Korll Stewart’s story is why we avoid spreadg gay athlete mors - Outsports

Contents:

• FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY
• KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS
• KORLL STEWART WS $3M OM MAN CLAIMG GAY FLG

FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY

Stewart, who is not gay, said he felt attacked by the cy of Ptsburgh for the mor, which he said the Steelers found was started by an dividual lol police officer. It was ls than a month after we lnched the se that Stewart publicly addrsed mors that he was gay, and that he had talked about wh his Ptsburgh Steelers teammat. How do we handle “mors” that so-and-so athlete is gay?

KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS

We knew that two gay guys wrg about sports was already gog to brg wh some raised eyebrows and doubt. While Jim had been out as a sports edor, gay guys wrg sports were few and far between. We started Outsports — those very early days — simply as a place for gay men to e talk sports.

Korll Stewart’s Players Tribune piece last week, tailg the personal and profsnal issu created by havg “gay” mors out there, explas why. To be sure, beg gay is not a bad thg. Callg someone gay is not famatory, whether they are or not.

And certaly not the gay muny.

KORLL STEWART WS $3M OM MAN CLAIMG GAY FLG

Like I said, we have addrsed a handful of gay-athlete mors the past, almost each time g the mors to expla why they are problematic. As speculatn mounted 2012, my piece — Is Tim Tebow gay?

“If Tebow is gay, ” I wrote, “he is buried beneath so much crap he many never get out om unr . The one athlete we’ve handled slightly differently — Troy Aikman — we’ve done so part bee he’s actually ma problematic ments about beg gay, sayg ’s “a liftyle people choose.