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"Giant news: Famous basketball player comes out of closet! Oh, wait ..."

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bob Paris, 1983 NPC American National and IFBB World Bodybuilding Champion, Mr. Universe, came out as openly gay in 1989. At the time he was still active in bodybuilding competition, and while some nasty remarks were made by a couple of other bodybuilders (who ended up getting dropped by magazines and sponsors, etc.), Joe Weider and the bodybuilding establishment supported Paris, to the point of featuring him on a cover of Weider's Muscle & Fitness magazine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Paris

IIRC there have been a few other prominent bodybuilders who have come out as well.

4/19/13, 3:56 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

They should prevent lesbians from participating in sports as a kind of reverse affirmative action to combat stereotype threat.

4/19/13, 5:12 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The news that the top WNBA draft pick is lesbian may not be big news, but it's HUGE news compared to the newsworthiness of the WNBA.

Greiner's coming out has gotten about as much coverage as I'd expect to see of the WNBA announcing that they're going out of business.

--Discordiax

4/19/13, 6:34 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The use of language here is cynical. Everyone knows that 'gay' essentially only refers to homosexual men, not women. So of course if the author opens the article in the way he does people will assume he's talking about a man. It's a cheap trick.

If 'gay' can equally well describe homosexual women then why not drop the L and just call it the BGT whatever?

4/19/13, 6:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Large, ugly female athlete is gay? Who knew THAT could happen?

4/19/13, 7:41 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

A couple of years ago a cousin on a D1 women's basketball team said that every black girl on the team was lesbian or bi and the white girls were mostly straight. That's more than 2/3 of the team. Of course these women are used to it.

4/19/13, 8:50 AM

Anonymous countenance said...

Stop the presses!

The top pick in the draft for a sports league whose players are heavily lesbian and whose fans are heavily lesbian is lesbian!

I can barely tell she's actually a woman. Mark Cuban wanted to draft her for the NBA, maybe this news will make him actually do it.

Some time ago, I thought there was something lesbiany about the WNBA when there wasn't frequent news about its players having to take those nine month sabbaticals.

4/19/13, 8:54 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon at 6:50:

You're wrong about the use of the word "gay.". Most people will use it to refer to either males or female homosexuals, as in "Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres are both gay." Gay is not straight, period.

4/19/13, 9:02 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

In related news:

"Lesbian ex-basketball star is jailed for 'claiming that she was attacked by masked men who carved anti-gay slurs into her skin'"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311430/Charlie-Rogers-Lesbian-ex-basketball-star-jailed-claiming-attacked-masked-men-carved-anti-gay-slurs-skin.html

"A former University of Nebraska basketball star convicted of lying to police about being attacked in her home by masked men who carved anti-gay slurs into her skin was sentenced Thursday to a week in jail and two years' probation.

Charlie Rogers, 34, who maintains that the attack last July did happen, cried and hugged family and friends as she left the courtroom. Neither she nor her family would comment after the hearing.

The reported attack provoked outrage and spread fear among Lincoln's gay community, and hundreds of people turned out for a rally that weekend outside the state Capitol. At the time, Lincoln was debating whether to adopt a proposed 'fairness ordinance' that would have banned discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation, and tensions were high among those on both sides of the issue."

4/19/13, 9:13 AM

Anonymous Rob said...

Lesbian basketball star stages hate crime.

4/19/13, 11:19 AM

Anonymous jody said...

you mean he's straight?

never would have guessed.

4/19/13, 1:12 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

>Here's my 1994 National Review article "Why Lesbians Aren't Gay," which points out the radical difference in sexual orientation of male and female athletes.<
Not really, they both generally like to shag women!

Nick (South Africa)

4/20/13, 12:16 AM

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