Steve Strimlg says beg gay has never stopped him om advancg as a football official. Now a whe hat referee the Pac-12, he wants to e out publicly to help others.
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- THIS GAY HOCKEY REFEREE LOV THE GAME. HOMOPHOBIA TELLS HIM THE GAME DON’T LOVE HIM BACK.
- WWE REFEREE SHAWN BENT OUT AS GAY ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY
- FIFA REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY MONTHS BEFORE THE WORLD CUP
- REFEREE ENDS USMNT ROUT OVER MEXI EARLY AMID ANTI-GAY CHANTS
- OPENLY GAY PRO-FOOTBALL REFEREE AMANDA SER-COOK WILL BE PART OF DIVERSE XFL OFFICIATG CREW
- "YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED" - FIFA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO BELIEV 40% OF FOOTBALLERS ARE GAY OR BISEXUAL
- GAY PAC-12 REFEREE HAS BEEN WH HIS PARTNER FOR 29 YEARS. NOW HE'S G OUT TO HELP OTHERS.
- GAY PRO HOCKEY REFEREE FS SIMPLY BY BEG HIMSELF
- TURKISH FOOTBALL THORY TO PAY OUTED GAY REFEREE
THIS GAY HOCKEY REFEREE LOV THE GAME. HOMOPHOBIA TELLS HIM THE GAME DON’T LOVE HIM BACK.
Ser-Cook beme the first openly gay referee profsnal football history when she worked for the Alliance of Amerin Football last year. * youtube gay referee *
The 12U hockey ach yellg at me om the bench durg a tournament I was officiatg was referrg to a small pri sticker I put on my helmet after seeg one on the helmet of my favore official, Dre Barone, an out gay AHL (at the time ECHL) official.
It wasn’t the first time I had experienced homophobia hockey – That happened well before the locker room durg my playg days. Acrdg to gay hockey referee Tyler, this helmet sticker upset a lot of people. However, hate and homophobia are still there the game.
While USA Hockey has updated l to clu harsher penalti for homophobic and racist language before, durg, and after gam, is still there. More recently, a 12-year-old player was makg homophobic ments to me om the bench while I skated by, and after the third time I gave the bench a penalty.
WWE REFEREE SHAWN BENT OUT AS GAY ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY
“You’re beg soft bee you’re gay, ” the ach told me. When that same player received another penalty om me (at the time I didn’t realize that was the same player), I got another homophobic tira om the ach. “You’re targetg him bee you’re gay and he ma those ments, ” the ach said.
Hockey has ma stris terms of workg on some of s culture problems, but I thk homophobia is still an issue that needs a lot of attentn.
Associatns n do their part by makg sure there are clear l agast homophobic, racist and discrimatory actns and ments, and by followg through on punishment of those who break those l. Whenever I enunter homophobia hockey, I am remd that I love the game, and I want to give back, but sometim feels like the game don’t love me back. WWE referee Shawn Bent took Natnal Comg Out Day to heart Monday when he me out publicly as gay beamg fashn.
FIFA REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO OUT AS GAY MONTHS BEFORE THE WORLD CUP
I did my bt to supprs any and all homosexual thoughts before and after that for a long time. “I was nvced that I would never be succsful if people knew I was gay. Bent’s msage me alongsi imag of him celebratg at Come Out Wh Pri Orlando wh others while wearg the “We Are All Human” shirt ma famo wrtlg circl by former WWE wrtler Jake Atlas, who is also gay.
REFEREE ENDS USMNT ROUT OVER MEXI EARLY AMID ANTI-GAY CHANTS
Igor Benevenuto, a FIFA soccer referee Brazil, has e out publicly as gay.
In a stirrg statement to Globo Esporte, Benevenuto, 41, talked about the pa of livg a culture and a relign that rejected homosexualy.
OPENLY GAY PRO-FOOTBALL REFEREE AMANDA SER-COOK WILL BE PART OF DIVERSE XFL OFFICIATG CREW
Gay sex is illegal Qatar, and FIFA has been experienced heightened scty of late for the selectn of Qatar as the World Cup host. I will jt be Igor, male, gay, who rpects people and their choic.
PlayGomez slams 'embarrassg' anti-gay chants durg USMNT vs. Mexi was end early by the referee due to anti-gay chants. (1:24)Car HernanzJun 16, 2023, 01:46 AM ETThe Uned Stat men's natnal team's 3-0 w over Mexi the Conf Natns League semifal on Thursday was halted before the pletn of send-half stoppage time by the referee amid anti-gay chantg.
"YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED" - FIFA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY REFEREE IGOR BENEVENUTO BELIEV 40% OF FOOTBALLERS ARE GAY OR BISEXUAL
Referee Ivan Barton, who had already hand out four red rds the game, psed the game the 89th mute bee of anti-gay chantg heard om the crowd at Allegiant Stadium Las Vegas. Goalkeeper Matt Turner was once aga greeted by the anti-gay chant.
"The Mexin Football Feratn (FMF) has stggled recent years wh curtailg the anti-gay chant that is typilly yelled durg opposg goal has issued f to the FMF bee of the actn of fans, which clud a $108, 000 sanctn January for the chant at the 2022 World FMF has ma attempts to eradite the discrimatory yells through avenu such as public service announcements, social media posts and pregame announcements om players. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.
GAY PAC-12 REFEREE HAS BEEN WH HIS PARTNER FOR 29 YEARS. NOW HE'S G OUT TO HELP OTHERS.
“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.
“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.
GAY PRO HOCKEY REFEREE FS SIMPLY BY BEG HIMSELF
The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.
Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.
Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.
TURKISH FOOTBALL THORY TO PAY OUTED GAY REFEREE
The league will employ seven female officials, cludg Amanda Ser-Cook, who ma history last year as the first openly gay referee to work a major profsnal football league, when she served as a center judge for the short-lived Alliance of Amerin Football.
Openly gay Pac-12 official Steve Strimlg is the ordator of officials, mirrorg the role he held the AAF. A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments.
SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.".