The newark times review. Both devious covered many of these authors. You can watch the full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Host and now were joined by cyd zeigler whose book is called fair play how lgbtq athletes are claiming their rightful place in sports. G heres the cover. First of all all, youre the cofounder of sports. Com which is what . Guest out sports was started many years ago because being gay sports fans we realize gave people did want to talk about sports and people in sports did want to talk about gay issues. But we did and we knew that there was a large group of people who were like us. So we started talking about these issues, talk about homophobia in sports, athletes coming out on their teams, and slowly we kind of became the experts in becaus there becausee the only ones talking about it. Im talking about back in 1999, 2000, 2001. Slowly as for facial thousand one. Slowly as professional athletes started coming out of the closet in womens sports and in mens spo
Fairplay how lgbt athletes are claiming the rightful place in sports. Color, mister cyd zeigler, you are the cofounder of outsports. Com which is what . Outsports was started many years ago because being gay sports fans we realize gay people didnt want to talk about sports and people in sports didnt want to talk about gay issues but we did and we knew there was a larger group of people who are like us so we started outsports to talk about these issues, talk about homophobia in sports, athletes coming out on their teams and slowly we kind of became the experts in the area because we were the only ones talking about it. Im talking about back in 1999 it 2000, 2001. As slowly as professional athletes coming out of the closet in womens court and mens sports, Mainstream Media started paying a little more attention because they liked it. They like to Pay Attention to professional athletes. Thehigh School Athletes that we focused on and the Smaller School College Athletes we write a lot about,
25th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast now. We look at some of the damage, some of the damage in ferguson, missouri, overnight. This is a Community Deeply troubled right now. These were not the images anyone wanted to see. Theres some question about the timing of the release of this information. The grand jurys decision coming way earlier in the day, and yet they waited until dark neness t make this information known. And that couldnt have helped the situation. One of the questions police will have to answer today. The protests, we mentioned, quickly turned violent, at least a dozen businesses set on fire. Other businesses had their windows smashed and why broken into. In all 82 arrests have been made in ferguson. The faa has restricted flights into st. Louis airport overnight and the anger is not limited to mi
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. What youre looking at is a live picture from the air, ferguson, missouri, the nations heartland. Part of that area still burning this morning after a night of protests after the grand jury declined to indict the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown. Lot of people raising questions this morning. Why wait until 8 00 at night, local time, to make this decision . These are the images nobody wanted to wake up to. Yeah. If you had this decision earlier in the day, why not release it in the light of day . Why wait until its dark in the streets of ferguson . Obviously, this did not go well overnight. One of the questions police will be answering this morning. Here is the very latest. As we mentioned, the protests quickly turned violent last night. At least a dozen businesses set on fire. Other businesses had their w
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