An effort by European soccer feratns to highlight gay rights uld force a llisn between FIFA l and social mpaigns.
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5 GAY ATHLET WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
Derrick Gordon, the first openly gay player Divisn 1 llege basketball acced the NBA of not givg him a fair shot to try out bee of his sexualy. “Hontly, the NBA is not ready for an openly gay player right now, ” he said. They are showg young, gay athlet that they n be hont and open about who they are and also succeed the sport of their choice.
Here are a few gay athlet who have ma a difference sports simply by g out and beg proud to be themselv. Jason Colls NBA player Jason Colls was drafted by the Hoton Rockets 2001 and played twelve seasons before g out as gay a Sports Illtrated ver story. He said that he chose to wear the jersey number “98” honour of Matthew Shepard who was killed an antigay hate crime 1998.
When Colls played his last season the NBA wh the Brooklyn Nets he bee the first publicly gay athlete to play any of the four major North Amerin pro team sports leagu. Many people believe pro sports to be one of the last areas where homophobia was still proment but Colls g out was a step the right directn for acceptance of gay pro athlet everywhere.