Strictly star Johann Rabe: 'I was threatened wh a bat for beg gay'

Contents:

• THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY
• TCHAIKOVSKY NOT GAY? HERE'S SOME MORE MIL SHOCKS FOR YOU
• STRICTLY FANS HAIL JOHN AND JOHANN ‘BEANS FOR GAY FOLK’ AFTER BEG FIRST SAME-SEX FALISTS
• STRICTLY COME DANCG STAR JOHANN RABE: ‘I WAS THREATENED WH A BAT FOR BEG GAY’
• Y, JOHANN RABE GAY: IS JOHANN & JOHN IN A RELATNSHIP?

THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY

Strictly has featured a female same-sex uple before, boxer Nila Adams and Katya Jon, who peted durg the 18th season 2020, but Whae and Rabe (who both intify as gay) will be the show's first gay male pair. "Bee I'm dog the first all-male partnership, I genuely did thk that I was gog to receive a fair b of hate bee you do as a gay man, you get a lot of hate.

Not only was their birthday a huge tone for women’s profsnal basketball, but the league’s growth has cid wh a growg acceptance of players that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual and trans.

TCHAIKOVSKY NOT GAY? HERE'S SOME MORE MIL SHOCKS FOR YOU

I remember when the WNBA kicked off and though there was an assumptn that there mt have been gay players the league, yet no player was open about their sexualy. How Many WNBA Players Intify As Gay?

Even though some outlets have approximated of the percentage of LGBTQ players the WNBA the real number will always be accurate as long as homophobia exists all ’s forms. The te percentage of WNBA players that intify as gay or lbian will always be termed by how acceptg society of differenc sexualy and genr, and th, how fortable players are of g out of the closet the public eye.

We piled this list bee we know that the qutn of how many gay WNBA players there are and bee there’s not a lot of reputable rmatn to be had; leads to stereotyp beg perpetuated and biased opns are taken as fact. We saw the lack of available rearch as an opportuny to provi rmatn that is actually rearched wh the ntext of how culture affects the number of out gay and lbian WNBA players.

STRICTLY FANS HAIL JOHN AND JOHANN ‘BEANS FOR GAY FOLK’ AFTER BEG FIRST SAME-SEX FALISTS

That’s also te the WNBA where All-Stars Dewanna Bonner and Alyssa Thomas are engaged, former teammat Penny Taylor and Trasi are married, current teammat Allie Quigley and Courtney Vanrsloot have also wed, Natisha Heiman and Jasme Thomas are upled up and Breanna Stewart and Marta Xargay have a child together. To see the percentage of gay and lbian players the WNBA, go here. All that said beg one of the top players don’t exclu you om experiencg homophobia or the feelgs of fear, anxiety and shame.

“Every day walkg down the hallway was like: ‘She’s gay. She’s gay. Beg bullied, havg feelgs of not beg accepted for beg gay or not fully g out aren’t unique to WNBA players whatsoever.

And every WNBA superstar that is out now cludg Augt, Grer, Bird, McCoughtry, Candace Parker, Stewart, Katie Smh, and Jonquel Jon to name a few have all spoke to the glass closet they’re workg agast and homophobia that they’ve experienced that have silenced them. Gay, Black and Female. We’ve foced on g as gay or lbian and haven’t even approached the subject om the cross sectn of the multiple inti that are at play.

STRICTLY COME DANCG STAR JOHANN RABE: ‘I WAS THREATENED WH A BAT FOR BEG GAY’

By also then intifyg as Gay, Lbian, Bi-Sexual, Queer or Trans Black woman, well that pretty much tak all offers off the table.

Sue Bird dumbed down how racism, sexism, and homophobia together to work agast the WNBA an ESPN terview: “To be pletely blunt, but also kd of simple, soccer players generally are cute ltle whe girls. It’s 70-80% Black women, a lot of gay women. Whether straight or gay, the great thg about the WNAB is that they’re unified their support of one another – not only terms of women’s sports, but genr equy, racial jtice, and issu impactg the LGBTQIA+ muny as all three h very close to home.

Y, JOHANN RABE GAY: IS JOHANN & JOHN IN A RELATNSHIP?

Though there is a lot of ternalized and systemic homophobia the WNBA to unpack and remove, ’s no surprise that the league go big durg Pri month.

”Johann and Zephram met the 1970s at a gay-nscns-raisg group Salt Lake Cy, where both were attendg llege. They were each dabblg var spirual practic: Zephram was circlg around the Wicns, attracted by their earth-centered ruals, and Johann was samplg you’re gay, Zephram poted out, is not always the se that tradnal religns will wele you. “Succsful urban gays, buyg property, havg cultural weekends San Francis, ” Johann said.