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Pro soccer player, David Testo comes out publicly

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Major league soccer player David Testo came out publicly this week

The latest news in the intersectional world of queer people and sports is that American soccer player David Testo has come out. Testo played D1 college soccer at the University of North Carolina as well as at the University of South Carolina, and has played in the NASL and USL (lower-level pro leagues) and in MLS.

After being released from the Montreal Impact about a month ago, Testo publicly came out. He was already out to his friends and family as well as to his teammates and coaches.

Testo’s coming out is kind of a big deal for a lot of reasons.

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Written by || Fri, Nov 11th 2011 at 03:15 PM || Tags: , , , || Category: Jock || Comments are closed

Best gay sports stories of 2010

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Johnny Weir at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

I begin this year’s best of roundups with an unlikely choice: sports. I’m not sure if I’m bucking the stereotype or playing along with it but qPDX has never been particularly strong in our sports coverage (that’s an understatement girl…) but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some really important stories that emerged in the world of gay sports. And even I was pretty glued to the screen for the Winter Olympics, being virtually blinded by Johnny Weir’s sequined outfits.

So begins the countdowns, mostly the top 5 news and arts stories, although I could only narrow the top 10 when it came to music. And you get 2 each day all week long!

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Written by || Mon, Jan 3rd 2011 at 09:07 AM || Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , || Category: Jock || 2 comments - (Comments are closed)