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Contents:
- OUR 30TH MOMENT OF PRI: JASON COLLS SR FOR THE FIRST TIME AS AN OUT GAY ATHLETE
- HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
- NBA, NETS, ACH AND PLAYERS HAVE ALL BOTCHED THE RPONSE TO KEV DURANT’S ANTI-GAY MENTS
- THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
- A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
OUR 30TH MOMENT OF PRI: JASON COLLS SR FOR THE FIRST TIME AS AN OUT GAY ATHLETE
Outsports’ 30 days of Pri moments nclus wh the first and so far only male major pro sports athlete to play after g out as gay. * nba gay moments *
Today, for the last of our 30 Moments of Pri, we revis Febary 27, 2014: the first NBA game which Jason Colls sred pots as an openly gay pro basketball player.
HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
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It was his first game sce g out as gay. He beme the first active male athlete one of the big pro sports leagu to e out publicly as gay.
And I’m gay, ” Colls wrote “I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playg a major Amerin team sport.
NBA, NETS, ACH AND PLAYERS HAVE ALL BOTCHED THE RPONSE TO KEV DURANT’S ANTI-GAY MENTS
Kev Durant ed the most graphic anti-gay language I’ve ever heard om a pro athlete. The NBA rponse? Crickets. * nba gay moments *
He later wrote The Players’ Tribune about the irony that some people believe out gay players provi a “distractn” to straight athlet. “I had never felt more fortable playg basketball than I was as an openly gay man.
THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
There have only been two openly gay NBA players. Jason Colls beme the first active player to e out 2013. John Amaechi me out 2007 after he retired. * nba gay moments *
The energy volved hidg the strs, shame, and fear of beg gay is a full-time job. 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.
A GAY NBA FAN FOUND 78 HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS BY 40 PLAYERS ON 23 TEAMS
Here are the gay men who have blazed a trail on basketball urts around the world. The NBA, s teams and players have pursued many iativ to support the LGBTQ muny and gay athlet the last few years. Collectively they have all also dropped the ball rpondg to graphic homophobic ments by Brooklyn Nets superstar Kev Durant.