Baylor's Brtney Grer has revealed she is gay. The No. 1 overall pick the recent WNBA Draft explaed why was no big al for her to e out.
Contents:
- WNBA'S BRTNEY GRER ON BEG A GAY ATHLETE: I FELT LIKE HALF OF ME WASN'T ACCEPTED
- COLUMN: ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS A PUT REGIME CREATN. BRTNEY GRER IS S PRISONER
- BRTNEY GRER DISCS BEG GAY
- BAYLOR STAR BRTNEY GRER ACKNOWLEDG SHE IS GAY
WNBA'S BRTNEY GRER ON BEG A GAY ATHLETE: I FELT LIKE HALF OF ME WASN'T ACCEPTED
Brtney Grer, the No. 1 pick the WNBA draft, acknowledged Wednday terviews that she is gay. * is brittney griner gay *
But as a gay woman, she also felt burned by a policy wrten to the stunt handbook at her private Christian universy, which banned homosexual behavr and advocy for LGBT issu, she tells PEOPLE exclively for a portfol of gay profsnal athlet who discs their cisn to play and live openly. But after beg out to iends and fay at home Hoton om the age of 15, Grer, now, 23, says the school’s official stance – which she didn’t disver until the start of her sophomore year – ed tensn, pecially when a ach lled Grer to her office after she sent a Tweet to her then-girliend.
COLUMN: ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS A PUT REGIME CREATN. BRTNEY GRER IS S PRISONER
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For more on Brtney Grer and the exclive portfol of gay profsnal athlet, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now. Pro Gay Athlet Share Their Movg Stori. Brtney Grer is openly gay and has been public about her sexual orientatn for many years.
How did Brtney Grer’s father react to her g out as gay? ”Sce 1993, is no longer illegal to be LGBTQ Rsia, but sce adoptg the “gay propaganda” law 2013, is illegal to talk about around a ’s right, Vladimir Put created a “don’t say gay” bill first.
BRTNEY GRER DISCS BEG GAY
Perhaps some elected officials eyeg their own versn of a “don’t say gay” law unr the guise of protectg children should take a moment of pse. Over the past two s, Mulkey has exhibed a pattern of disfort wh the topic of gay and lbian athlet.
In the summer of 2012, for example, Mulkey spoke to Outsports -founr Cyd Zeigler, who asked her a simple qutn: “Have you ever had a gay player on your team? At the time, of urse, Mulkey was g off a 2012 natnal tle at Baylor large part bee she had a gay player on her team: Fal Four Most Outstandg Player Brney Grer, who was the closet throughout her Baylor reer.
BAYLOR STAR BRTNEY GRER ACKNOWLEDG SHE IS GAY
And Mulkey gave this answer spe the fact that Grer had rmed Mulkey that she was gay when she was reced. “Coach Mulkey is a member of an athletic partment, a school, a town, a state and even a regn that is known for s nservative belief system, which very much clus homophobia. As lear and in each of the arenas, Coach Mulkey has been unfairly sgled out as particularly homophobic based on what happened wh me and then Brtney Grer.
Nkosi further asserted that “I had no ia what Coach Mulkey would actually say if I told her I was gay 2005, but I had enough rmatn om my life experienc to be aaid. Perhaps, as Nkosi impli, Mulkey’s worldview uld benef by leavg such a homophobic environment.
By agreeg to the LSU job, Mulkey is takg her personal history of aligng wh the stutnalized homophobia at Baylor to a public universy wh over 31, 000 stunts and numero LGBTQ+ stunt anizatns. “It’s a statement about the value of women, ’s a statement about the value of a Black person, ’s a statement about the value of a gay person — all those thgs. "I hope that havg someone that high profile, who was of natnal polil ncern − stead of jt beg known the sports world − will help fight agast homophobia, " she believ Grer’s human characteristics such as her playfulns, generosy and her big-hearted nature n be huge assets.