The Only 3 Out, Gay NBA Players In History - Sports Nostalgia HQ

Contents:

• HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
• A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
• FORMER NBA, KENTUCKY PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS ONLY ACTIVE GAY PLAYER TOP-TIER MEN'S BASKETBALL
• THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
• NBA PLAYERS WHO HAVE OPENLY COME OUT AS GAY: THE STORY BEHD TEANNA TMP AND “GAY” NBA PLAYER

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

When John Amaechi me out publicly 2007, he was ahead of his time, sharg that he’s gay and a former profsnal basketball player.

Sce Colls showed the world you uld be a gay man profsnal basketball, there has been a trickle of gay athlet to follow, most recently former NBA player and current Atralian pro basketball player Isaac Humphri. Here are the gay men who have blazed a trail on basketball urts around the world. 24-year-old Isaac Humphri, who played the Natnal Basketball Associatn (NBA) over the urse of his profsnal reer, has now e out as a gay man.

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

In recent years, Humphri returned to Atralia and signed on wh teams such as the Alai 36ers and the Melbourne Wednday, November 16, Humphri wrote an op-ed for CNN where he tailed his reer basketball and me out as gay. "Over my entire reer, there was no realy that existed where I uld be an openly gay man while playg basketball, " he wrote.

"He ntued: "You n be a gay man and an ele basketball player one of the bt leagu the world. 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.

FORMER NBA, KENTUCKY PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS ONLY ACTIVE GAY PLAYER TOP-TIER MEN'S BASKETBALL

“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.

THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY

“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.

NBA PLAYERS WHO HAVE OPENLY COME OUT AS GAY: THE STORY BEHD TEANNA TMP AND “GAY” NBA PLAYER

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.

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.