Filmmaker Nick Borenste provis a h and likable take on the ‘gays sports’ edy archetype.
Contents:
- GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER ENDUR HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS AT END OF HIS REER
- HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
- EQUY AMEWORK EMERG AS RPONSE TO ANTI-GAY ACTS
- PETER GAY
GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER ENDUR HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS AT END OF HIS REER
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It wasn’t that long ago that if you heard there was a new edy film about a gay character’s abily to play sports, there was a near 100% certaty he’d be wrten and played as a paful stereotype we’ve all seen way too many tim. Which is why Nick Borenste’s new short, “Pete Can’t Play Basketball, ” which buted on Tuday on Vimeo, is both charmgly funny and rehg to watch — particularly as picts a gay character’s attempts to play sports. But he’s not the “Oh, he’s gay...
And basketball ntu to play a role at var pots his life — he don’t tomatilly dismiss , jt bee he’s gay. Peter High School basketball player Alex Bosacker me out as gay earlier this wter, he was met wh hugs, love and acceptance om his teammat and ach — the kd that numero other LGBTQ athlet have received. In three separate gam, New Ulm players and fans attacked Bosacker wh a filla of homophobic words and actns that ranged om meang to disturbg.
When Bosacker took his posn at the begng of a game Febary, the New Ulm player he was matched up agast tnted, “I’ve got the gay kid guardg me!
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That player ntued hurlg homophobic trash talk at Bosacker throughout the game and then thgs took a physil turn. ” Th far at New Ulm, homophobic tnts and attacks have led to fewer nsequenc than wearg a hat to class.
A gay athlete havg fun was apparently too much for some stunts at New Ulm. 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.
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Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.
I'm a footballer and I'm gay. "He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay.
In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay!
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Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out. "I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay, " he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media.
The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract. I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know.
"He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay. Hiltz had prevly e out as gay while llege and has been a visible and affirmg prence for gay athlet the past.