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HOMOPHOBIA IS ELEPHANT ROOM WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, GAY FAL FOUR ASSISTANT SAYS
Over the past two s, Mulkey has exhibed a pattern of disfort wh the topic of gay and lbian athlet. In the summer of 2012, for example, Mulkey spoke to Outsports -founr Cyd Zeigler, who asked her a simple qutn: “Have you ever had a gay player on your team? At the time, of urse, Mulkey was g off a 2012 natnal tle at Baylor large part bee she had a gay player on her team: Fal Four Most Outstandg Player Brney Grer, who was the closet throughout her Baylor reer.
And Mulkey gave this answer spe the fact that Grer had rmed Mulkey that she was gay when she was reced. “Coach Mulkey is a member of an athletic partment, a school, a town, a state and even a regn that is known for s nservative belief system, which very much clus homophobia. As lear and in each of the arenas, Coach Mulkey has been unfairly sgled out as particularly homophobic based on what happened wh me and then Brtney Grer.
Nkosi further asserted that “I had no ia what Coach Mulkey would actually say if I told her I was gay 2005, but I had enough rmatn om my life experienc to be aaid. Perhaps, as Nkosi impli, Mulkey’s worldview uld benef by leavg such a homophobic environment. By agreeg to the LSU job, Mulkey is takg her personal history of aligng wh the stutnalized homophobia at Baylor to a public universy wh over 31, 000 stunts and numero LGBTQ+ stunt anizatns.