Korll Stewart Says a Ptsburgh Cop Started The Rumor He Was Gay – BlackSportsOnle

Contents:

• KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS
• FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY
• KORLL STEWART SAYS A PTSBURGH COP STARTED THE RUMOR HE WAS GAY
• KORLL TELLS WHY HE DIVORCED PORSHA, IF HE’S GAY AND TRANSVTE RUMORS
• EX-STEELERS QB KORLL STEWART SAYS LLG HIM GAY IS 'FAMATORY'
• KORLL STEWART ADDRS GAY RUMORS, TALKS EX-WIFE PORSHA WILLIAMS & MORE WH STEVE HARVEY
• KORLL STEWART ADDRS RUMORS: PORSHA TRIED TO SAY I’M GAY!!
• KORLL STEWART TALKS GAY RUMORS AND DIVORCE FROM PORSHA STEWART (VIDEO)

KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS

It was ls than a month after we lnched the se that Stewart publicly addrsed mors that he was gay, and that he had talked about wh his Ptsburgh Steelers teammat. How do we handle “mors” that so-and-so athlete is gay?

We knew that two gay guys wrg about sports was already gog to brg wh some raised eyebrows and doubt. While Jim had been out as a sports edor, gay guys wrg sports were few and far between. We started Outsports — those very early days — simply as a place for gay men to e talk sports.

FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY

Korll Stewart’s Players Tribune piece last week, tailg the personal and profsnal issu created by havg “gay” mors out there, explas why. To be sure, beg gay is not a bad thg. Callg someone gay is not famatory, whether they are or not.

KORLL STEWART SAYS A PTSBURGH COP STARTED THE RUMOR HE WAS GAY

And certaly not the gay muny. Like I said, we have addrsed a handful of gay-athlete mors the past, almost each time g the mors to expla why they are problematic.

KORLL TELLS WHY HE DIVORCED PORSHA, IF HE’S GAY AND TRANSVTE RUMORS

As speculatn mounted 2012, my piece — Is Tim Tebow gay? “If Tebow is gay, ” I wrote, “he is buried beneath so much crap he many never get out om unr .

The one athlete we’ve handled slightly differently — Troy Aikman — we’ve done so part bee he’s actually ma problematic ments about beg gay, sayg ’s “a liftyle people choose. Stewart, who is not gay, said he felt attacked by the cy of Ptsburgh for the mor, which he said the Steelers found was started by an dividual lol police officer. I heard he got ught a park, you know, havg a lewd actn performed on him by a gay person.

EX-STEELERS QB KORLL STEWART SAYS LLG HIM GAY IS 'FAMATORY'

”In a tailed say for The Players Tribune earlier this month, Stewart exprsed regret for the way he nied the homosexualy mors. He also says he is most proud of stayg wh the Ptsburgh Steelers and persistg spe the talk and what he claims was subsequent racist and homophobic tntg om fans and other More: Larry Wilmore talks ‘Amend: The Fight for Ameri, ’ importance of Black history“Dpe everythg that happened, I didn’t let anybody steal my joy, ” he penned “You Know What I Heard About Korll Stewart??? He was Black and gay, and that wasn't a good look the that time, there were no out athlet, and really no out role mols for someone like me who was gay and athly aaid that his masculy was threatened bee of his sexualy.

Hearg that Stewart might be gay, and the fact that he was a profsnal football player, and wh the Steelers, well that was almost too good to be te for me. See, the ference I was tryg to make to all of them, and to myself, was that if Korll Stewart was gay, then the way I was wasn't bad.

KORLL STEWART ADDRS GAY RUMORS, TALKS EX-WIFE PORSHA WILLIAMS & MORE WH STEVE HARVEY

And bee I was gay I mt know this tale to be tth, sce durg that time my straight iends assumed all gay people knew each other. Today, mors about some athlet beg gay are all over the place, and they hardly matter. You tolerated a Black quarterback at that time only if he was wng, and Stewart pots that out his lumn; yet, if you labeled him as gay addn to beg Black, well now you had a reason to be vol about your disda for him, and wantg him on the bench, or worse, off the team.

Neverthels, I was still stigmatized by the fact that I was gay and shudred at the mere mentn of the word "gay. " If my self-loathg self was embarrassed to be gay, I n only image how a straight Stewart all feels so antiquated now. As if only a gay man uld know another "gay" man.

KORLL STEWART ADDRS RUMORS: PORSHA TRIED TO SAY I’M GAY!!

That show was famo for an episo where Jerry was falsely outed, and the tch-phrase that always followed the word gay, "not that there's anythg wrong wh that. You uld be gay, like me, and not gay, like Stewart, and realize that there was somethg wrong wh that. And as gay men, and perhaps gay men of a certa age who should unrstand a richly bigoted past, we should be more circumspect about how we label someone.

KORLL STEWART TALKS GAY RUMORS AND DIVORCE FROM PORSHA STEWART (VIDEO)

There is nothg wrong wh beg a gay athlete. But there is somethg wrong wh falsely labelg someone as gay orr to mean their athleticism, their masculy, or their ethnicy.

No one knew exactly when the mor started, but the barbershop talk was that Korll Stewart was gay. And look, man … I’m jt tellg you, they’re sayg that you’re gay. Here is how Andrew Caldwell “I’m Delivert” guy acced him of beg gay.

If he’s gay:. I don’t do no “homophobic”. The Real Hoewiv of Atlanta star's ex-hband, Korll Stewart, has been trailed by gay mors for nearly 20 years.