Jock Talk: 4 LGBTQ+ groups drop support for Valencia, Spain as Gay Games host

The election a year ago of a right-leaning coalition city government in Valencia, Spain triggered several local LGBTQ+ organizations this week to drop their support of the 2026 Gay Games being held in that city.

Spirit of Gay Games 2023 outshines COVID, politics, and doubters

The Bay Area Reporter's former sports columnist shares his opinions on the recent Gay Games that took place in Hong Kong and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Jock Talk: If you believe in human rights, do not watch the World Cup

For the first time in four decades, I will not watch a single minute of the men's soccer World Cup. Not one vuvuzela-shrieking minute.

Queer Reading: Gay former MLB umpire pens memoir

Gay retired Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott has written a new memoir where he discusses his relatively easy coming out process.

Guadalajara in talks to co-host next Gay Games

Organizers in Guadalajara, Mexico are in negotiations with the Federation of Gay Games to become a co-host of the Gay Games next year.

Jock Talk: News flash: B.A.R. sports columnist retires

I wrote my first sports column for the Bay Area Reporter 15 years ago this week.

Jock Talk: Sports events that happened (and didn't) in 2021

Years are remembered not just by the things that happened during them and our reflection on which of those events we celebrate and those that we wish had not occurred.

Jock Talk: New IOC policy focuses on inclusion, human rights

Months after openly transgender athletes competed in the Olympics for the first time, the International Olympic Committee delivered on its promise to release new guidelines about transgender and intersex participation in sports.

Jock Talk: Thank you, sports world

As our extended families gather together for annual (not counting pandemic social distancing breaks) feasts ... let us bow our heads like a shot putter preparing for a throw to give silent thanks for the blessings the sports world bestowed upon us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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