As part of Pri Month, BBC Sport looks at why there is a lack of openly gay male MMA fighters and what needs to change.
Contents:
- UFC FIGHTER JEFF MOLA PUBLICLY SUPPORTS PRI MONTH, IS MISTAKEN FOR BEG GAY, AND IS OL ABOUT
- PRI MONTH: WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY MALE MMA FIGHTERS?
UFC FIGHTER JEFF MOLA PUBLICLY SUPPORTS PRI MONTH, IS MISTAKEN FOR BEG GAY, AND IS OL ABOUT
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If you spend enough time on MMA Twter then you know how disgtg fighters’ homophobia n get (lookg at you, Sean Strickland and Jake Shields). Of urse, all you have to do is go through the repli on Mola’s tweet to be remd jt how vile MMA Twter n be – pecially toward gay, lbian and transgenr people.
PRI MONTH: WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY MALE MMA FIGHTERS?
For all the homophobic dus upset by me reppg pri month on my fight k y’all some u cups ?. This left ltle room for clivy, and allowed homophobia to fter.
” Though Whe never apologized to Hunt, he apologized to the gay muny, statg that he “never meant to hurt anyone the gay or lbian muny at all, ” but still went on to say that he “absolutely, posively meant to attack the reporter, Loretta Hunt om Sherdog. In 2010, former UFC light heavyweight champn Quton “Rampage” Jackson, while filmg the A-Team Vanuver, told the Los Angel Tim that actg “is kd of gay. ” The paper also reported that Jackson had a nontatn wh one of the film’s crew members, durg which Jackson reportedly lled him “every nceivable gay slur.