Necessary Roughness

Find Pride in Your Sport, and Your Sport at Pride

It’s official: Pride season is underway. Last month Compete participated in the annual Phoenix Pride, as we have done every year of our existence. From this point on, festivals across the country fill up the calendar every weekend until November. That’s a whole lot of pride.

Pitching for Acceptance

Gay Icon Ben Cohen Preps for May U.S. Tour

Ben Cohen is a remarkable man — a rugby superstar and World Cup winner. England has rewarded him by naming Ben a Member of the British Empire. He’s a qualified helicopter pilot — and he replaced David Beckham as

From the Sky Box

Compete Sports Media got its start in rugby. It was shortly before gay rugby’s 2006 Bingham Cup that I began discussing the idea of a gay sports magazine with my now business partner, David Riach. We took the idea with us to New York where David decided that the Bingham Cup needed more coverage and jumped on board with me to found what is now Compete Sports Media.

Spokespersons for a Cause

30 Years of Living, Anniversary of First Case of AIDS

The goals of any fundraising effort are to have maximum participation and raise as much money as possible. The organizers of the 10th annual AIDS/LifeCycle have high hopes they will accomplish the latter when their event kicks off in June … but have already succeeded in