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Contents:

• I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
• IKER CASILLAS 'I'M GAY' TWEET: WHY WAS NO LGHG MATTER
• A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
• BREAKING: MALIK OBAMA TWEETS, THEN LET CLAIM THAT BROTHER BARACK IS ‘FELY GAY’
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT

Lu is a gay movie. This movie is 1, 000% a metaphor for the growg up gay experience.

I'm jt stg here after watchg #Lu unable to stop thkg about how was a metaphor for beg gay.

Jt saw Lu, & I don’t re what anyone else says, ’s the first gay animated film by Disney/Pixar. Watchg lu and giulia sayg all three of them "drs weird" when they llectively look like a gay iend group 2021................ Also me, watchg Lu: gay?

IKER CASILLAS 'I'M GAY' TWEET: WHY WAS NO LGHG MATTER

Cryg joyful gay tears for all the nfed LGBTQ+ kids who will watch Pixar's LUCA and have their ner world validated.

I feel like Lu will make a lastg imprsn on the LGBTQ muny bee even though the characters weren’t stated gay clearly draws on many experienc that gays face adolcence and even after speakg as a 19-year-old out guy I uld relate to #Lu #PixarLu. Alberto and lu not beg able to let go of each others hands is the most heart breakg thg omfg i love gays. Casillas retired 2020 followg a reer that saw him w three Champns Leagu and five La Liga tl at Real MadridFor a uple of hours on Sunday lunchtime, Iker Casillas was the most famo gay footballer the world.

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

"I hope you rpect me: I'm gay, " said a tweet om the acunt of the former Real Madrid and Spa goalkeeper.

Two hours after the 'rpect me: I'm gay' post went up, Casillas leted - and replaced wh a new tweet, claimg he'd been hacked but that everythg was now " orr". Football referee Ryan Atk - who happens to be gay - acced the two men of "fuellg homophobia the game", sayg the pair need to "hang their head shame" Networkg group Sports Media LGBT+external-lk cricised both the "flippancy of the tweets… and the weak backtrack".

You'd have to be aware of Lloyd Wilson and Josh Cavallo, and the bravery took both men to open up about their thentic selv a sport where gay and bisexual men have historilly been margalised.

BREAKING: MALIK OBAMA TWEETS, THEN LET CLAIM THAT BROTHER BARACK IS ‘FELY GAY’

Put simply, neher man seemed to 'get' what 's like to be gay the betiful game. And stirred up the worst elements of social media, who have spent the past 24 hours hurlg homophobic abe at those - myself clud - who pot out that there are real-world nsequenc to the words of Casillas and Puyol.

“I hate gay dus”.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

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.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

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.