Nike's new ad mpaign for s Hyperdunk sho featur a seri of pictur of basketball players gettg dunked on what's nsired the worst way possible: the dunker danglg off the rim, his balls danglg the face of the man beg dunk-ee. They all have dynamic slogans like "That A't Right!" The pany has been plasterg them around NYC's most famo streetball mecs, like Harlem (home to The Rucker) and Wt 4th St. Their rollout cis wh a big foofaraw this week (which some crics say is stupid oversensivy) over whether the ad dtry is makg blatantly homophobic ads. All of which rais the qutn: Are the Nike ads a new low homophobic advertisg? Or do the gays jt not unrstand basketball?
Contents:
- JASON COLLS SAYS HE'S GAY
- DO NIKE HATE GAYS? OR DO GAYS HATE BASKETBALL?
- 5 GAY ATHLET WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
JASON COLLS SAYS HE'S GAY
NBA center Jason Colls on Monday announced that he's gay a story for Sports Illtrated, beg the first active player one of the four major Amerin profsnal team sports to announce that he is gay. * gay nike athletes *
“I’m jt tryg to ntue to kd of normalize what what is to be gay, ” Bird told Outsports a phone terview. Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.
I'm a footballer and I'm gay.
DO NIKE HATE GAYS? OR DO GAYS HATE BASKETBALL?
Adidas and Nike recently took huge steps to refe their sens of rponsibily as rporate cizens where lbian, gay and transgenr issu are ncerned. * gay nike athletes *
"He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay. In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay! Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out.
"I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay, " he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media. The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract.
5 GAY ATHLET WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib publicly me out June 2021, makg him the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL. * gay nike athletes *
I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay.
The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. "He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay.