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Check the Photos page for our 3rd Annual Swimsuit Shoot.
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Written by Patricia Nell Warren
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 LGBT Chariot-racing, 396 B.C.
As our local sports groups proliferate across the nation, we sometimes forget how many centuries we’ve been jocking around. As June was Gay Pride Month, it’s a good moment to look back at a wonderful woman sports hero who lived 2,400 years ago … who probably was a lesbian. |
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Written by Buddy Early
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Book about famed lawn tennis match deals with themes of sport, homosexuality and Fascism
In the Open era of tennis, the greatest rivalry has been undoubtedly Chris Evert-Martina Navratilova. Connors-McEnroe, Venus-Serena and now Federer-Nadal have also captured tennis fans’ rapt attention. But before any of these rivalries – way before – there was a struggle on the grass of Wimbledon that encompassed so much more than the game. It pitted #1 against #2, Capitalism against Fascism and, yes, straight against gay. |
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Written by Buddy Early
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Compete is nothing without its loyal readers
I’ve been working as an editor in the gay media for nearly a decade now, yet there are still times when I find myself blown away by the communities we serve.
At the beginning of the spring I headed off to Seattle for our third annual Swimsuit Photo Shoot. Since we shot in Dallas and Phoenix the last two years, we thought the Pacific Northwest would provide us with something different. |
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Written by Buddy Early
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 AIDS/Lifecycle educates, raises $$$ for fight against deadly disease
Imagine you haven’t been on a bicycle since you were a kid. In fact, you don’t even own a bicycle, let alone one good enough to make it from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And you definitely do not consider yourself an athlete. Now imagine you agreed to do just that: pedal the 545 miles that separates the two California cities, traversing the Pacific Coast Highway and further inland routes that take you through wine country and farmland.
You’d probably figure out that you’ve got some serious preparations ahead of you. |
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Written by Eric Carlyle / David Riach
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More Compete headed your way
It has been two years since Perez Hilton first blogged about our inaugural swimsuit issue, drawing so many hits to our Web site that it shut our server down. In 2007 we featured gay and gay-supportive athletes from Dallas. We followed up our premier swimsuit issue by throwing a pool party in Phoenix and inviting local athletes to share in the fun — and the photo shoot. |
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