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- A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
- LGBTQ FLORIDA: GAY & LBIAN WALKG TOUR MIAMI BEACH
- INSI GAYTHERG: MIAMI'S FIRST LGBTQ HOTEL
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.
“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.
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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.
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.
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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.