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Adam Rippon winning hearts and minds (as well as an Olympic Medal)

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  Sometimes the media are a tad too quick to idolize sportsmen especially the ones that have medals hanging around their necks.  However, in the case of the young openly gay Olympic Ice Skater Adam Rippon who has barely been out of the headlines these past few weeks, he deserves every single drop of adoration that has been piled on him. Not … Continue reading



Coming Out in Football is still a very big deal : here are the latest 2 brave souls

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  Sport (and particularly football)  is still one of the last great bastions of homophobia (and misogyny) that ensures that the LGBTQ+ communities acceptance is often at a snail’s pace. So much so when 21-year Australian professional footballer Josh Cavallo came out as gay this week it made headlines around the world which is still … Continue reading




Fetish Fight Club

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  MeetFighters.com is an unusual dating site to say the least, as it is for an underground fetish wrestling community who fight each other for sexual gratification.  When members hook up it is for no holds barred fights in living rooms, hotel rooms and makeshift rings, after which evidently anything can happen. VICE made a short documentary … Continue reading



Florence’s annual bloody brawl that seems more than a tad homoerotic

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  Calcio Storico which must qualify as one of roughest competitive sports ever is also one of the World’s oldest and has been played exactly by the same tough rules in Florence,  Italy for the past five centuries.  Once every year neighbors become rivals, and local Tuscans become gladiators and split into four teams as they wage a no-holds-barred battle for the soul … Continue reading



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