Gay NBA fan fds 78 anti gay tweets by 40 players on 23 teams - Outsports

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• 13 OF THE BT GAY TWEETS OF THE WEEK
• 14 OF THE BT GAY TWEETS OF THE WEEK
• GAY TWEETS
• A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
• 15 SUUUPER FUNNY GAY TWEETS FROM THIS WEEK
• 17 HILAR GAY TWEETS TO CELEBRATE GAY PRI
• 16 HILAR GAY TWEETS OF THE WEEK
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• 13 OF THE BT GAY TWEETS OF THE WEEK

13 OF THE BT GAY TWEETS OF THE WEEK

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14 OF THE BT GAY TWEETS OF THE WEEK

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A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS

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“I hate gay dus”. 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).

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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.

17 HILAR GAY TWEETS TO CELEBRATE GAY PRI

“It was shockg but not surprisg, ” Chris said of the number of homophobic tweets he found. “The culture of homophobia sports ns very ep, pecially a hyper-mascule league like the NBA.

16 HILAR GAY TWEETS OF THE WEEK

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.

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Of the 78 homophobic tweets, 70 were sent om 2009 to 2013.

Not cintally, Jason Colls beme the first active NBA player to e out as gay 2013, raisg signifint awarens of LGBTQ issu — and the prence of gay players — the NBA. For example, Durant 2013 voiced his support of Colls, but he also ma graphilly homophobic ments 2021. The NBA also might be takg a stricter le on homophobic ments by players.

So ’s possible that players wh anti-gay views simply don’t exprs them publicly today. “Culture as a whole has changed, ” said Anthony Nimo, a succsful high school basketball ach New York who me out publicly as gay several years ago. Colls — who played as an openly gay player the last uple regular-season months and then playoffs of the 2013-14 season — has been speakg to NBA rooki at the league’s annual symposium sce 2015.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Readg [the tweets] remd me a lot of my journal that I kept, and I stopped after two weeks, bee was jt … you hear , but you don’t really realize how much sual homophobia there was. Speakg om my experience, there is a disnnect sometim between someone who sual homophobia, and then once you show them who you are, they will step up and have your back. “I’ve been openly gay for many years now.

I’ve seen 12-year-olds beat up their classmat for beg gay. Oshae Brissett of the Indiana Pacers, now 23, was 12 and 13 when he posted ne homophobic tweets a two-year span. “you want all the guys on the street to love you ew your gay”.

Youyr so gay lool”. One mon slur ed var tweets was “no homo, ” which me to vogue over 10 years ago as a way for a man to pliment another man whout beg taken “the wrong way. “‘No homo’ as a phrase promot a negative nnotatn regards to gay men, as if we are ls-than, ” Chris said.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

As a ach and tor, Nimo said he still hears “no homo” around teenagers — even beg out as a gay man — though the culture basketball has improved.

“Kids today sometim say ‘no homo’ or somethg like that, but there has unqutnably been a shift, ” he said.

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“If someone talks about puttg a bullet someone’s head, that’s beyond ‘I hate gay people, ’” Nimo said. The onle prence of the tweets 2022, even though wrten years ago, pots to a cultural problem wh athlet and anti-gay language.

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Kda homo “/2014Kev Durant“shut up fag boy”/2009“you sound gay son”/2009New York Knicks.

Evan Fournier In French ed “no homo” two 2012 tweetsPhilalphia 76ers. Pl Reed“Bch be gay today, bi tommorow, and pregnant sunday ha”/2014 “Why is so many niggas drs up like girls and putt on wigs tryna be funny.

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Sh gay 100%”/2015. Fred VanVleet“stop all that gay sh”/2012Chigo Bulls.

13 OF THE BT GAY TWEETS OF THE WEEK

Mallm Hill“homo# LOL”/2011Zach LaVe “@perrnTF @juice_wilson49 both y’all r gay”/2014Javonte Green“You gay for subbg”/2016Cleveland Cavaliers.