Lesbian student in Miss. fights for tuxedo photo
(Jackson, Miss.) Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she’s never tried to hide it.
But when Sturgis – an honor student, trumpet player and goalie on the school’s soccer team – wanted her senior photograph in a tuxedo used in the 2009-10 yearbook, school officials …
French gay soccer team snubbed by Muslim team
(Paris) A French gay soccer team says its members were victims of homophobia when a team of Muslim players refused to play a match against them.
The Paris Foot Gay team says Tuesday it received an e-mail from the Creteil Bebel club canceling a match scheduled for last Sunday.
“Because of the …
Analysis: Soccer tarnished by cold-shoulder to gays
(Paris) Marcello Lippi, Italy’s World Cup-winning soccer manager who seems to have both feet planted in the 19th century, says he’s never come across a gay player in his 40-odd years in the sport.
Clearly, Lippi needs to take an eye-opening trip to Milan.
There’s a gay soccer team there, competing weekly …
