NBA Rumors: Lakers among teams lked to Rudy Gay - Silver Screen and Roll

Contents:

• HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
• THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• REPORT: WARRRS EXPECTED TO SHOW TERT RUDY GAY

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

Miller is the only out gay male head ach profsnal sports. Rudy Gay, Goln State Warrrs (Photo by Thearon W. The Utah Jazz waived veteran forward Rudy Gay, settg him up to pick between several potential ntenrs ee agency.

THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY

The Los Angel Lakers, Goln State Warrrs, Chigo Bulls, New Orleans Pelins, and Dallas Mavericks are among the teams lookg to Gay. 8 pick the 2006 NBA Draft is about to enter his 17th profsnal the ee agent market has oled down signifintly after the ial surge — partially due to the Damian Lillard and Jam Harn tra stalemat — Gay is certaly a player worth Rumors: Warrrs, Lakers among teams terted ee agent Rudy GayOf the teams listed, Goln State and Los Angel reprent the bt opportuny for Gay to pete for his first NBA champnship. Wh very few personal aclas on his résumé spe a long and productive reer, one has to image Gay is termed to pete at the hight level.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

Listed at 6-foot-8 and 250 pounds, Gay is limed primarily to one or two posns on fense pendg on the matchup. If Gay isn’t htg 3s, his value is extremely limed at this stage of his reer. There’s somethg to be said for veteran know-how and Gay’s learship the locker room, but he’s no longer prsurg the rim as a driver or creatg his own looks.

The talented three-level srer of old is firmly the past; Gay is a stretch-4 who shot below 26 percent om ep his age-36 season. He’s probably approachg his last go-around the said, Gay did receive a steady dose of mut last season when healthy. Wh limed forward pth beyond Patrick Williams, the Bulls pecially uld have room for Gay to play real mut.

Whether or not the Bulls — or any team — should be playg Gay real mut at this pot is an open qutn, but he has earned the benef of the doubt over the last two s.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

Gay is quietly one of the longt-tenured and most dividually productive players left the NBA. 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. Not only was their birthday a huge tone for women’s profsnal basketball, but the league’s growth has cid wh a growg acceptance of players that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual and trans.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

I remember when the WNBA kicked off and though there was an assumptn that there mt have been gay players the league, yet no player was open about their sexualy. How Many WNBA Players Intify As Gay?

Even though some outlets have approximated of the percentage of LGBTQ players the WNBA the real number will always be accurate as long as homophobia exists all ’s forms. The te percentage of WNBA players that intify as gay or lbian will always be termed by how acceptg society of differenc sexualy and genr, and th, how fortable players are of g out of the closet the public eye. We piled this list bee we know that the qutn of how many gay WNBA players there are and bee there’s not a lot of reputable rmatn to be had; leads to stereotyp beg perpetuated and biased opns are taken as fact.

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

We saw the lack of available rearch as an opportuny to provi rmatn that is actually rearched wh the ntext of how culture affects the number of out gay and lbian WNBA players.

That’s also te the WNBA where All-Stars Dewanna Bonner and Alyssa Thomas are engaged, former teammat Penny Taylor and Trasi are married, current teammat Allie Quigley and Courtney Vanrsloot have also wed, Natisha Heiman and Jasme Thomas are upled up and Breanna Stewart and Marta Xargay have a child together.

To see the percentage of gay and lbian players the WNBA, go here. All that said beg one of the top players don’t exclu you om experiencg homophobia or the feelgs of fear, anxiety and shame.

REPORT: WARRRS EXPECTED TO SHOW TERT RUDY GAY

“Every day walkg down the hallway was like: ‘She’s gay. She’s gay. Beg bullied, havg feelgs of not beg accepted for beg gay or not fully g out aren’t unique to WNBA players whatsoever.

And every WNBA superstar that is out now cludg Augt, Grer, Bird, McCoughtry, Candace Parker, Stewart, Katie Smh, and Jonquel Jon to name a few have all spoke to the glass closet they’re workg agast and homophobia that they’ve experienced that have silenced them. Gay, Black and Female. We’ve foced on g as gay or lbian and haven’t even approached the subject om the cross sectn of the multiple inti that are at play.

By also then intifyg as Gay, Lbian, Bi-Sexual, Queer or Trans Black woman, well that pretty much tak all offers off the table. Sue Bird dumbed down how racism, sexism, and homophobia together to work agast the WNBA an ESPN terview: “To be pletely blunt, but also kd of simple, soccer players generally are cute ltle whe girls. It’s 70-80% Black women, a lot of gay women.