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Contents:

• WHY A JU SCHOOL WAS RIGHT REFG TO FIRE A GAY TEACHER
• KOBE BRYANT MAY HAVE ED A GAY SLUR
• KOBE BRYANT FED $100,000 OVER GAY SLUR LAKERS GAME
• LAKERS’ KOBE BRYANT IS FED $100,000 BY NBA FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR TO REFEREE
• KOBE BRYANT TAK ONE BIG LEAP FOR THE NBA ON GAY SLURS
• LAKERS, NBA MEET WH GLAAD AFTER KOBE GAY SLUR
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS KOBE
• REFEREE BILL KENNEDY, FOLLOWG SLUR BY RAJON RONDO, ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
• DETRANSNER BTERLY REGRETS HAVG TTICL REMOVED AFTER STGGLG WH BEG GAY
• KOBE BRYANT FED $100,000 FOR GAY SLUR

WHY A JU SCHOOL WAS RIGHT REFG TO FIRE A GAY TEACHER

Kobe Bryant beme an LGBTQ equaly advote after directg an anti-gay slur at an NBA referee. It was watchg his transformatn om the man who was fed $100, 000 for directg an anti-gay slur at referee Bennie Adams 2011 to an LGBTQ equaly unrstand how much Bryant's self-examatn and ultimate change meant to me, know that there were only two players I sisted my son watch live: Allen Iverson and Kobe.

KOBE BRYANT MAY HAVE ED A GAY SLUR

The fact that both men were attached to ugly, homophobic moments offers a glimpse to how difficult n be for some LGBTQ people to work a field which ritured masculy is nsired currency. Like many gay men, I love sports and refe to be chased out by simple-md men, pecially by those dus who n’t get women to like them but are nvced every gay man wants,, the pot is Kobe changed bee he did more than pay a fe and issue a clumsy, weak apology.

KOBE BRYANT FED $100,000 OVER GAY SLUR LAKERS GAME

He spoke wh me, he spoke wh LGBTQ anizatns and then, when he was fortable, he spoke out agast homophobia — not bee the NBA or sponsors ma him but bee, to quote the late John Lewis, “When you see somethg that is not right, not fair, not jt, you have to speak up. ”I love sports and refe to be chased out by simplemd men, pecially by those dus who n’t get women to like them but are nvced every gay man wants brgs to Thom Brennaman, the Fox Sports announcer who got ught droppg a "fag" bomb on air. So, the real qutn for Major League Baseball, general, and the Ccnati Reds, specifilly, is why did someone who has been llg gam for more than 30 years feel fortable enough to drop an anti-gay slur a workplace environment 2020?

There are openly gay executiv MLB — cludg my iends Erik Braverman, a senr vice print for the Dodgers, as well as oime Dodger Billy Bean, who is a special assistant to MLB Commissner Rob Maned. There may not be any openly gay male athlet playg the big four sports, but we’ve heard several g-out stori after players retired. There was even an openly gay man nng for, Brennaman felt relaxed enough, wh earshot of technicians and other lleagu, to sually drop a reference to an unknown lole as "one of the fag pals of the world.

LAKERS’ KOBE BRYANT IS FED $100,000 BY NBA FOR ANTI-GAY SLUR TO REFEREE

Removg Brennaman won’t expunge homophobia om baseball any more than Jackie Robson’s first at-bat turned Ameri to a geo are all but sgle steps on the journey. Changg that is far more important than ddlg homophob, regardls of how long they’ve been allowed to fter.

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Gay or otherwise, Brebf employe provid me wh a rigoro tn and a rg environment. When he went to the bench, TNT’s meras ught him apparently llg referee Bennie Adams a “f******g [gay slur].

KOBE BRYANT TAK ONE BIG LEAP FOR THE NBA ON GAY SLURS

I’m sure that if you asked Kobe, he would tell you that he wasn’t exprsg any homophobic feelgs when he lled the referee what he lled him. The gay slur Kobe ed is often ed as a general sult -- Kobe lost his temper, and a f of rage he lled Adams the worst thg he uld thk of.

I don’t thk Kobe’s unfortunate choice of words revealed that he has a ep-seed hatred of gay people. K., Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Joe Rogan have all ma s that when they e the word, they’re not sayg that they have a problem wh homosexualy or homosexual behavr; they jt e to note behavr they fd unacceptable.

The fact is that for a lot of people, homosexual behavr and unacceptable behavr are synonymo. Until that chang, I believe that there is no appropriate ntext for that a Gallup poll nducted last May, only 52% of Amerins said that they found homosexualy “morally acceptable.

LAKERS, NBA MEET WH GLAAD AFTER KOBE GAY SLUR

” Homosexuals still do not have the right to marriage most of the untry.

Rearch nducted one week ago shows that gay and lbian teens are twice as likely to experience symptoms of prsn as their heterosexual unterparts, and three tim more likely to report a history of suicidaly. The belief that we are a post-homophobia society is foolish and arrogant. Maybe the day when ’s okay to e the word that Kobe ed and have everybody know that you have no problem wh homosexuals or homosexual behavr at all will e someday.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS KOBE

It’s easy to pot the fger when somebody like Tim Hardaway says somethg blatantly homophobic and p all the issu wh homosexualy and profsnal sports on isolated s like him.

REFEREE BILL KENNEDY, FOLLOWG SLUR BY RAJON RONDO, ANNOUNC HE'S GAY

The tth is that the problems n much eper, and many of them are more rooted ignorance than math tells that would be a miracle if no active MLB, NBA, or NFL player is a homosexual, but no player current athlete has e out, and I would wager that most profsnal athlet don’t thk they have any gay teammat.

It’s environments like that where sual homophobia n seem harmls. Ask yourself this: if Joe Smh, who was stg next to Kobe, or Bennie Adams, the referee, was gay and Kobe knew that, do you thk he still have ed that word? If the answer is no, why should we expect any homosexual who was wh earshot or watchg the game on TV to not have an issue wh Kobe’s choice of words?

DETRANSNER BTERLY REGRETS HAVG TTICL REMOVED AFTER STGGLG WH BEG GAY

When the most rpected player the league by players, ach, and media members alike gets ught unrkg a gay slur and nobody has a problem wh , n give the imprsn that the NBA don’t re about creatg a welg environment for all of s fans. Kobe has an opportuny to clear up his feelgs about homosexuals and whether or not he believ the word he ed is or is not acceptable language.

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KOBE BRYANT FED $100,000 FOR GAY SLUR

"The Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights group, said Bryant's "horribly offensive and distasteful" language "perpetuat a culture of discrimatn" and lled for a fuller is one of the hight paid US sportsmen and one of US basketball's most celebrated stars. Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was fed $100, 000 by the NBA on Wednday and cricized by numero gay-rights groups for directg an anti-gay slur at referee Bennie Adams durg a game Tuday agast San Anton. Bryant said he planned on talkg to the gay-rights groups and also wanted to “own up” to his ments.

” GLAAD applds NBA’s cisn to fe Kobe Bryant $100, 000 for anti-gay slur The Human Rights Campaign, a natnal lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr civil rights anizatn, lled a “disgrace” for Bryant to “e such horribly offensive and distasteful language, pecially when lns of people are watchg. ” The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, a lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr media advocy and anti-famatn anizatn, add an equally cril statement. “The words exprsed do NOT reflect my feelgs towards the gay and lbian muni and were NOT meant to offend anyone.