’re excited to have held the beautiful hardback book for the first time!
Author Arthur Webber (@bernietranders.bsky.social) was introducing fellow players at the WLQP Festival of Football to Jacob’s story…
Proud that our little #LGBTQ sports project has again been shortlisted by the judges. Thanks to everyone who supports us 🙏 #SJA2025
🏳️🌈⚽️🏳️⚧️ Wonderful welcoming vibes at the @wlqp.bsky.social Festival of Football!
With more than 40 teams in action, this truly inclusive celebration of the beautiful game is pure joy - congrats to all involved and thanks for making our campaigns part of the message 🩷⚫️
#FvT2026 #LGBTQfootball #FvH2026
🗣️ Former AFL player Leigh Ryswyk on #comingout as gay to his dad, when in his mid-30s: “That experience was one of the biggest things for me, but his reaction was something that blew me away.”
Ryswyk, a North Adelaide Roosters club legend, just made Aussie rules history. 👏
For @outsports.com
🏳️⚧️⚽️🏳️⚧️ March 25 is the first day of the annual Football v Transphobia Week of Action, and to mark this, we’re launching a new report
📣 “They say football’s for all, but it’s not anymore”: The lived reality of players excluded by the English and Scottish FAs’ new trans policy for women’s football
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NEW: An #LGBTQfootball milestone in Germany - the first coach at a Bundesliga men’s club to come out as gay.
Christian Dobrick is in his first year coaching the U19 team at St Pauli. He’s shared his truth in an interview with journalists Jonas Gerdes & Dirk Elbrächter (NTV/RTL).
For @outsports.com
Ramiel Petros, Nick Freeman and Tony Powell’s sister Denise at BFI Flare
🎥 Such an enthusiastic response to the UK premiere of the outstanding documentary ‘The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel’ at #BFIFlare.
Can’t wait for more people to see this great film about former Norwich City star Tony Powell, homophobia in football and society, and family.
#LGBTQ1
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Ramiel Petros, Nick Freeman and Tony Powell’s sister Denise at BFI Flare
🎥 Such an enthusiastic response to the UK premiere of the outstanding documentary ‘The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel’ at #BFIFlare.
Can’t wait for more people to see this great film about former Norwich City star Tony Powell, homophobia in football and society, and family.
#LGBTQ1
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🏳️⚧️⚽️🏳️⚧️ Show your support for trans inclusion in football with our ‘Let The Dolls Play’ merch, in collaboration with Goal Diggers FC
T-shirts and tote bags in black or white are available to buy now in the FvH Shop - order for the annual Football v Transphobia Week of Action from March 25 to 31
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Everton fan given three-year football banning order (via @liverpoolecho.co.uk)
“This result shows people can’t hide behind their social media accounts and post racist, homophobic and transphobic comments online” - DC Tom Sharrocks, Merseyside Police
#FvH2026 #FvT2026 #EFC
NEW: In 100 days’ time, the Opening Ceremony of the 12th Gay Games will be held in Valencia, followed by the week-long #LGBTQ inclusive multisports festival. 🇪🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
For @outsports.com, here’s a look at the build-up, plus a chat with first-time #GayGames athlete, Gia Metric of Canada’s Drag Race fame…
🏳️⚧️⚽️🏳️🌈 Football v Transphobia’s Week of Action runs from March 25 through to Trans Day of Visibility - get ready for the annual campaign activation…
Discover 🔟 reasons to show support in the link 🔗
🫵 We need you! Clubs, teams, leagues, fan groups - help us amplify the #FvT2026 message this month 👍
