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CHRISTIAN LAETTNER SAYS GAY SLURS HURTFUL WHILE HE WAS AT DE

The crowd was full oth and serenad Laettner all game wh nasty homophobic slurs. The other, as scribed by then-De assistant Jay Bilas, now an ESPN analyst, went like this: "The LSU crowd, they did kd of the tomahawk chop at Laettner, except they were chantg: 'homo-sex-ual! The segment on the gay slurs tak up five mut of Rory Karpf's film, but om my angle is the most grippg part of the story for showg how vile and abive fans n be and how thgs have changed for the better.

I jt realized was somethg I uldn't ntrol, so when you look the mirror, you know the tth, and mors that I was gay 1992, that was shockg and not very socially acceptable.

The "Laettner is gay" mor spread bee of three factors: He was a very good-lookg "pretty boy, " va enough to fix his hair durg a game; he ma women swoon and this ma other men jealo. Gay slurs were the orr of the day. 'Oh, that's gay, ' " said Ryan McGee, an ESPN The Magaze wrer "What would say to the person you wanted to get to immediately?

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Christian Laettner says gay slurs hurtful while he was at De - Outsports.

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