As we learn more about Manti Teo, we will learn the tth behd the accatns that he is gay.
Contents:
- KATIE COURIC ASKS MANTI TE’O IF HE’S GAY, HIS ANSWER SPEAKS VOLUM
- REVISG MANTI TE’O AND THE GAY QUTN
- THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
- THE NFL IS AAID OF MANTI TE'O BEG GAY, BUT NOT RECG CRIMALS
- IS MANTI TE’O GAY?
KATIE COURIC ASKS MANTI TE’O IF HE’S GAY, HIS ANSWER SPEAKS VOLUM
Manti Te'o is reportedly raisg eyebrows among general managers dog the hirg who "want to know" about his sexualy, even as teams refe to speak out about gay players and crics charge that GMs still actively rec players wh crimal pasts. * gay teo *
The long-awaed Katie Couric-Manti Te’o terview aired this afternoon, and for people who have followed the story of the bizarre hoax that led to Te’o claimg to have a girliend who didn’t exist, not a lot of new ground was broken: Te’o is stickg to his story that he was a victim, not a perpetrator, of the hoax, while acknowledgg that he did lie to his fay about havg met his nonexistent girliend person, and that he lied to the media even after learng that she didn’t one brief exchange wh the terview has people talkg: Couric asked Te’o, “Are you gay? Far om , ” Te’o emphasis Te’o placed on beg “far om” gay was strikg. But when Couric asked Te’o if he’s gay, Te’o took umbrage.
But don’t dare ll me gay.
And that may say a lot about how a gay player would be treated the Natnal Football League. Although there have been enuragg stori recently about more acceptg attus NFL locker rooms, we may still be a long way off om a day when a football player uld answer the qutn, “Are you gay?
REVISG MANTI TE’O AND THE GAY QUTN
” wh a simple, “Y” and not fear beg shunned by teammat, downgrad by ach and heckled by bad news is that Te’o seems to thk that if you’re an aspirg profsnal football player, you’re better off beg labeled naive and stupid than gay. As a closeted sophomore llege, was eply unsettlg to watch the Manti Te’o story unfold.
Was Te’o volved an elaborate ploy to ver up that he’s gay? At that pot, there had never been an out gay player the NFL.
THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
There were few out gay male pro athlet general. The gay qutn was treated as an accatn. “Are you gay?, ” Katie Couric asked Te’o pot blank on her talk show.
Durg one clip played the doc, ProFootballTalk’s Mike Flor tells rad host Dan Patrick that “teams want to know whether Manti Te’o is gay.
The statement impli that beg gay would’ve been another strike agast him. But at the time, verage of the story ma seem as if beg gay was somethg to be ashamed of.
THE NFL IS AAID OF MANTI TE'O BEG GAY, BUT NOT RECG CRIMALS
At least, that’s how I read , as a gay 20-year-old lookg to make sports myself. 4:05: Jon Gn speaks publicly about his anti-gay emails for the first time. 10:25: Tim Hardaway addrs his homophobic past.
Legend would have you believe that once you’ve earned your gay rd, a Harry Potter–like ceremony occurs where, stead of the Sortg Hat, a giant magil butt plug divis all gay men to two ho: tops or is clearly not the se, pecially for those people who nsir themselv versatile (HIYA).
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IS MANTI TE’O GAY?
But I believe that many gay men pick one si, stick to , and that some of those dividuals choose toppg—you’ll have seen their profil markg them as “masc dom tops” on the apps—bee of s ti to tradnal Miller explas, there are outsi forc that, datg back to the ancient Greeks, have prevented gay men om tly diggg to what sexual behavrs we might actually enjoy. “What I mean by that, ” he says, “is that cultural forc wh the gay muny prize toppg over bottomg. “Wh bottomg there is the perceptn that you're givg up your masculy bee receivg a penis is somethg that women do, ” Miller Chris Whe, an expert health promotn and the director and prcipal vtigator of the Safe and Supportive Schools Project at the Gay-Straight Alliance Network San Francis, tak this one step further.
”To be (fucked) or not to be (fucked) shouldn’t always be the qutnAcrdg to a 2011 study by The Journal of Sexual Medice that surveyed 25, 000 gay men Ameri about their last sexual enunters, only 36 percent said they had bottomed and 34 percent said they had, realy, we’re not actually fuckg all that much. Over the past three to five years, the homema gay porn market has crystalized and gone mastream. The followg list was culled by Domic Ford, the creator of JtForFans, and reprent the most followed gay acunts on the platform -- he also did a list of trans performers.