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Contents:
- A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
- N.B.A. F ANTHONY EDWARDS $40,000 FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS
- NBA F MNOTA TIMBERWOLV STAR ANTHONY EDWARDS $40K FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
- NBA PLAYER 'CREDIBLY SORRY' FOR POSTG ANTI-GAY VIO TO SOCIAL MEDIA
- CAM THOMAS FED $40K FOR ANTI-GAY REMARK DURG TERVIEW
- MNOTA TIMBERWOLV GUARD ANTHONY EDWARDS FED $40,000 FOR ANTI-GAY VIO
- NBA, NETS, ACH AND PLAYERS HAVE ALL BOTCHED THE RPONSE TO KEV DURANT’S ANTI-GAY MENTS
- WHICH 5 NBA PLAYERS HAVE MA ANTI-GAY MENTS ON MERA AS CAM THOMAS' "NO HOMO" MENT REIGN BATE ON HOMOPHOBIC SLURS?
- ANTHONY EDWARDS ANTI-GAY LANGUAGE, TIMBERWOLV ISSUE SUBSTANCE-LS STATEMENT
A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
Many tweets me years ago. It don’t lsen the stg for the gay fan who disvered them, or other gay men basketball. * anti gay nba *
“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). 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.
N.B.A. F ANTHONY EDWARDS $40,000 FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS
The NBA has fed Mnota Timberwolv forward Anthony Edwards $40,000 for makg anti-gay ments a social media post. * anti gay nba *
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 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 F MNOTA TIMBERWOLV STAR ANTHONY EDWARDS $40K FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Kev Durant ed the most graphic anti-gay language I’ve ever heard om a pro athlete. The NBA rponse? Crickets. * anti gay nba *
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.
NBA PLAYER 'CREDIBLY SORRY' FOR POSTG ANTI-GAY VIO TO SOCIAL MEDIA
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.
CAM THOMAS FED $40K FOR ANTI-GAY REMARK DURG TERVIEW
“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.
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.
MNOTA TIMBERWOLV GUARD ANTHONY EDWARDS FED $40,000 FOR ANTI-GAY VIO
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.
NBA, NETS, ACH AND PLAYERS HAVE ALL BOTCHED THE RPONSE TO KEV DURANT’S ANTI-GAY MENTS
“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.
WHICH 5 NBA PLAYERS HAVE MA ANTI-GAY MENTS ON MERA AS CAM THOMAS' "NO HOMO" MENT REIGN BATE ON HOMOPHOBIC SLURS?
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. “If someone talks about puttg a bullet someone’s head, that’s beyond ‘I hate gay people, ’” Nimo said.
ANTHONY EDWARDS ANTI-GAY LANGUAGE, TIMBERWOLV ISSUE SUBSTANCE-LS STATEMENT
The onle prence of the tweets 2022, even though wrten years ago, pots to a cultural problem wh athlet and anti-gay language. Kda homo “/2014Kev Durant“shut up fag boy”/2009“you sound gay son”/2009New York Knicks.