Brtney Grer, An Openly Gay Basketball Player In Baylor’s Sea Of Homophobia – ThkProgrs

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Baylor's Brtney Grer has revealed she is gay. The No. 1 overall pick the recent WNBA Draft explaed why was no big al for her to e out.

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BAYLOR STAR BRTNEY GRER ACKNOWLEDG SHE IS GAY

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Grer was asked by SI's Maggie Gray on the difference between men's and women's sports when to acceptance of sexual orientatn; why the WNBA has been able to often embrace many lbians wh their sport, while male sports Ameri still was on s first publicly gay player.

BRTNEY GRER, AN OPENLY GAY BASKETBALL PLAYER IN BAYLOR’S SEA OF HOMOPHOBIA

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1 pick the WNBA draft, she me out and admted she's gay. MORE: Sam speaks at be | Sam's marketg power | Arizona's "Anti-gay bill" vetoed. In the book, which USA Today obtaed excerpts of, she exprs specific disappotment wh Baylor for the school's stance on homosexualy.

' — when the admistratn has a wrten policy agast homosexualy, " Grer wrote the book. Wh Missouri fensive leman Michael Sam recently admtg public that he is gay, spe nfidg his team and ach before the 2013 season, Grer's ments do shed some light on how dividual universi handle homosexualy among high-profile stunt athlet. 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?

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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.

BRTNEY GRER LOV BAYLOR UNIVERSY, BUT ITS ANTI-GAY POLICI HURT HER AND THE SCHOOL

And Mulkey gave this answer spe the fact that Grer had rmed Mulkey that she was gay when she was reced.

BRTNEY GRER SAYS BAYLOR UNIVERSY IS NOT SUPPORTIVE OF GAY ATHLET

“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.

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