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- A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
- "JT A HAPPILY FLAMBOYANT GAY MAN" - FANS SUPPORT MAGIC JOHNSON'S SON EJ AS PREGAME VIO GO VIRAL
- RUDY GAY CLAIMS LEBRON JAM IS A ‘DECEPTIN’
A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
The LA Lakers hosted fans for LGBTQ Pri Night wh this offer that elevated gay and queer events sports. * gay lakers fans *
The event featured the first out active LGBTQ llege football player, Conner Mertens, prentg a “Lac of Uny” award to Jason Colls, who was the first publicly out gay athlete to play an NBA game. While he was a member of the Brooklyn Nets, was at a game agast the Lakers that he first took the urt as an openly gay man.
One of the ol thgs the Lakers did for Pri was feature a uple same-sex upl on the KissCam durg the game, cludg a gay athlete who me out publicly on Outsports, Harrison Wilkerson, and his soccer-player boyiend, Cody Cook. The wner of last year’s “Lac of Uny” award, Jason Colls, is to prent this year’s trophy to the soccer player who shattered LGBTQ barriers Amerin sport: Robbie Rogers, who beme the first out gay man to pete a top-tier North Amerin profsnal sports league when he played his first match for the LA Galaxy May 2013.
The Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel will sg the Natnal Anthem and LAMBDA — the Los Angel Gay Basketball League — has also been ved to the Stapl Center. 4, 2018, clud a gay athlete who me out publicly on Outsports, Harrison Wilkerson, and his soccer-player boyiend, Cody Cook. The acpanyg vio was clearly of gay and bisexual Black men, wh Edwards addg addnal disgt to his mentary.
"JT A HAPPILY FLAMBOYANT GAY MAN" - FANS SUPPORT MAGIC JOHNSON'S SON EJ AS PREGAME VIO GO VIRAL
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Aga, to be clear, the Lakers’ Pri Night was termed before Edwards’ anti-gay screed was posted on social media.
RUDY GAY CLAIMS LEBRON JAM IS A ‘DECEPTIN’
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The ments are among 78 tweets om 36 current and active NBA players on teams that are homophobic language, nature or even tent (four other players were on a roster when the list was piled last month, but they are no longer on an NBA team). The players clu CJ McCollum, the print of the Natnal Basketball Players Assn., who tweeted “no homo, ” as well as superstar Kev Durant, who tweeted “shut up fag boy.
“I don’t re how long ago was, shows the person’s character, my opn, ” said Derrick Gordon, who me out publicly as gay while playg basketball at UMass and who now plays profsnally Germany. When “Chris, ” a young NBA fan who is gay, saw the tweets, they sadned and angered him. “It was shockg but not surprisg, ” Chris said of the number of homophobic tweets he found.
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“The culture of homophobia sports ns very ep, pecially a hyper-mascule league like the NBA. Beg a big NBA fan, Chris cid to check the acunts of some of his favore players and found var homophobic tweets.
From his rearch: “Fag” showed up 29 tweets, “gay” 40 (and not plimentary), and the phrase “no homo” 17. The Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz each have four players on the list of NBA athlet who created anti-gay tweets, while the Chigo Bulls currently have three players who tweeted homophobic msag. Of the 78 homophobic tweets, 70 were sent om 2009 to 2013.