Insir is highlightg out and proud athlet who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and more honor of pri month.
Contents:
- A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
- THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
- THE N-B-GAY: OUT OF COMG OUT
- NBA STAR NICK YOUNG ADDRS GAY MORS AFTER BEG PHOTOGRAPHED WH ANOTHER MAN
- TOP 3 NBA PLAYERS WHO ARE GAY FEAT. JASON COLLS AND MORE
- NBA GAY STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
- NBA COMMISH ADAM SILVER TURNS UP ON GAY PRI PARA FLOAT
- JASON COLLS SAYS HE'S GAY
- IS NBA YOUNGBOY GAY? CHIGO RAPPER MAK SHOCKG ALLEGATN ABOUT IYANNA MAYWEATHER'S BOYIEND
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- NBA YOUNGBOY NFIRMED BEG GAY
- RUMOR: LAKERS, WARRRS AMONG POTENTIAL RUDY GAY SUORS EE AGENCY
- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
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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. * nba gay pictures *
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.
THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
There have only been two openly gay NBA players. Jason Colls beme the first active player to e out 2013. John Amaechi me out 2007 after he retired. * nba gay pictures *
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.
THE N-B-GAY: OUT OF COMG OUT
Like wh other major men’s sports, the NBA still has no openly gay players. If you’re lookg for a clue as to why, look at a Twter ntroversy that popped up November volvg Washgton Wizards center Dwight Howard. * nba gay pictures *
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. “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.
NBA STAR NICK YOUNG ADDRS GAY MORS AFTER BEG PHOTOGRAPHED WH ANOTHER MAN
Fd the perfect nba gay stock photo, image, vector, illtratn or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensg. * nba gay pictures *
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. 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. Oshae Brissett of the Indiana Pacers, now 23, was 12 and 13 when he posted ne homophobic tweets a two-year span.
TOP 3 NBA PLAYERS WHO ARE GAY FEAT. JASON COLLS AND MORE
NBA center Jason Colls on Monday announced that he's gay a story for Sports Illtrated, beg the first active player one of the four major Amerin profsnal team sports to announce that he is gay. * nba gay pictures *
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. 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.
The onle prence of the tweets 2022, even though wrten years ago, pots to a cultural problem wh athlet and anti-gay language. Pl Reed“Bch be gay today, bi tommorow, and pregnant sunday ha”/2014 “Why is so many niggas drs up like girls and putt on wigs tryna be funny.
NBA GAY STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
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Mallm Hill“homo# LOL”/2011Zach LaVe “@perrnTF @juice_wilson49 both y’all r gay”/2014Javonte Green“You gay for subbg”/2016Cleveland Cavaliers.
NBA COMMISH ADAM SILVER TURNS UP ON GAY PRI PARA FLOAT
Iyanna Mayweather's boyiend, NBA YoungBoy, is known for havg a msy personal and profsnal life. But, this latt accatn om a risg rap star adds a whole new dimensn to the mss. Is YoungBoy NBA gay? * nba gay pictures *
Oshae Brissett“This guy is sooooo gay on my b”/2012“you want all the guys on the street to love you ew your gay”/2012“you sound like a girl.. Youyr so gay lool”/2012“OMFG why gods good name would anyone cut them self for a fag”/2013“Callg your iend a fag on bbm but then you realize that you sent to your mom”/2012“you are a fag”/2013“follow me back fag”/2012“get off my twter you fag/2013@TheRealtEver_ fag”/2012Hoton Rockets. Jae’Sean Tate“u shut up fag boy”/2011“ur I nt believe wat u showed me today/2011“#gay”/2011Dallas Mavericks.
Montrezl Harrell“no u fag you are talkg to the worlds ltlt man Jordan smh”/2012“you gay don’t @ me no more for real”/2011“This nigga the barber shop is gay as hell smh”/2012“SpongeBob Tho >> ^__^ ♥♥he gay”/2012“Trezl & India Fsg About Spongebob -__- Lol he’s gay”/2012. Facundo Campazzo“ gay”/2016Jam Ennis III“fag lol”/2012“@ChristianPerez1: Tanic is on:) (no homo)” I love that move”/2011JaMychal Green“dnt play w me koolaid will get put on his head if he try some gay”/2010“lol i got you i nt wave thats gay but ill salute you”/2011“Fna load my iPod up w new mic while I tch up on some #Dexter season 3... Cuz he gy w da homo azzss Shyt lmao/2010Nah’Shon “Bon” Hyland“you chicks really be blsed wh beg pretty & you really turn gay??
JASON COLLS SAYS HE'S GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * nba gay pictures *
Jared Butler“That gay du msed up”/2014Jordan Clarkson“naw Rick #yotillsglebee u still got homo tennci lol”/2010Rudy Gay “Can someone tell @RasualButler45 to holla at me!
Robert Covgton“@CIROCOBAMA252 nigga you gay lol”/2011Norman Powell“@PureEnouGhh you be act gay yo”/2010Phoenix Suns.
Jon Tke“@Dillon_munoz gay”/2013Michael Carter-Williams“pse mega gay”/2011Zylan Cheatham “and you are right aga. The LGBT movement emerged as early as the 1870s, but homosexual rights groups didn't appear until after World War II September 1945.
IS NBA YOUNGBOY GAY? CHIGO RAPPER MAK SHOCKG ALLEGATN ABOUT IYANNA MAYWEATHER'S BOYIEND
Recently released by the Thunr, veteran forward Rudy Gay is beg targeted by multiple teams, cludg the Lakers and Warrrs. * nba gay pictures *
To add onto the topic of the Warrrs, print Rick Welts me out as gay an terview wh the New York Tim 2011. Homophobia is somethg that shouldn't have a place sports bee LGBT folks n be fans, media members, employe and executiv too.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
" We, as a untry, need to une and not jt bee of the tragic gay nightclub shootg Orlando, Florida, that occurred last summer. His fay reportedly had mixed emotns towards the announcement, but he still changed the game, beg the first Divisn I men's basketball player to e out as gay and play gam.
He also received praise om Colls and former NFL fensive end Michael Sam, who beme the first openly gay football player. When then-Phoenix Suns print and CEO Rick Welts me out as gay May 2011, former NBA pot guard Steve Nash pledged his support favor of the LGBT muny.
NBA YOUNGBOY NFIRMED BEG GAY
Nash said the vio, "A growg number of profsnal athlet are speakg out support of gay and lbian upl gettg married, I'm proud to be one of them. Asi om his open support for gay rights, he also ns the Steve Nash Foundatn, which helps children who are affected by poverty, illns, abe or neglect, and creat opportuny for tn, play, and empowerment, Phoenix, Arizona, and Brish Columbia, Canada. In his hman year at Villanova, he first me out as gay to his teammate and roommate Mike Villa before nfsg to his parents three months later.
There's hardly any Hispanic players, no Asian-Amerins, so that there's no openly gay players is no real surprise.
Last year, the NBA moved s 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carola, due to the state's law that lims anti-discrimatn protectns for lbian, gay and transgenr people.
RUMOR: LAKERS, WARRRS AMONG POTENTIAL RUDY GAY SUORS EE AGENCY
Quickly she learned that, by then, the NBA and WNBA had veloped a mutual culture of cln for gay and lbian people.
So when two gay men — Drew Tagliabue wh PFLAG and Ken Mehlman wh GLSEN — approached her about embracg the LGBTQ muny, Behrens was all ears.
NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
It was an ia prented by GLSEN — a PSA about stampg out the pejorative term “that’s so gay” — that piqued her tert.
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So 2011 the NBA fund and shot a PSA wh Grant Hill and Jared Dudley talkg about the need to elimate “sually homophobic” language om sports and society. Rick Welts and Jason Colls, two gay trailblazers the NBA, are both honore on the 2023 Outsports Power 100. As Welts built a Hall of Fame reer the NBA ont office, as well as wh the Suns and Goln State Warrrs, his secret — he was gay wh a boyiend — stuck wh him.
Those NBA teams brought attus about gays and lbians that were at tim fearful their prence the WNBA might sre away non-LGBTQ fans. Shortly after, Lippard and Welts — who had heard about each other whispers about gay men the league — fed a iendship, and Welts beme an important mentor for Lippard.
“Adam and I uld have wonrful nversatns about the work environments we were , and beg gay this kd of dtry and what we uld acplish beg out and the abily to share that.