Unfortunately before writing for the Toronto Star I think he spent way too much time surrounded by the Xtra! Pink Triangle Press crowd that publish the gay newspaper here in Toronto where Brent was employed for years. It was like pulling teeth to get them to write a story about gay sports. When I was on the board of Team Toronto trying to organize athletes for Gay Games we couldn’t get mention of our events in Xtra or get anybody to cover the events – even when there would be over 200 people out with Canadian Olympic athletes in attendance as was the case just before Montreal and Chicago in 2006.

We’d have well over 1000 gay athletes taking part in our gay sports leagues every single week and we rarely had mention of anything related to that in the bi-weekly xtra!, but some art exhibit or play that would have 25 people show up would get previewed in one edition and reviewed the next.

In Toronto at least it was almost as if the gay media did not want to admit that the gay jock existed as it didn’t fit their stereotype of being gay. No wonder why gay athletes haven’t come out when even a lot of the gay media seems intent on denying their existence.

I’m hoping a pro athlete will come out at some point while he is playing.

Druggybear, I am six foot four, a football fan, played basketball, and hairy. And a big ole aggressive rock your world bottom. Don’t assume.

And yeah, I like music and art too. But my swishes are deadly.