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Contents:

• DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS HE FEEL ‘FREE’ AFTER RUMORS THAT HE WAS GAY
• THE INTER REACTS TO NBA STAR DWIGHT HOWARD GAY & TRANSGENR RUMORS
• DWIGHT HOWARD MEM: GAY? MAS ELIJE
• NBA STAR DWIGHT HOWARD ADDRS GAY RUMORS: 'I DON'T WANNA WEAR NO MASK'
• DWIGHT HOWARD ON MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY: 'I'M NOT GAY'
• DWIGHT HOWARD’S INCREDIBLE RPONSE TO GAY RUMORS
• DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS 'I'M NOT GAY'
• 'I'M NOT GAY': DWIGHT HOWARD NI ATTEMPTG TO NCEAL HOMOSEXUAL AFFAIR
• DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS HE FEELS ‘FREE’ AFTER RUMORS THAT HE WAS GAY [VIDEO]
• DWIGHT HOWARD ON MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY: 'I'M NOT GAY'

DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS HE FEEL ‘FREE’ AFTER RUMORS THAT HE WAS GAY

How did the Dwight Howard gay jok start? Memphis Grizzli center Dwight Howard addrsed his sexualy and a lawsu agast him durg a two-part terview on FOX Sports, who sat down wh FOX Sports’ Kriste Leahy for an episo of “Fair Game, ” said he isn’t gay and he touched on a lawsu that was filed agast him March by Mas Elije — who has said the eight-time All-Star was a romantic relatnship wh him and harassed him to signg a non-disclosure agreement after their alleged relatnship was HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGEHoward told Leahy the suatn set him “ee” and also upset him bee he didn’t know who the person was.

THE INTER REACTS TO NBA STAR DWIGHT HOWARD GAY & TRANSGENR RUMORS

“I’m not gay, ” he said. Bee I saw how a lot of people would feel, whether they’re gay or they’re straight.

Howard add, “I’m not gay.

DWIGHT HOWARD MEM: GAY? MAS ELIJE

Now I want you to know I'm not gay or anythg. It's important to note that the athlete has never intified as gay or bisexual and has 5 children wh multiple women.

NBA STAR DWIGHT HOWARD ADDRS GAY RUMORS: 'I DON'T WANNA WEAR NO MASK'

New reports claim the former All-Star has a nnectn to a gay man. A gay man named Mas Elije put NBA star Dwight Howard on blast for allegedly beg a relatnship and allegedly attendg transgenr sex parti.

Not bee he may be gay or bisexual, but he is trash for threateng the life of another person. His reer will not be gone bee he is gay or bisexual, but bee of the threats.

DWIGHT HOWARD ON MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY: 'I'M NOT GAY'

Dwight Howard on allegatns of his sexualy: "I'm not gay... Mas Elije is the gay man who claims that he had a relatnship wh NBA player Dwight Howard.

Mas claims that Howard is gay and that he end their relatnship after fdg out that the NBA star was sleepg wh a transgenr woman.

Dwight Howard Mem Gay Mas Elije. "I'm not gay, " Howard, the subject of a sexual harassment lawsu by a man who claimed they had a romantic relatnship, said on Fair Game wh Kriste Leahy. In March, Mas Elije, an openly gay man, filed a su agast Howard, allegg the two dated but that Elije broke off bee Howard was seeg other men and trans women.

DWIGHT HOWARD’S INCREDIBLE RPONSE TO GAY RUMORS

"I was aaid to speak but today my life was threatened after I was sexually harassed, threatened and manipulated, by someone I rpected, my ex boyiend NBA player Dwight Howard, " Eljie posted, "and his mp also ""tfished"" by his disrpectful ass works for Dwight and Calv begun to get irate, disrpectful and homophobic as I ntued to ny his “hh money” and said I wasn’t signg the NDA! "I thk that liberated me, bee I saw how a lot of people would feel, whether they're gay or they're straight, or whether they have issu, people are aaid to be who they are, " he ntued.

Dwight Howard says he was "hurt" by mors that he is gay, but alg wh the fallout has "liberated" him.

DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS 'I'M NOT GAY'

While he played only ne gam last season due to juri, he had to al wh reports, first brought to light last year, that he is gay. “I’m not gay. “And I thk that liberated me bee I saw how a lot of people would feel, whether they’re gay or they’re straight, whether they have issu.

This past September, was seven years sce I wrote, this magaze, “The Last Closet, ” a feature about the total sany that, September 2011, there were no openly gay players the four major North Amerin men’s profsnal sports leagu. Sports seemed like the last bastn of this sort of homophobia left Amerin life, but did seem like that taboo was … looseng, at least, wh sports culture.

“It’s almost like homophobia is no longer nsired ol sports. A year after that, the Rams drafted openly gay fensive end Michael Sam the seventh round of the NFL draft, and he kissed his boyiend celebratn live on ESPN’s airwav; his jersey quickly beme the send-bt-sellg the NFL. There were more openly gay speakers at Tmp’s Republin Natnal Conventn than there are openly gay players men’s sports today.

'I'M NOT GAY': DWIGHT HOWARD NI ATTEMPTG TO NCEAL HOMOSEXUAL AFFAIR

Obvly, there are gay players the sports, surely dozens of them.

But wh this particular story, there was an unniable unrcurrent of homophobia and transphobia throughout. And culturally speakg, like wh other major men’s sports, the NBA still has no openly gay players. It would be like Nike standg up for pro-gay but nspicuoly havg no gay employe self — an absurdy.

After all, wasn’t long ago that LeBron Jam — who now is wily nsired a strong LGBT advote — was sayg that if you were gay and not tellg your teammat about , you were beg “untstworthy.

DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS HE FEELS ‘FREE’ AFTER RUMORS THAT HE WAS GAY [VIDEO]

” He, like many players, has changed his tune sce then — Jam, forever a bsman, certaly saw the public relatns value evolvg as well — but ’s still rather mon to hear anti-gay sentiment om players; Amar’e Stoumire had to apologize for remarks he ma jt last year. And, aga: There are no openly gay players the NBA.

But to learn that the league’s most hard-re fans appear to be as ristant to an openly gay player as some of his hypothetil teammat would be … well, we may have even further to travel than any of realized. This past year, a self-proclaimed gay man claimed that he and Howard had been volved some sort of tawdry relatnship. When nonted by an accatn that he had been a gay relatnship, Howard rpond olly and serenely.

DWIGHT HOWARD ON MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY: 'I'M NOT GAY'

“I’m not gay, ” Howard said at the time. “Bee I saw how a lot of people would feel, whether they’re gay or they’re straight. 'I'm Not Gay'.