6 gay pro basketball players who have been out while petg - Outsports

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• HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
• BILL KENNEDY, áRBRO GAY LA NBA: "LOS CRíMEN OD BEN PARAR"
• A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
• BILL KENNEDY, áRBRO GAY LA NBA: "LOS CRíMEN OD BEN PARAR"
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
• ÁRBRO NBA REVELA GAY LUEGO SULTO RONDO
• THE 2021 WNBA ALL-STAR GAME IS THE GAYT PROFSNAL BASKETBALL GAME EVER
• ARBRO LA NBA REVELA SER GAY TRAS ATAQUE JUGADOR
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• ESTOY ULLOSO SER áRBRO LA NBA Y SER GAY”, BILL KENNEDY

HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL

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.

Bill Kennedy, el árbro la NBA que hizo públi su homosexualidad en 2015, partió anoche un sentido mensaje apoyo a las víctimas l tiroteo en una diste gay Colorado Sprgs, un suco que jó c muertos y 17 heridos bala el pasado f semana en Estados Unidos.

BILL KENNEDY, áRBRO GAY LA NBA: "LOS CRíMEN OD BEN PARAR"

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.

When “Chris, ” a young NBA fan who is gay, saw the tweets, they sadned and angered him.

“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.

A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS

Beg a big NBA fan, Chris cid to check the acunts of some of his favore players and found var homophobic tweets. 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.

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.

For example, Durant 2013 voiced his support of Colls, but he also ma graphilly homophobic ments 2021.

BILL KENNEDY, áRBRO GAY LA NBA: "LOS CRíMEN OD BEN PARAR"

So ’s possible that players wh anti-gay views simply don’t exprs them publicly today.

“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. Colls — who played as an openly gay player the last uple regular-season months and then playoffs of the 2013-14 season — has been speakg to NBA rooki at the league’s annual symposium sce 2015. Readg [the tweets] remd me a lot of my journal that I kept, and I stopped after two weeks, bee was jt … you hear , but you don’t really realize how much sual homophobia there was.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

Speakg om my experience, there is a disnnect sometim between someone who sual homophobia, and then once you show them who you are, they will step up and have your back. Oshae Brissett of the Indiana Pacers, now 23, was 12 and 13 when he posted ne homophobic tweets a two-year span. One mon slur ed var tweets was “no homo, ” which me to vogue over 10 years ago as a way for a man to pliment another man whout beg taken “the wrong way.

THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY

“‘No homo’ as a phrase promot a negative nnotatn regards to gay men, as if we are ls-than, ” Chris said. As a ach and tor, Nimo said he still hears “no homo” around teenagers — even beg out as a gay man — though the culture basketball has improved. “Kids today sometim say ‘no homo’ or somethg like that, but there has unqutnably been a shift, ” he said.

“If someone talks about puttg a bullet someone’s head, that’s beyond ‘I hate gay people, ’” Nimo said. The onle prence of the tweets 2022, even though wrten years ago, pots to a cultural problem wh athlet and anti-gay language.

ÁRBRO NBA REVELA GAY LUEGO SULTO RONDO

Kda homo “/2014Kev Durant“shut up fag boy”/2009“you sound gay son”/2009New York Knicks. Pl Reed“Bch be gay today, bi tommorow, and pregnant sunday ha”/2014 “Why is so many niggas drs up like girls and putt on wigs tryna be funny.

THE 2021 WNBA ALL-STAR GAME IS THE GAYT PROFSNAL BASKETBALL GAME EVER

Mallm Hill“homo# LOL”/2011Zach LaVe “@perrnTF @juice_wilson49 both y’all r gay”/2014Javonte Green“You gay for subbg”/2016Cleveland Cavaliers.

Oshae Brissett“This guy is sooooo gay on my b”/2012“you want all the guys on the street to love you ew your gay”/2012“you sound like a girl.. Youyr so gay lool”/2012“OMFG why gods good name would anyone cut them self for a fag”/2013“Callg your iend a fag on bbm but then you realize that you sent to your mom”/2012“you are a fag”/2013“follow me back fag”/2012“get off my twter you fag/2013@TheRealtEver_ fag”/2012Hoton Rockets.

ARBRO LA NBA REVELA SER GAY TRAS ATAQUE JUGADOR

Jae’Sean Tate“u shut up fag boy”/2011“ur I nt believe wat u showed me today/2011“#gay”/2011Dallas Mavericks. Spencer Dwiddie“Lol Chris Bosh is ugly af and gay as hell”/2012New Orleans Pelins. Montrezl Harrell“no u fag you are talkg to the worlds ltlt man Jordan smh”/2012“you gay don’t @ me no more for real”/2011“This nigga the barber shop is gay as hell smh”/2012“SpongeBob Tho >> ^__^ ♥♥he gay”/2012“Trezl & India Fsg About Spongebob -__- Lol he’s gay”/2012.

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

Dewayne Dedmon “We got some characters this class — the gay asians is kill me tho”/2011Atlanta Hawks. Clt Capela“Big up to my man no homo @Davidou97one who gonna sugery this morng!

Dmond Bane“I love you no homo”/2015Dillon Brooks“ur gay”/2012“naw fag”/2012“good fag”/2012Denver Nuggets. Facundo Campazzo“ gay”/2016Jam Ennis III“fag lol”/2012“@ChristianPerez1: Tanic is on:) (no homo)” I love that move”/2011JaMychal Green“dnt play w me koolaid will get put on his head if he try some gay”/2010“lol i got you i nt wave thats gay but ill salute you”/2011“Fna load my iPod up w new mic while I tch up on some #Dexter season 3... Cuz he gy w da homo azzss Shyt lmao/2010Nah’Shon “Bon” Hyland“you chicks really be blsed wh beg pretty & you really turn gay??

ESTOY ULLOSO SER áRBRO LA NBA Y SER GAY”, BILL KENNEDY

Jared Butler“That gay du msed up”/2014Jordan Clarkson“naw Rick #yotillsglebee u still got homo tennci lol”/2010Rudy Gay “Can someone tell @RasualButler45 to holla at me!