Taking Up Space: When the Gay Games Came to San Francisco

Taking Up Space: When the Gay Games Came to San Francisco

Frank Andre Guridy on Queer Athletic Activism and the Use of Stadiums as Sites of Political Struggle

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The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

Tobias Carroll on M. John Harrison’s Rock Climbing Novel, “Climbers”

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How Football Builds Community and Camaraderie Among Deaf Students

How Football Builds Community and Camaraderie Among Deaf Students

Thomas Fuller on High School Sports and Deaf Culture in the Shadow of COVID-19

By Thomas Fuller | August 8, 2024

What to read next, based on the texts you’re sending about the Olympics.

What to read next, based on the texts you’re sending about the Olympics.

By James Folta | August 1, 2024

On My Attempt to Become a Better Tennis Player By Reading Self-Help Books

On My Attempt to Become a Better Tennis Player By Reading Self-Help Books

Keith Gandal Zen on the Art of Losing Badly

By Keith Gandal | July 31, 2024

Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

And the First Openly Gay Olympic Medalist Was a Poet

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Vicki Valosik on Our Millennia Long Love-Hate Relationship With Getting in the Water

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Rufi Thorpe Considers Wrestling As a Way of Revealing the Inner Self

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Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

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Friday Night Flames: How Wildfires Threatened One High School’s Football Season

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Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

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On the Time the Iron Sheik Threatened to Kill Me

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