The Los Angel Lakers are one of many teams expected to have tert recently released veteran forward Rudy Gay.
Contents:
- NBA STAR DWIGHT HOWARD ADDRS GAY RUMORS: 'I DON'T WANNA WEAR NO MASK'
- DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS HE FEEL ‘FREE’ AFTER RUMORS THAT HE WAS GAY
- HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
- TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
- A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
- STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
- NBA FREE AGENCY RUMORS: LAKERS ONE OF MANY TEAMS EXPECTED TO HAVE INTERT IN RUDY GAY
- RUMOR: LAKERS, WARRRS AMONG POTENTIAL RUDY GAY SUORS EE AGENCY
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- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
- PEOPLE AROUND NBA REPORTEDLY EXPECT CARMELO ANTHONY, RUDY GAY, DEMAR DEROZAN TO NSIR PAY CUTS TO JO LAKERS EE AGENCY
- NBA TRA RUMORS: RUDY GAY ULD ADD SOME VERSATILY TO THE LA CLIPPERS' FENSE
- MATT GAY SIGNS RTRICTED EE AGENT TENR, RETURNG TO RAMS FOR 2022
- RUDY GAY RUMORS
NBA STAR DWIGHT HOWARD ADDRS GAY RUMORS: 'I DON'T WANNA WEAR NO MASK'
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"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 SAYS HE FEEL ‘FREE’ AFTER RUMORS THAT HE WAS GAY
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"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. When John Amaechi me out publicly 2007, he was ahead of his time, sharg that he’s gay and a former profsnal basketball player.
HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
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Sce Colls showed the world you uld be a gay man profsnal basketball, there has been a trickle of gay athlet to follow, most recently former NBA player and current Atralian pro basketball player Isaac Humphri. When Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop me out this week, was the first time an active player unr ntract to an NHL team had ever publicly acknowledged they were gay.
Overnight, Prokop's announcement doubled the number of out gay athlet currently playg the untry's four major men's sports — football, basketball, baseball and hockey.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
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Though many retired former players have e out, is more unual for male profsnal athlet to say they are gay while still playg. Gay male athlet face cultural barriers Part of the reason for the lack of out gay players men's profsnal sports uld be that there are jt fewer of them the game.
TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
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Rory Magrath, a rearcher at Solent Universy England, has suggted that 's possible gay men are unrreprented profsnal sports. "Gay men are a fe rource, so they n't exist great numbers every quarter, " Magrath told "Gay men are overreprented some areas, and as a nsequence are gog to be unrreprented sports. That uld be due to the mascule culture at the center of the major sports, experts say, creatg an environment that is ls welg to gay athlet.
Magrath helped thor a study that found that male athlet who me out as gay while still playg sports were largely met wh acceptance by their teammat. Robbie Rogers ma history 2013 when he took the field for the Los Angel Galaxy after as the first openly gay player profsnal U. NBA player Jason Colls, who me out 2013 while he was still playg the league, later told NPR " went great" when he scribed the perd after announcg he was gay.
A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
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After Michael Sam beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted to the NFL 2014, then-Miami Dolphs safety Don Jon tweeted "horrible, " rultg penalti and a spensn. David Kopay, a former NFL nng back who me out 1975, was unable to land a profsnal achg job after he announced publicly that he was gay. There are key differenc the cultur of men's and women's athletics While few active players the major men's sports leagu have e out, many female profsnal athlet have said publicly that they're gay, om U.
STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
Recently released by the Thunr, veteran forward Rudy Gay is beg targeted by multiple teams, cludg the Lakers and Warrrs. * nba player gay rumors *
The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surroundg the players, not to nvce the rear that the athlet are gay. In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg.
This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate. His ex-wife has acced him of beg gay and that Dunn’s lover om llege actually lived wh them for the first few years of their marriage. This mor was that a member of the New York Mets was gay and people were speculatg that was Piazza.
Qutns about Aikman's sexual orientatn have been around for s and the mor was started by Skip Bayls, when, his book, he stated that Troy Aikman might be gay.
LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
Like wh other major men’s sports, the NBA still has no openly gay players. If you’re lookg for a clue as to why, look at a Twter ntroversy that popped up November volvg Washgton Wizards center Dwight Howard. * nba player gay rumors *
The ments are among 78 tweets om 36 current and active NBA players on teams that are homophobic language, nature or even tent (four other players were on a roster when the list was piled last month, but they are no longer on an NBA team).
NBA FREE AGENCY RUMORS: LAKERS ONE OF MANY TEAMS EXPECTED TO HAVE INTERT IN RUDY GAY
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The players clu CJ McCollum, the print of the Natnal Basketball Players Assn., who tweeted “no homo, ” as well as superstar Kev Durant, who tweeted “shut up fag boy. “I don’t re how long ago was, shows the person’s character, my opn, ” said Derrick Gordon, who me out publicly as gay while playg basketball at UMass and who now plays profsnally Germany. When “Chris, ” a young NBA fan who is gay, saw the tweets, they sadned and angered him.
“It was shockg but not surprisg, ” Chris said of the number of homophobic tweets he found. “The culture of homophobia sports ns very ep, pecially a hyper-mascule league like the NBA.
RUMOR: LAKERS, WARRRS AMONG POTENTIAL RUDY GAY SUORS EE AGENCY
Players like Carmelo Anthony, Rudy Gay and/or DeMar DeRozan beg willg to take ls money to chase a tle wh the Lakers uld really help the team add pth ee agency. * nba player gay rumors *
Beg a big NBA fan, Chris cid to check the acunts of some of his favore players and found var homophobic tweets.
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From his rearch: “Fag” showed up 29 tweets, “gay” 40 (and not plimentary), and the phrase “no homo” 17. The Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz each have four players on the list of NBA athlet who created anti-gay tweets, while the Chigo Bulls currently have three players who tweeted homophobic msag.
Not cintally, Jason Colls beme the first active NBA player to e out as gay 2013, raisg signifint awarens of LGBTQ issu — and the prence of gay players — the NBA.
For example, Durant 2013 voiced his support of Colls, but he also ma graphilly homophobic ments 2021.
NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
So ’s possible that players wh anti-gay views simply don’t exprs them publicly today. “Culture as a whole has changed, ” said Anthony Nimo, a succsful high school basketball ach New York who me out publicly as gay several years ago. Colls — who played as an openly gay player the last uple regular-season months and then playoffs of the 2013-14 season — has been speakg to NBA rooki at the league’s annual symposium sce 2015.
PEOPLE AROUND NBA REPORTEDLY EXPECT CARMELO ANTHONY, RUDY GAY, DEMAR DEROZAN TO NSIR PAY CUTS TO JO LAKERS EE AGENCY
Readg [the tweets] remd me a lot of my journal that I kept, and I stopped after two weeks, bee was jt … you hear , but you don’t really realize how much sual homophobia there was.
NBA TRA RUMORS: RUDY GAY ULD ADD SOME VERSATILY TO THE LA CLIPPERS' FENSE
Speakg om my experience, there is a disnnect sometim between someone who sual homophobia, and then once you show them who you are, they will step up and have your back.
MATT GAY SIGNS RTRICTED EE AGENT TENR, RETURNG TO RAMS FOR 2022
Oshae Brissett of the Indiana Pacers, now 23, was 12 and 13 when he posted ne homophobic tweets a two-year span. One mon slur ed var tweets was “no homo, ” which me to vogue over 10 years ago as a way for a man to pliment another man whout beg taken “the wrong way.
RUDY GAY RUMORS
“‘No homo’ as a phrase promot a negative nnotatn regards to gay men, as if we are ls-than, ” Chris said.
As a ach and tor, Nimo said he still hears “no homo” around teenagers — even beg out as a gay man — though the culture basketball has improved. “Kids today sometim say ‘no homo’ or somethg like that, but there has unqutnably been a shift, ” he said.