Tommy Lasorda's Legacy Inclus Silence Over HIV and His Gay Son

Contents:

• NBA LEGEND’S GAY SON REVEALS HE WAS RAPED TWICE, ONCE BY MAN HE MET ON GRDR: VIDEO
• ISIAH THOMAS SON RAPED TWICE: BEG GAY, I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO ME.
• ISIAH THOMAS' GAY SON ZEKE OPENS UP ABOUT BEG RAPED TWICE
• TOMMY LASORDA HAS DIED, NEVER HAVG ADMTED THE TTH ABOUT HIS GAY SON
• ISIAH THOMAS' GAY SON, ZEKE, IS OFFICIAL DJ FOR THE NBA ALL-STAR GAME
• NBA LEGEND ISIAH THOMAS’ GAY SON REVEALS HOW HE CAME OUT TO HIS FAY
• ISIAH THOMAS POS WH SON, JOSHUA, MPAIGN OPPOSG BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA
• THOMAS GAY

NBA LEGEND’S GAY SON REVEALS HE WAS RAPED TWICE, ONCE BY MAN HE MET ON GRDR: VIDEO

And then a uple of days later he said, let's go to Boys Town, ” the gayborhood Chigo, “for a drk. RELATED: Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas's Gay Son is DJ for the NBA All-Star Game.

In fact, Thomas said that his fay has never been anythg but supportive, particularly when he me out as gay. "Was I aaid to e out as gay to my parents?

ISIAH THOMAS SON RAPED TWICE: BEG GAY, I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO ME.

Joshua Thomas, son of NBA legend Isiah Thomas, is speakg out about a crime that has gone unrreported the gay muny for too long: forcible rape. Thomas, 28, said he was raped his Chigo apartment by a man he met on the gay datg app Grdr last year. Thomas said he hung out wh the man a rerdg stud, then several days later, he hooked up aga wh the man for a drk at a bar Boys Town, a gay neighborhood Chigo.

Thomas is the latt a long le of celebry children who have e out as gay, bisexual or transgenr, bee their famo parents weren’t there for them.

Beg gay, beg Ain-Amerin, ’s fely somethg that I never imaged would happen to me. Lasorda, Jr., who was gay.

ISIAH THOMAS' GAY SON ZEKE OPENS UP ABOUT BEG RAPED TWICE

ORIGINAL REPORT: Over nearly three s, Tommy Lasorda’s nial of his gay son’s inty has grown to legend.

Official reports the media of the time said Spunky died of “pnmonia and severe hydratn, ” and foc more on how his father would al wh managg his baseball team than wh the fact that his only son was gay. Not a “Hey world, I’m gay” way, but the sense that his teammat knew as did the management of the Los Angel Dodgers, Burke’s first team, and eventually fans who would tnt him om the outfield bleachers Oakland by llg him a “fag. ” A memorable moment “Out” occurs when is relled that the Dodgers – tryg to stifle mors that a popular player was gay — offered Burke $75, 000 to get married.

(“Spunky’), himself a gay man and the son of the team’s manager, Tommy Lasorda.

TOMMY LASORDA HAS DIED, NEVER HAVG ADMTED THE TTH ABOUT HIS GAY SON

“Spunky” Lasorda later died of AIDS and his father shamefully never acknowledged that his son was gay. “My son wasn’t gay. EDITOR’S NOTE: An unverified published mentary Friday’s Los Angel Bla claims what no one else has ever reported: that the late Tommy Lasorda not only admted his son Spunky was gay, that he died of AIDS, but that he apologized for beg a homophobe.

ISIAH THOMAS' GAY SON, ZEKE, IS OFFICIAL DJ FOR THE NBA ALL-STAR GAME

“Years later, at some chary event, not an terview, Lasorda admted that Tommy Jr was gay and had died of AIDS – and he apologized for his homophobia, ” wrote veteran journalist and former edor Karen Omb, the wner of both GLAAD and NLGJA awards.

Thomas, who is openly gay, said a man forced himself on him a year ago his New York Cy apartment. Lasorda died on Friday at the age of 93, so I began to thk about my plited relatnship wh him, and his vehement nial of his gay was a good-lookg guy, but tertgly enough, I don't rell ever havg any sort of a csh on him or any of the Major League players growg up, so my terts were purely platonic.

NBA LEGEND ISIAH THOMAS’ GAY SON REVEALS HOW HE CAME OUT TO HIS FAY

While he was on the team, was known that Burke was gay, and that Lasorda didn't like him bee of his sexualy. I bldly thought the young Lasorda jt got tragilly sick, but mors abound after he died about the real e of his ath, and about his person who would not adm to this speculatn, that he was gay and that he died of AIDS, was his father.

ISIAH THOMAS POS WH SON, JOSHUA, MPAIGN OPPOSG BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE CALIFORNIA

So, I believed his father, bee at that time a manly, bative man like Lasorda uld not have possibly had a gay son, and one who died of AIDS. It seemed que plsible that he did have a gay son who may have died of AIDS. By admtg that nial was wrong, and acknowledgg that there was nothg wrong wh his son beg gay, and nothg dishonorable about dyg om AIDS?

He was an A-lister om the celebry pal of Los Angel the 1970s through the 1990s, and he no doubt me om a generatn, and om a profsn, that thought beg gay was weak, and dyg of AIDS was shameful. Perhaps the lson we n learn om Tommy Lasorda is that the days of nial and obftn about who you are seem almost antiquated, and hopefully are headg toward 's a new generatn of ach today, like San Diego Loyal ach Landon Donovan, who pulled his team off the field after one of his players was subjected to a homophobic slur.

THOMAS GAY

I me out 2008, my sophomore year at llege. My parents like to say they always knew I was gay.

Growg up, I had gay uncl, like every kid Ameri.