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Contents:
- HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
- A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
- CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
- TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
- BILL KENNEDY OUT AS SEND ACTIVE OPENLY GAY NBA OFFICIAL
- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
- IS NBA YOUNGBOY GAY? CHIGO RAPPER MAK SHOCKG ALLEGATN ABOUT IYANNA MAYWEATHER'S BOYIEND
HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
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When John Amaechi me out publicly 2007, he was ahead of his time, sharg that he’s gay and a former profsnal basketball player.
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.
Here are the gay men who have blazed a trail on basketball urts around the world.
A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
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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). 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.
CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
Candice Wiggs celebrat a w 2011. The WNBA has historilly been the most forward-thkg sports league Ameri when to gay rights. The league has actively urted LGBTQ fans for several years (, if anythg), has had several star players e out of the closet wh ltle ntroversy, and generally been ahead of the NBA, s relatively socially progrsive parent league, on every related issue. * nba is gay *
When “Chris, ” a young NBA fan who is gay, saw the tweets, they sadned and angered him.
TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
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“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. Beg a big NBA fan, Chris cid to check the acunts of some of his favore players and found var homophobic tweets.
LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
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.
BILL KENNEDY OUT AS SEND ACTIVE OPENLY GAY NBA OFFICIAL
Of the 78 homophobic tweets, 70 were sent om 2009 to 2013. 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.
NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
For example, Durant 2013 voiced his support of Colls, but he also ma graphilly homophobic ments 2021. The NBA also might be takg a stricter le on homophobic ments by players.
So ’s possible that players wh anti-gay views simply don’t exprs them publicly today.
IS NBA YOUNGBOY GAY? CHIGO RAPPER MAK SHOCKG ALLEGATN ABOUT IYANNA MAYWEATHER'S BOYIEND
“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.