Candice Wiggs says 98 percent of WNBA is gay, claims she was bullied for beg straight

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• CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
• THE EXTRA HOOPS GAY PARENTS MT JUMP THROUGH
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT

(AP)The WNBA has historilly been the most forward-thkg sports league Ameri when to gay rights. While the WNBA hasn’t always ma the LGBTQ muny proud wh how choos to promote and acmodate s gay players, ’s fair to say that they’ve ma meangful stris.

In a new terview wh the San Diego Unn-Tribune, Wiggs says that “98 percent” of the WNBA is gay and that she would have played two more years if not for the “toxic” environment that affected her as a straight woman:“I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend self to my mental state, ” Wiggs said.

“I would say 98 percent of the women the WNBA are gay women.

THE EXTRA HOOPS GAY PARENTS MT JUMP THROUGH

So acrdg to the numbers, I intify as gay now— Deverex Peters (@MsPeters14) Febary 20, 2017It’s tough to asss all of Wiggs’s statements, bee she is ultimately scribg a personal experience that have not yet been refuted. That piece did not feature any explic reference to the prsure of beg straight a very gay ’s difficult to read this piece, then, whout wonrg exactly where Wiggs is g om. Usg hyperbole to make a pot is not herently wrong, but dog to st a historilly margalized group (gay women, many of whom are also black) as a bullyg force rais ncerns.

"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns. "I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said.

Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay.

Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay. At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone.

STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL

"Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said. "I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said. For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease.

"At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay. " Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy. " At the time, Zevran was a gogo dancer performg gay clubs.

" The Tim also wrote that gay men ed a sgle ear piercg the right ear to dite sexual preference. " Also mentned was the prevailg wisdom that the right ear signaled the wearer was gay.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

Two years later, a piece markg the trend toward hoops for men, the Inquirer spoke to Joe Nulty, a straight stunt whose jaw was broken a gay fight started bee someone thought his earrgs meant he was 1989 Ebony, actor Philip Michael Thomas explaed his cisn to pierce, sayg "I was 11 when [... "Twenty years later, T Magaze repeated what is by now a faiar sayg for some, "Left is right, and right is wrong, " ( this se, "wrong" beg a phemism for "gay.