Baylor star Brtney Grer acknowledg she is gay

Contents:

• BAYLOR STAR BRTNEY GRER ACKNOWLEDG SHE IS GAY
• BRTNEY GRER, AN OPENLY GAY BASKETBALL PLAYER IN BAYLOR’S SEA OF HOMOPHOBIA
• HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
• BRTNEY GRER LOV BAYLOR UNIVERSY, BUT ITS ANTI-GAY POLICI HURT HER AND THE SCHOOL
• BRTNEY GRER SAYS BAYLOR UNIVERSY IS NOT SUPPORTIVE OF GAY ATHLET

BAYLOR STAR BRTNEY GRER ACKNOWLEDG SHE IS GAY

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.

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.

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

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? 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.

HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL

“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. But there was a tch: I knew I was gay sce the third gra.

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

Beg gay was certaly somethg that ncerned me, but I put on the back burner so that did not e daily unrt for me. However, when I beme eply volved my spirual journey as a Christian high school, beg gay beme a really big sry problem.

My hope that God would cure my gayns was the drivg force of my spirual life. Whout hatg or thkg through I immediately said, "It's okay, I thk I am gay too.

BRTNEY GRER SAYS BAYLOR UNIVERSY IS NOT SUPPORTIVE OF GAY ATHLET

At the same time I was very homophobic toward my teammat as a way to protect my own secret. To the former teammat who felt like I was homophobic toward them, you were right on.

Now I unrstand that this was a classic se of ternalized homophobia. It was the middle of my sophomore year and I was a sophomore slump as an athlete.

I was qutng basketball and s role my life, which was eply tied to my fah, which was eply tied to not beg gay.