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GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER ENDUR HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS AT END OF HIS REER

Filmmaker Nick Borenste provis a h and likable take on the ‘gays sports’ edy archetype. * peter gay basketball *

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.

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

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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.

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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!

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.

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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.

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.

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