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Robbie Rogers, an American pro soccer player in the U.S. and the U.K., came out but said he would stop playing.

An entire Swedish soccer team has been suspend after athletes hurled anti-gay slurs at rivals during a match earlier this year.

After an anonymous German professional soccer player told a magazine he was gay, the country’s chancellor is urging him to come out by saying, "You need not fear."

While an Italian soccer player made anti-gay comments this week (for which he later apologized) a Houston Texan NFL linebacker voiced his support for gay marriage and a more accepting culture in sports.

UK pro soccer player Lee Steele was fired for an anti-gay tweet about retired and openly gay rugby player Gareth Thomas.

Welsh football fans were shocked to hear the news of Gary Speed’s apparent suicide last weekend. But with no apparent reason to have hung himself in his home, the blogosphere is buzzing about one theory: that he was going to be outed as gay.

David Testo, 30, who has played for the Montreal Impact and the Vancouver Whitecaps, recently announced that he is gay, according to the Associated Press. He says, however, he regrets not going public until now.

It came too late for a lesbian soccer coach, but after a storm of protests from students, Belmont University, a Christian school in Nashville, has changed its policy to include sexual orientation in its protections against job discrimination.

The head of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) sparked a firestorm when he joked that gay soccer fans headed to Qatar in 2022 for that year’s World Cup would have to refrain from having sex. Now he has apologized.

Gay soccer fans thinking about attending the World Cup in Qatar in twelve years were jokingly warned off any plans to have sex while in that nation by the head of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).