UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State alumnus Jim Buzinski, the co-founder of the LGBTQ sports website Outsports and a copy editor at the Los Angeles Times, will be featured April 10 as part of an ongoing conversation series at the University.
The free public session, “A Conversation with Jim Buzinski,” will be begin at 6 p.m. in Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library, with a focus on the state of LGBTQ people and issues in sports. John Affleck, director of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism and head of the Department of Journalism, will serve as moderator for the session, which will include time for audience questions. The event is sponsored by the Curley Center and the Penn State Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Buzinski, who earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism and history in 1980, started his career with the Centre Daily Times in State College. He went on to become an assistant city editor at the paper, a member of the editorial board and food editor.
A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Buzinski has been with the Los Angeles Times since 1999. Before that, he was the sports editor of the Long Beach Press-Telegram for 11 years and also worked at the Pasadena Star-News.
He and partner Cyd Zeigler founded Outsports.com in 1999 as a website initially created as a way for gay sports fan to connect. It quickly transitioned to cover all aspects of LGBTQ issues in sports and remains the only news site devoted to covering LGBTQ athletes, coaches and others in sports, in addition to institutional homophobia.
Outsports has been the recipient of several NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards. Its co-founders were elected to the NLGJA Hall of Fame in 2020.