About Outsports.com,
www.outsports.com
Outsports LLC is based in Los Angeles and was founded in Nov. 2000.
Outsports' mission is to build the broadest, deepest, most informative and
most entertaining gay sports community. This encompasses sports fans, teams
and leagues. A mixture of breaking news, commentary, features, member
profiles, photo galleries, and discussion boards.
About Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation (GLAAD), www.glaad.org
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to
promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of
individuals and events in all media as a means of eliminating homophobia and
discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Portrayal of the Gay Athlete in the
Media Panel
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has partnered with
internet web site Outsports.com to provide content for a discussion panel
examining the media's relationship to gays & lesbians and athletics. Speakers
include:
- Luke Cyphers, ESPN: The Magazine editor-at-large
- Alissa Wykes, a fullback with the Philadelphia Liberty Belles
professional womens football team
- Mitchell Wherley, spouse/partner of Esera Tuaolo (NFL linebacker for
nearly nine years including for the Vikings, Packers, Jaguars, and Falcons
and recently came out on HBO's Real Sports by Bryant Gumbel)
- Craig Lazarus, ESPN: TV, co-producer of the weekly Sunday show,
Outside the Lines
- Jim Buzinski (moderator), co-founder of Outsports.com and an
Los Angeles Times sports writer
