Mark Cuban -- I'd Be HONORED If 1st Gay Player Was On My Team

Contents:

• MARK CUBAN ON ABORTN, GAY MARRIAGE, SMOKG POT, TAKG ECSTASY
• ON MARK CUBAN’S GAY JOKE ABOUT BILL SIMMONS, WHAT THE NBA DO ABOUT AND ESPN SCBBG THE CKS (UPDATES)
• MARK CUBAN -- I'D BE HONORED IF 1ST GAY PLAYER WAS ON MY TEAM
• GAY SPORTS NEWS: MARK CUBAN, CHRIS KLUWE, SOCCER FANS, MEDIA

MARK CUBAN ON ABORTN, GAY MARRIAGE, SMOKG POT, TAKG ECSTASY

He’s been ls well-known as an outspoken ally to the LGBT muny until the massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida on June 11 that killed 49 people. So how did a nice boy om Ptsburgh, son of a r upholsterer, wd up beg an LGBT ally and an Athlete Ally advisory board member whose role volv advisg the group on programmg to make sports a more wele place for gay athlet and fans? Followg NBA player Jason Colls’ urageo and historic g out 2013 and former Missouri fensive end Michael Sam’s g out the next year, Cuban appeared on CNN’s “Piers Man Live” show 2014 and said that g out as a gay athlete is a “non-event.

ON MARK CUBAN’S GAY JOKE ABOUT BILL SIMMONS, WHAT THE NBA DO ABOUT AND ESPN SCBBG THE CKS (UPDATES)

How many stat now allow gay marriage? And [homosexualy] has bee so accepted, ’s a non-event.

Cuban, a one-on-one nversatn wh Bill Simmons, ESPN‘s beloved Sports Guy, suated that Simmons is gay. ” Meanwhile,, a gay sports webse, champned Cuban as an advote for the LGBT muny. He is not an enemy of the gay muny.

In the same breath as profsg his love for fart jok, he apologized for his “sophomoric” remark.

MARK CUBAN -- I'D BE HONORED IF 1ST GAY PLAYER WAS ON MY TEAM

”On gay marriage:MavericksBe the smartt Mavericks fan. Is Mark Cuban Gay? Sexualy - Gay or Nay.

Correct our wiki/b - is he not gay or straight or of different herage? You know, jt our lifetim, the attus toward gay marriage toward marijuana, you know, toward, you know, terracial upl, biracial upl jt change night and day. In 2014, he praised NBA player Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay male player to play a major U.

A 2015 report published by the Williams Instute at the Universy of California, Los Angel, ced a 2013 survey which found that 48 percent of LGBT victims of vlence reported experiencg police UCLA report also ced a send survey which found that 40 percent of gay and bisexual male survivors of domtic vlence believed police terventn would be unhelpful or very unhelpful. In the post, tled "Am I a Homophobe?, " the Dallas Mavericks owner characteriz the ment tailed below as "totally sophomoric" and wr that makg was a mistake.

GAY SPORTS NEWS: MARK CUBAN, CHRIS KLUWE, SOCCER FANS, MEDIA

Not that those thgs would, or do, preclu a man om also likg men and/or havg boyiends, but, y'know, for the rerd, there's been no public ditn that Bill Simmons is gay. Namely, that Bill Simmons is gay and lik to kiss boys on know how I know that?

That havg achieved as much as Cuban has — or even jt havg lived 53 years on the pla — don't also e you to say to yourself, "Makg fun of people by suggtg they're gay isn't a good thg to do; I probably shouldn't do that"? Remember, the NBA is ls than a year removed om a pair of very ugly, high-profile ntroversi ed by the om-the-bench utteranc of homophobic slurs by Kobe Bryant and Joakim Noah.

But they share the same root, and as Carli pots out, the league has also "gone so far as to create a PSA beggg kids not to e homophobic slurs precisely the way Cuban did onstage.

I'd Be HONORED If 1st Gay. It's only a matter of time before an active NBA player out as gay...