Hardaway -- Anti-gay rant keeps me out of Hall - ESPN

Contents:

• THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
• RAPPER BOOSIE BADAZZ UNR FIRE FOR ANTI-GAY RANT TARGETG LIL NAS X
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• HOMOPHOBE WHO BURNED A PRI FLAG DURG A FUR HATE-FILLED ANTI-GAY RANT DID NOT M A HATE CRIME
• HARDAWAY: ANTI-GAY RANT KEEPS ME OUT OF HALL
• MAN RERDS HIS MOTHER’S VILE ANTI-GAY RELIG RANT AFTER HE TELLS HER HE IS ENGAGED
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• TRACY MAN RETURNS TO NASHVILLE TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANTI-GAY RANT
• GAYNGST
• DN ACTOR TALKS ABOUT HIS FAL FANTASY 16 CHARACTER, GAY REPRENTATN, AND MORE

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

Maybe they should terrogate their own prient terts other people’s love, get at the root and figure out why the ia of male timacy ril the past few weeks, several rappers have ma sensive — or full-on homophobic — statements about gay people. About a week after DaBaby’s rant, Boosie Badazz, a hip-hop artist who me up the 1990s, went after Lil Nas X, one of the rare rappers who are openly, unapologetilly, explosns-of-glter gay, threateng to asslt me say first that the untry has quickly evolved on the acceptance of gayns, and that clus an evolutn among Black people.

RAPPER BOOSIE BADAZZ UNR FIRE FOR ANTI-GAY RANT TARGETG LIL NAS X

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Homophob often e the same tactic, claimg that they are protectg children om is precisely the fense Boosie Badazz ed when appearg on “The Breakfast Club” rad show, at one pot seemgly exprsg a fear that if rappers didn’t speak out agast certa exprsns of gayns, an entire generatn of children uld be aga, to clarify: There is no amount of exposure that n make a straight man prefer a penis or a gay one prefer a vaga.

Sexual attractn and sexualy jt don’t work that this simplistic notn of sexualy oms is that there are also gay children who have known they were different for as long as they have known anythg, and those children serve reprentatn and visibily; they need to know that there is nothg wrong, broken or evil about them, so that they, too, n feel normal and seen. Kriech, who has lived Webster for 13 years but has cid to move to Mneapolis after the cint, add: “I don’t thk ’s right, not only for me – but for the gay muny – gay people who live small muni who are aaid to e out.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

That only changed when they eventually adopted a dog — the ultimate judgement-ee pann — that they all said saved their many have told me — and what I personally know to be te as a Black gay man — is that to stop this vis om ntug to ravage muni for another 40 years, we have to stop rcg the people whose liv impacts to harmful stereotyp about the disease they rry the ways Kirk did (twice). On Monday, DaBaby posted vio on his Instagram Live which he took those cricizg him to task, sayg straight and gay fans enjoyed his show, and what happened there is not the bs of anyone who wasn’t attendance. DaBaby has e unr fire for homophobic remarks he ma while on stage at the Rollg Loud Miami mic ftival over the Charlotte, North Carola, performer—whose given name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk—is facg cricism for makg disparagg ments about gay people and people livg wh HIV/ footage at the show shows the 29-year-old rapper sayg the followg remarks.

HOMOPHOBE WHO BURNED A PRI FLAG DURG A FUR HATE-FILLED ANTI-GAY RANT DID NOT M A HATE CRIME

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HARDAWAY: ANTI-GAY RANT KEEPS ME OUT OF HALL

"Sce Man's June 3rd performance, he has teamed up wh the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, met wh homels gay teens and a mom who lost her child to anti-gay vlence, agreed to participate an anti-bullyg PSA and lled homophobia "a sickns.

"Siciliano said durg the hour that Man met wh two teens and mother Elke Kennedy, whose son Sean was a victim of anti-gay vlence, he appeared scere, listeng attentively and relatg some of his own experienc to soon as the meetg was over, however, Man began to cry. Man took upon himself to mentn about how he feels all this gay s**t was crazy and that women are a gift om God and that 'Born this Way' is bulls**t, gay is a choice, and the reason he knows this is exactly bee 'God don't make no mistak.

"His remarks were roundly nmned by GLAAD and other gay rights' groups; NBC print Bob Greenblatt, who said his ments "will not be tolerated"; and "30 Rock" creator Ta Fey, who found the route "disturbg to me at a time when homophobic hate crim ntue to be a life-threateng issue.

MAN RERDS HIS MOTHER’S VILE ANTI-GAY RELIG RANT AFTER HE TELLS HER HE IS ENGAGED

Dpe the olr meang of the word "gay, " gay characters fictn tend to be a miserable lot, and not by simple cince — their misery n be attributed largely to their sexualy or, more accurately, other people's attus towards . Characters sufferg om gayngst are prone to alholism and other forms of substance abe, self-loathg, Self-Harm, rampant homophobia towards themselv and others, rejectn by homophobic fay members, fallg tragic unrequed love wh heterosexuals, ntemplatg (and often mtg) suici, and wishg that they were straight. Gayngst is a Pet-Peeve Trope of many bee while ually portrays gay people sympathetilly and addrs an issue many gay people Real Life go through, n be terpreted as sayg that 's impossible to be gay whout beg miserable, or that gay people don't serve Happy Endgs, or at s very worst and most eptly-handled, gay relatnships are nately disastro.

If the story wants an upliftg tone, the character will eventually e to terms wh their sexualy, have the obligatory Comg-Out Story, and eher live Happily Ever After wh their love tert or morph to some other gay archetype (ually Straight Gay or Lipstick Lbian; eher this is their natural personaly or they still have some lgerg secury). Don't e up que as often works wh a Cast Full of Gay — even if a uple of characters are of the angsty persuasn, they're ually balanced out by the rt of the st such a way that the Unfortunate Implitns are done away wh.

Dependg on how they're played, n be a Sub-Trope of Bullied to Deprsn, Why Couldn't You Be Different?, Internalized Categorism, Boomerang Bigot, and You Are What You Hate, and a Super-Trope of Inpatible Orientatn, Armoured Closet Gay, Out of the Closet, Into the Fire, Homophobic Hate Crime, and Gayngst-Induced Suici. Sayaka Saeki is mostly ntent wh beg gay, even though her feelgs for Too go unrequed, but took que hard when her senpai at her old school broke up wh her and apologized for makg her like gays, due to seeg homosexualy as a "phase" (which is actually a pretty monly held belief Japan; see Gay Romantic Phase for more tails).

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Setsuna's angst is ls about the fact that she is que thoroughly gay for Konoka, than that she thks herself of the wrong social class for the Ojou of a very rich fay, and that she feels unworthy of her. In Octave, Shri go through two rounds of gayngst: the first wh her girliend, who dumps her and returns to her former lover and the send wh Yo, to whom she offers a muddled nfsn mixed wh love and lt, and is met wh rejectn. Averted spe the explic Inpatible Orientatn on Outlaw Star; Fred Luo is perfectly fortable wh his nature as a Camp Gay merchant and even though he profs his undyg love for Gene Starwd, he's perfectly aware of the fact the heterosexual Gene don't reciprote and fact seems to enjoy teasg him by flirtg.

Probably the most extreme example of gayngst Milk Moraga's work would be Miu's angst about her feelgs towards Fujiwara Secret of the Prcs, which nearly rults her jumpg off their school buildg's roof before Fujiwara talks her down. Army regulatns require the discharge of any soldier nfirmed to be homosexual, and Kate's refal to lie about herself rulted her beg "separated" om the army, endg the only dream she has had sce she was ten years old. His suatn is even worse an alternate realy where he never left Mars: the people of his village shun him for his homosexualy and force him to live the hospable wilrns, and they eventually try to kill him by burng down his home, mortally woundg his lover the procs.

TRACY MAN RETURNS TO NASHVILLE TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANTI-GAY RANT

The disntued Chick Tract "Wound Children", f this to a T (although is also full of Narm), bee of his views of homosexualy Chick's tracts on the subject had the msage "There is nothg gay about beg gay" before shiftg to "Those who support or tolerate homosexualy are evil".

GAYNGST

They have several stanc of Unrolved Sexual Tensn and Distracted by the Sexy until she dnkenly tells Megane her feelgs, but that mak Vicky realize that she n never be happy sce her parents are homophobic and clearly stated they wouldn't hate to disown her if she was gay ('s actually the only thg they still agree on). Inversn: In "Lovg Gay Men", a rewre of the Swan Lake/Crella story, "A Heart Full of Dreams", by Jeanne Martet (found Ter Than Te Romance), Lora falls for Alex before disverg that he is her gay hoemate's new boyiend. Gay superhero uple Midnighter and Apollo were created to avoid this trope like the plague, wh pecially Midnighter beg a very "out and proud" Manly Gay but his lover/hband Apollo also beg pletely unnflicted about his sexualy.

Als wh Jenny's bt iend Terry and her gradual realizatn that she's homosexual, engagg wh this trope the procs — particular, Terry at one pot tearfully pleads wh Zot to know whether, his Utopian superheroic 'world of the future! A Magil Eveng has que a lot of this, wh Sofia and Lucda beg terrified for much of the early chapters of what will happen if Sofia’s fay fds out about their relatnship and Hilgard and Cl beg closeted while havg homophobic parents, somethg Cl adms was hell.

DN ACTOR TALKS ABOUT HIS FAL FANTASY 16 CHARACTER, GAY REPRENTATN, AND MORE

However, Le gets more secure about when he has a nightmare where his brothers beat him up while shoutg homophobic slurs, his mom cri over havg a gay son (he's bisexual but they don't see the difference), and his dad angrily throws him out of the hoe, while Lka is helpls to stop all. In the Hannah Montana fic "Thirst", when Miley realis that she's love wh Lilly she spends time agonisg over how her fay will react, rellg such past stanc as her father sayg nothg about an cint where a boy back Nebraska was beaten up for wantg to take another boy to prom or Jackson always lghg at gay jok. Lampshad As Good as It Gets, when straight Melv (Jack Nicholson) asks gay Simon (Greg Knear) after all the horrible thgs that have happened to him if he thks his life would have been easier if he were straight, which Simon to ask back: "Do you nsir your life easy?

Essentially the whole plot of The Children's Hour, which Martha (Shirley MacLae) is persecuted by homophobic accatns based on the malic misterpretatn of her pletely platonic iendship wh Karen (Audrey Hepburn). In Mar (2018), Mar and Leon suffer homophobic bullyg om their Associatn Football teammat, which clus gay porn taped si Mar's locker, a pk dildo left his shirt, and a letter sent to his dad that says, "Your son sucks dicks stead of srg goals. In a meta sense, however, this trope was subverted; not only is there somethg of a happy endg for Trevor, but the film beme the basis of The Trevor Project, a suici preventn hotle for LGBT+ youth, givg people wh their own gayngst to al wh a place to go to for help.