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Updated: Jock Talk: Valencia, Spain chosen for 2026 Gay Games
Update: Valencia, Spain was selected as the host city for the 2026 Gay Games. Team SF had indicated that was its preferred city.
Daley's news: Gay Olympian Tom Daley's memoir's a splash
Tom Daley's mesmerizing story in his new memoir includes his medal wins in Tokyo, at the age of 26 his fourth Olympics. But for all the candor in his story, there's little room for self-congratulation and none for self-proclaimed heroism.
Sports Briefs: Distraction? What distraction?
The las Vegas Raiders are 2-0 since former head coach Jon Gruden resigned.
Jock Talk: Former SF Fog coach and rugby champion player Kathy Flores dies
Former San Francisco Fog rugby coach Kathy Flores died Thursday, October 21, after a long battle with colon cancer. She was 66.
Jock Talk: Gruden exposed for the racist homophobe he is
The worst part of now-former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden's emails wasn't the racist imagery or the homophobic language. It was that he felt so comfortable saying those things to people in the sports world he considered friends.
Jock Talk: Behind the decision to postpone Gay Games XI
The decision last week by organizers of Gay Games XI in Hong Kong to postpone the event for one year until November 2023 seemingly materialized at the last moment without warning.
Jock Talk: 2022 Gay Games postponed due to COVID pandemic
Gay Games organizers announced late Tuesday evening the event would be postponed one year for the first time in its 40-year history.
Jock Talk: Sports as family
As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches this week, I find myself reliving so many memories and moments from that tragic day and the sobering days and weeks that followed.
GLBT History Museum to screen rare Gay Games videos
As part of its ongoing Mighty Reel series, the GLBT Historical Museum will screen excerpts from videotapes of the first two Gay Games, held in San Francisco in 1982 and 1986.
Jock Talk: The uncertainty of it all
Gay Games XI is scheduled to be held in Hong Kong November 11-19, 2022. That's less than 15 months away.
Jock Talk: Out athletes score at Tokyo Olympics
Notes on the concluded Tokyo Olympic Games as Japan figures out how much (if any) of the estimated $20 billion-plus it spent to stage the event it can recoup while the International Olympic Committee collects its $3 billion-plus.
Sportertainment: The Lavender Tube on LGBT athletes & allies at the Tokyo Olympics
After a year's delay, and continued health worries and protests, Tokyo's Olympic Games have begun, with the largest ever number of out LGBT competitors. Our TV columnist also focuses on some outstanding straight athletes of note.
Jock Talk: Here come the Summer Olympics
There's something decidedly queer about the Summer Olympic Games set to open in Tokyo this weekend, and it has little to do with the record number of openly LGBTQ athletes who will be competing.
Ken Scearce, director of Sin City Classic tournament, dies
The LGBTQ recreational sports community was rocked this week with the unexpected news that Sin City Classic tournament director Ken Scearce had died.