The Cubs Target Their Gay Fans - Outsports

Contents:

• DANIEL MURPHY MAK THGS WORSE WH HIS NEW MSAGE TO GAY CUBS FANS
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
• DANIEL MURPHY’S MSAGE TO GAY CUBS FANS: “OH AR. I HOPE YOU WOULD ROOT FOR THE CUBS.”
• CUBS HAVE HAD MOST MLB GAY DAYS, THE INDIANS HAVE HAD ONE
• THE CUBS TARGET THEIR GAY FANS
• DANIEL MURPHY’S GAY ‘LIFTYLE’ MENTS FOLLOW HIM TO CUBS

DANIEL MURPHY MAK THGS WORSE WH HIS NEW MSAGE TO GAY CUBS FANS

Bee Wrigley Field ss jt a uple of blocks om Chigo’s Boystown neighborhood and this was the early 2000s, was evable that the crosstown smack talk volved to homophobia. Outsi of the Whe Sox’s home park durg this era, there was an pecially popular entry the genre that read, “Wrigley Field: World’s Largt Gay Bar. Wrigley is the world’s largt gay bar?

Eventually, I even saw the World’s Largt Gay Bar shirts outsi of Miller Park Milwkee. Great, now the homophobia was anchisg. Their fans were also gay and beg gay was somethg lser.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS

For the most part, while there are still plenty of obnox shirts beg sold outsi of Wrigley, the outright homophobic on are pretty much gone.

I wear purple on Spir Day bee wasn’t that long ago that hundreds of people wore open homophobia whout a send thought.

Off the field, Murphy did nothg to quell the ncerns of LGBTQ Cubs fans that an avowed homophobe was now a part of their favore team. When he was asked after the game if he had any ment for gay fans who were ncerned wh the Cubs’ acquisn of him, he was tre at bt. In other words: The gay people are jt so damn overly sensive when Christians like me say they bad thgs about them.

DANIEL MURPHY’S MSAGE TO GAY CUBS FANS: “OH AR. I HOPE YOU WOULD ROOT FOR THE CUBS.”

He went on wh a I-uldn’t-re-ls-what-those-gays-thk answer about how gay fans should ntue to cheer for the Cubs. Durg the prser he also waxed poetic about openly gay MLB executive Billy Bean, wh whom Murphy has bee iendly.

He has his gay iend and he’s good to go. Fans of Brish actor Tom Holland have e to his fense after some social media ers were seemgly upset that the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri The Crowd Room featured gay the scene, Holland’s character go to a club wh heavy black eyeler and all black. ”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me.

CUBS HAVE HAD MOST MLB GAY DAYS, THE INDIANS HAVE HAD ONE

”“The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is... And Murphy is on the rerd as “disagreeg” wh the “gay liftyle”, ments Murphy hasn’t ever really walked back to any gree.

Do you have a msage for gay fans that may have said “Okay, I’m not gog to root for the Cubs” now that you’re here?

THE CUBS TARGET THEIR GAY FANS

But the unter to that is that rather than lookg like the Cubs are tryg to be hont, mak seem like the Cubs, as an anizatn, had given no thought to the backlash they’d face by acquirg Murphy, and turn that mak the Cubs look like they didn’t nsir his thoughts on the “gay liftyle” to be an issue to beg wh. Not only is Wrigley Field adjacent to Boystown, the gay center of Chigo, but the Cubs have a float the annual gay pri para.

The Cubs have also been holdg a gay day event each year at Wrigley Field sce 2001, now lled Out at Wrigley, makg the longt-nng LGBT-themed day among the 30 Major League Baseball teams. Bill Gubd, the gay Chigoan who started Out at Wrigley and a lifelong Cubs fans, posted this vio on Facebook Sunday honor of his dad, who died 2012 and never saw his team w a World Seri. In 2014, the team schled a night honor of the Gay Gam that were takg place the cy at the time.

DANIEL MURPHY’S GAY ‘LIFTYLE’ MENTS FOLLOW HIM TO CUBS

The lack of a yearly gay day do not mean the Indians anizatn is anti-LGBT. Sce the Cubs have a gay -owner and have been proactive supportg the LGBT muny Chigo, I'll root for the Cubs. A weekly gay newspaper.

The Free Prs tmpets the advertisg al as the first between an Amerin male pro sports team and an exclively gay publitn. Some teams the Women's Natnal Basketball Associatn have marketed directly to lbians, but Outsports uld fd no other exampl of a men's team targetg the gay market. ``It was an easy no-braer, '' said Annie Kleiser, manager of special events and entertament for the Cubs, addg that Wrigley Field is ``smack dab the middle of the gay neighborhood.