US national team footballer Robbie Rogers has become the first active international player to reveal they are gay, after coming out in a blog post late last week.

Fans of one of Russia’s biggest football teams, Zenit St Petersburg, have called for the club to field only white, heterosexual players after members of the club’s largest supporter group deemed “dark skinned” and gay players as “unworthy”.

Speculation has risen further over the possibility that the AFL may introduce a pride round to the 2013 season fixture.

The Community Brave Foundation will be releasing a new calendar for 2013 featuring some of the LGBTI community’s favourite sporting clubs including The Sydney Convicts, The Stingers, The Flying Bats and Sydney Rangers to help inspire young LGBTIQ youth to join one of the many community sports teams around.

From diving into a circus barrel just to make ends meet to winning an Olympic gold medal and becoming one of the country’s best known and loved gay icons, diver Matthew Mitcham will share these tales and much more in his upcoming autobiography Twists and Turns to be launched at the Midnight Shift next week.

The LGBTI community and the entire city are being urged to get behind Australia’s first gay rugby club, the Sydney Convicts, as they now prepare to play host to the Bingham Cup – dubbed the gay rugby world cup – in two years time.

Australia’s first gay rugby club, the Sydney Convicts, will play host to the Bingham Cup – dubbed the gay rugby world cup – in 2014 and have called upon the city and the LGBTI community to help them defend their title in two years time.

The appearance of Italian superstar Allesandro Del Piero in a Sydney FC shirt for the first time wasn’t the only historic footballing episode last weekend, with the inaugural Pride Football Australia tournament seeing more than enough goals kicked on and off the pitch to leave everyone involved eagerly awaiting next year’s event.

Champion gay New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup has made a last-minute appeal to his friends and supporters across the Tasman to help him win a scholarship that will allow him to continue competing at the highest level.

The Sydney Convicts have returned back to their home town as winners once again following another triumph, this time at the season-ending Australian Gay Rugby Championship in Brisbane over the weekend.

The AFL will now consider holding a Pride Round next season to celebrate the participation of the LGBTI community to the sporting code after the league today also agreed to air the ‘No to Homophobia’ campaign ads during the weekend’s two preliminary finals matches.

The AFL will broadcast “'No to Homophobia” advertisements on big screens at preliminary final games in Sydney and Melbourne this weekend.

As pressure continues to build on Australia’s major sporting codes to do more to tackle homophobia, controversy has erupted on the baseball fields of North America after Toronto Blue Jays player Yunel Escobar was spotted displaying an anti-gay message on his eye-black strips used to deflect sun glare.

In what has been a fairytale season, the Sydney Convicts gay rugby union club tasted even more success over the weekend after taking out the grand final of the Nicholson Cup.

A young gay footballer who was forced to miss his first American college football game through concussion says he has even more pain to deal with now after he was kicked off the team for kissing his much-older boyfriend.