Posts under ‘Homophobia’

The boss of a successful British Formula One racing team is being accused of homophobia and racism in a complaint filed with a British employment tribunal. Peter Boland (right), 27, claims he was fired by McLaren Mercedes head Ron Dennis of firing him because he’s gay. McLaren Mercedes is known for their driver Lewis Hamilton, [...]

There are professional soccer players across Italy praying that Victory doesn’t name names. You see, he’s the the latest rent boy to come forward and claim that he beds down pro soccer players in Italy for cash. A lot of cash, actually. About $2,000 a pop, so to speak. 
“A lot of them are bisexual, they [...]

It’s been 10 years since Julian Rubenstein wrote an article about the failure of professional sports leagues to adequately address homosexuality. The article was titled, so appropriately, “Suffer in Silence.” It seems this was a topic of discussion for a “Sports and Gender” class at Bowling Green University recently, as a couple students there have [...]

Boston sports radio station WEEI showed that segments of Massachusetts remain homophobic after it aired a segment both offensive and lame about the Gay Games possibly coming to Boston. Wrote the Boston Globe in an article about the fifth anniversary of gay marriage being legal in the state:
Even in Massachusetts, gays and lesbians have yet [...]

Kudos to Deadspin for catching this obviously well-balanced, well-intentioned Seahawks fan at a Seattle-based Pro-Prop 8 rally (actually, an Anti-Anti-Prop 8 rally, but who’s counting). The cop behind him is giggling for a good reason, as you can see in this picture.
Of course, I couldn’t begin to guess at the sexuality of anyone wearing [...]

Warren Sapp apparently wants to be the only former Buc doing reality TV. Sapp, who’s currently on Dancing with the Stars, was asked on Inside the NFL about Keyshawn Johnson’s new interior design show. Said Sapp:
Me, watch Keyshawn on an interior decorating show? Keyshawn, I knew you were a bitch. And thanks for making it [...]

Over the last two weeks, we’ve followed the story of two youth baseball coaches who allegedly use name-calling and homophobic slurs to motivate their young baseball players. The two coaches were suspended for a year and then un-suspended. And now, they are suspended for a year again.
In another surprising turn of events, the Park Board [...]

Oh the blonde jokes that are popping into my head. Caitlin Davis was a New England Patriots cheerleader. Until she and some friends (allegedly) decided to draw penises and swastikas all over the body of someone Davis says she didn’t know, and then (not allegedly) take pictures of her holding a marker over the body [...]

Two coaches who allegedly used homophobic slurs to taunt pre-teens they coached in baseball, and who allegedly encouraged other kids to do the same, may soon see their overturned suspension reinstated. We originally reported about these two coaches and their overturned suspension last week. Now the city council is not pleased (probably after outcry from [...]

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones (photo right) took a shot at Joey Porter of the Miami Dolphins, after Porter criticized Jones’ felony cocaine charge. This is the same Porter who was fined two years ago for calling another player a “fag.”
“I don’t even know why he’s even thinking about me,” Jones said. “I mean, [...]

Jeff Kent of the Los Angeles Dodgers has given $15,000 to help pass Proposition 8 in California, which would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. I had always heard that Kent was a major league jackass and this just confirms it.
In a disclosure filed with the California secretary of state, Kent listed his [...]

Two youth baseball coaches in Indiana, Scott Kaletha and Mike Schwanke, who allegedly engaged in the homophobic taunting of one of his 12-year-old players were suspended for a year after an investigation earlier this summer. But that suspension has been overturned by local Park and Recreation Board on a 3-2 vote after nine hours of hearings [...]

Hard-hitting, long-haired Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu had some choice adjectives to describe the NFL of late after one of his teammates, possible Hall of Fame wide receiver Hines Ward, was slapped with some fines for hits.
It loses so much of its essence, and it really becomes like a pansy game,” the Steelers’ Pro Bowl [...]

English soccer player Sol Campbell is under nasty verbal attack by fans of his former team who are hurling racial and homophobic slurs at him.
The former [Tottenham] Spurs captain faced a barrage of abuse from Tottenham fans during a match with Portsmouth on Sunday.
A large bunch of terrace thugs sang: “Sol, Sol, wherever you may [...]

Fu Manchu mustache enthusiast Todd Jones wrote in his Sporting News column last week that he was hanging up his spikes. He pitched 16 seasons for… well, pretty much everyone. He ended his career with 319 saves, 868 strikeouts and an ERA just a hair under 4. His greatest, and probably most revealing moment came [...]