I was openly gay on my high school team and heard slurs all the time - Outsports

Contents:

• IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM
• I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

IS HE CHECKG ME OUT? WHAT GAY MEN THK IN THE LOCKER ROOM

Wh the rise openly gay athlet participatg profsnal sports, many people are wonrg if gay athlet are more or ls prone to check out other athlet the locker room. Yet, for some reason, 's assumed that gay men are on the hunt 24/7, tryg to bed every guy that walks. It's also assumed that locker rooms are prime huntg grounds for gay men to poach heterosexual men.

I WAS OPENLY GAY ON MY HIGH SCHOOL TEAM AND HEARD SLURS ALL THE TIME

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OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

A therapist om Sacramento, California admted he'd been h upon a few tim by gay men, but "those enunters didn't make me feel unfortable. " Steve th prov that life the locker room mov on, and that speci of varyg sexual orientatn n peacefully recurrg theme left me wonrg why there is this misnceptn that gay men are ready to pounce, at a moments notice, on the first good-lookg guy that giv them two sends of a se?

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IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?

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. “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.

Gay Water, however, is out and proud. 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. 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 FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

“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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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.

I’ve heard spoken my prence as a closeted gay man, been lled as a closeted gay man, and even been provoked by the word as an openly gay man.

When that word was spoken my prence as an openly gay stunt the high school locker room, my water polo teammat would pse, realize what they said, and slowly look at me to see if I was offend. I’m still not sure what ma them more ignorant -- the fact that they were g the word or the fact that they were g the word ont of an openly gay teammate.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

I wasn’t shunned by any means for beg gay — after g out as a senr, I was chosen one of three ptas. The term “faggot” is gradg — giv a rogatory term to a word that most s is beg ed as a synonym for “gay. When a boy lls another boy a faggot, is not only offensive to the person receivg as an sult, but even more so offensive to every gay person havg their inty beg ma an sult.

Locker room talk go beyond homophobic slurs.

Racism, sexism, and homophobia stem om ignorance and lack of unrstandg for others.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last.