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ESPN980 suspends hosts for transphobic comments

Aaron McQuade - Director of News and Field Media at GLAAD
December 11th, 2012

Following outreach from GLAAD, ESPN980 in Washington D.C. announced today that it has suspended Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin, hosts of the "Sports Reporters" show, over a segment they ran last week in which the pair made fun of transgender college basketball player Gabrielle Ludwig.

Groundbreaking Nike LGBT Sports Summit takes on bullying, homophobia and transphobia in sports

SDGLN Staff
June 19th, 2012

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Many of the nation’s top LGBT sports leaders joined Nike representatives at Nike World Headquarters for the first-ever Nike LGBT Sports Summit to combat bullying and anti-LGBTQ bias and discrimination in sports.

Advocates and organizations pooled their expertise and strengths over four days — June 14 to June 17 — to develop a unified plan to end harassment and discrimination against LGBT athletes and coaches in kindergarten through high school, college, recreational sports and professional sports.

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VIDEO: NFL players speak up as allies for gay athletes

Alexandra Bolles - GLAAD National News Media Intern
May 31st, 2012

A dozen professional football players were asked this week about their thoughts on gay athletes and expressed unanimous support to Outsports.com -- a story that has been picked up by mainstream media outlets, including CBS, NBC, Washington Post, and the NFL itself.

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