The Roar began in 2009 when male student rowers posed nude to challenge homophobia in sport. The massive global response to the Warwick Rowers naked calendar highlighted how taboos around male nudity relate to wider social problems that affect us all. It kick-started an award-winning campaign to cha...

Xtra caught up with Ryan Kesler and Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks to talk about homophobia in sports and the "You Can Play" Campaign

The Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League join the You Can Play Team with a pledge to end homophobia in sports.

Seattle-based Macklemore & Ryan Lewis join You Can Play in an effort to erase homophobia in sports, music and entertainment. Filmed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in February 2013.

A hidden camera social experiment created by Spain’s State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals, shows us what happens when an American gay couple on vacation in Spain stops to ask locals for directions and to translate a letter, given to them by their homophobic hotel owner. The

The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “

Ellia came out as a transgender man in his opening address to the Bingham Cup International Summit on ending transphobia and homophobia in sport on August 16, 2022 in Ottawa. The Bingham Cup is the ‘world cup’ of gay and inclusive rugby, held biennially. Ellia represented Australia playing women’s

"Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS" is an educational and advocacy tool that presents up close and personal interviews with people infected or affected with HIV/AIDS, providing role models and empowering survivors. This episode highligh an up and close interview with lee roi hutton, an american painter. ...

Free & Equal’s newest video – narrated by movie star Zachary Quinto – exposes just how much LGBT exclusion really costs. Rates of poverty, homelessness, depression and suicide have been found to be far higher among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people than in the general population. But it’

A new biopic on four-time gold medal Olympian and gay athlete Greg Louganis called Back on Board is airing on HBO in August, with a new introspective on Louganis’ time in the Olympics, the homophobia he dealt with from fellow teammates, his HIV disclosure controversy and mentoring the next generatio