Players on 22 NFL teams have already had an out gay teammate, cludg six players wh the Arizona Cardals.
Contents:
- SOME CARDALS FANS ARE FREAKG OUT ABOUT GAY PRI NIGHT AT BCH STADIUM
- WHY PHOTO OF BASEBALL PLAYER BEG KISSED STCK CHORD WH CLOSETED GAY FAN
- ARIANS: FANS A PROBLEM FOR GAY PLAYER
- THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
SOME CARDALS FANS ARE FREAKG OUT ABOUT GAY PRI NIGHT AT BCH STADIUM
The Cardals announced a Gay Pri Night Augt at Bch Stadium and some of the Bt Fans Baseball are not happy about . * gay cardinals fans *
The photo prompted an email exchange I had wh a gay baseball fan, whose inty or tails I won’t disclose bee he is the closet. What is so strikg about this public display of affectn is that there is so much homophobia pro sports and yet this assistant ach don’t re.
Pro sports has been credibly homophobic for s. Male athlet, whether straight, bi, or gay, have been forced to hi behd a wall of macho perceptn and mata a certa image of macho to all. This photo shows that hopefully that wall is cmblg when an assistant ach is not aaid to show his love (of any kd) for a young player on his birthday and btow a sign of affectn (whether be straight, bi, or gay) on him pla view of everyone the dugout (and obvly wh photographers prent.
What I like is that my emailer do not assume the ach is gay (Turner has a wife and three kids) but that we should celebrate public displays of affectn between men given how we are hard-wired om a young age to avoid them. Bean, a former MLB player who 1999 me out publicly as gay, and Dunngton were Friday’s honored guts of the Cardals for the anizatn’s first official LGBT Pri Night. Dunngton, who 2016 me out publicly as gay, felt driven out of baseball by homophobic language ed by his teammat durg his first year the Cardals’ Mor League system, and he retired om baseball and left the Cardals anizatn after the 2014 season.
WHY PHOTO OF BASEBALL PLAYER BEG KISSED STCK CHORD WH CLOSETED GAY FAN
While fans prott outsi, Cardals brg back gay Mor Leaguer for Pri Night. * gay cardinals fans *
We n be Christian and gay, too. Hille, who is Christian and gay, attend the game wh Cheri Simher, who is also gay. “We don’t want Ballpark Village or Bch Stadium to be takg our queer money and panrg to this way — Sorry we ved that bigoted speaker, but here’s gay pri night, e spend money, ” Burghoff said.
Mozeliak was ont of a microphone for more than 30 mut before Friday’s game, and he never said lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or LGBT. He did say “homosexual” once. “Whether ’s somebody that is homosexual, whether ’s someone that is om a foreign untry, you don’t want them to feel like they’re phg the rock up a hill and they’re not gog to be succsful bee of their fear and timidatn of what might be gog on the clubhoe, ” Mozeliak said.
ARIANS: FANS A PROBLEM FOR GAY PLAYER
Arizona Cardals ach Bce Arians told on Wednday that he believ NFL players and ach would be acceptg of an openly-gay player but he's not so sure fans would feel the same way. * gay cardinals fans *
Cardals manager Mike Matheny, who spoke ahead of Lance Berkman at July’s Christian Day ceremony, also didn’t say lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or LGBT when speakg to the media before Friday’s game. “I’ve been around lbian, gay and transgenr [people]. Erik Hall is a member of the Associated Prs Sports Edors, Natnal Sports Media Associatn, and the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn.
News servicJun 19, 2013, 12:35 PM ETArizona Cardals ach Bce Arians told on Wednday he believ that NFL players and ach would be acceptg of an openly gay player, but he's not so sure fans would feel the same way. Some of the thgs that are said are over the top and out of ntrol that I n image what some fans would say to an openly gay player.
THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
"League spokman Greg Aiello told USA Today Sports April that the NFL would be prepared to monor appropriate fan reactn to an openly gay player. I'm glad he had the urage to say that bee a lot of ach kiss up to the people but I rpect , I gotta thank him for when I get back to [Arizona], " Barkley the first time, the NFL Rookie Symposium will clu speakers on the issue of sexual orientatn, the league's chief human rourc officer, Robert Gulliver, told on league plans to have former players, whom they are llg ambassadors, speak about the possibily of havg a gay teammate and how to talk about the issu publicly, Gulliver said.
St Louis Cardals fans are parable to gay men who went through nversn therapy, only to have the effects eventually wear off. Today we ran a story about Tyler Dunngton, the gay former Mor Leaguer for the St.
Louis Cardals who qu baseball bee of the homophobia he wnsed. Some people still believe that the NFL is a “homophobic” monolh where ’s “dangero” to be gay.