Over the past few years, has bee more and more mon for lbian and gay ach to clu the nam of spo and partners their bs. Dr. Pat Griff, profsor emera of tn at Universy of Massachetts Amherst and longtime advote for equaly sports, scrib as a sea change, notg that today’s athlet and ach are g out to a much more supportive environment than existed 20 years ago.
Contents:
- COLLEGE BASKETBALL ACH OUT AS GAY, BEE ‘I DON’T WANT TO DIE WH THE LIE’
- HOW THIS MEN’S LLEGE BASKETBALL ACH TOLD HIS NEW TEAM HE WAS GAY
- FIVE GAY LLEGE BASKETBALL ACH SPEAK OM THE CLOSET
- MATT LYNCH IS FIRST OUT GAY HEAD ACH MEN’S LLEGE BASKETBALL
- HOMOPHOBIA IS ELEPHANT ROOM WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, GAY FAL FOUR ASSISTANT SAYS
- OPENLY GAY COLLEGE COACH MAK A LOW-PROFILE ROLE MOL
- THREAD: FIVE GAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACH SPEAK "FROM THE CLOSET"
COLLEGE BASKETBALL ACH OUT AS GAY, BEE ‘I DON’T WANT TO DIE WH THE LIE’
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I don’t know if I will be able to get another llege basketball job as an openly gay ach, but I refe to take any job where I am not my thentic self.
HOW THIS MEN’S LLEGE BASKETBALL ACH TOLD HIS NEW TEAM HE WAS GAY
“Havg to ‘e out’ n sometim be a daily occurrence, ” said Lynch, who had been publicly out as a gay basketball ach sce April 2020. I uld jt wa and let them fd out on their own, but beg gay and sports, bed wh my own personaly, sometim n take a while to get the pot across.
FIVE GAY LLEGE BASKETBALL ACH SPEAK OM THE CLOSET
And wh that Lynch, 30, began his new job as assistant ach at Divisn II Chowan and head ach of the velopment team, makg him the only publicly out gay men’s basketball ach the NCAA (Layne Ingram, who is transgenr, starts his third season as ach of the Lansg Communy College women’s team Michigan). When Lynch told him he was gay at a Carola Ale Hoe 2019, Burke nonchalantly told him that nothg would shake their iendship. Turner ed a ntroversy the 2019 NCAA tournament by g “queen” towards an opponent, a ment that was sexist and homophobic and sparked a backlash.
MATT LYNCH IS FIRST OUT GAY HEAD ACH MEN’S LLEGE BASKETBALL
Late Saturday night at the Men's Fal Four, hours after the natnal semifals, I was at Metro, a gay bar Indianapolis, wh gay high school basketball ach Anthony Nimo and UMass guard Derrick Gordon. While sports enti and rporatns were quick to lash out at the state hostg the Fal Four, they have been perennially silent about the tac and overt discrimatn beg levied agast gay people basketball on a daily basis. Yet they say that lie has been mandated by ach, admistrators and school polici that at bt turn a bld eye to homophobia and at worst promote .
2 school he was prented wh a choice: If he wanted the job, he had to sign a ‘liftyle ntract' sayg he was agast homosexualy. The school is eply mted to s versn of Christiany - Even as gay rights are expandg rapidly across the untry, this school is beg more outwardly anti-gay.
All told, Michael said he knows about a dozen gay llege basketball ach all livg by the same mantra for the same reason: job secury.
HOMOPHOBIA IS ELEPHANT ROOM WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, GAY FAL FOUR ASSISTANT SAYS
He was gettg ready for a night on the town when some of the ach ma terrible ments about gay people and the very gay bars they had no ia Pl was head to. One particular assistant mak anti-gay ments and gay slurs on a regular basis, even on the bench the middle of gam.
What had driven Jim to the rock bottom was a team atmosphere built around years of anti-gay ments by ach and team members. Far beyond overt heterosexism, his team - as wh so many others - were engaged homophobia so rampant that drove him to that brk of suici. Some of the men who had ma the most homophobic ments and were the most boistero about their homophobia were the most apologetic for havg led to an uneasy environment for Jim.
OPENLY GAY COLLEGE COACH MAK A LOW-PROFILE ROLE MOL
It the form of talkg about women or sexual nquts, tryg to set each other up wh women they know si or outsi of basketball - nversatns which the closeted gay men have no abily to engage.
His achg staff and about half of the players on the team this past year knew he's gay, though Jim keeps most of the tails of his personal life private. 1 program - he has explored iendships the gay muny all the while keepg his achg aterny far away om his personal life. While he said his head ach is "empathetic" about his suatn, sce their nversatn he has heard the ach e gay slurs and mean gay people while he has been wh recs.
Jt as his own head ach has engaged homophobic banter wh recs, other ach will jump at the chance to brand his team "the gay team" to drive away talent.
THREAD: FIVE GAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACH SPEAK "FROM THE CLOSET"
It's gog to take some head ach and admistrators proactively hirg people who are gay before people start to realize 's OK. And she said that om her personal experienc, she believ somewhere over 50% of female llege basketball ach are gay.