Ohio State head football coach Urban Meyer has apologized to the Ohio State LGBT alumni group, Scarlet and Gay, for use of shirts whose color was perceived as offensive to gays. The shirts, given to players who loafed during conditioning drills, were called “lavender” by strength coach Mickey Marotti and that sparked a controversy. Ohio [...]
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In new film “Goon,” hockey player gets beaten up after using gay slur
“Goon” is a new movie about a hockey brawler, played by Seann William Scott. There is a decided gay angle, with Scott having a younger brother who is gay. Scott evens gets goaded by his friend into wearing 69 as his uniform number because “it’s hilarious.” Then there’s the angle that starts the plot: “Goon” [...]
Ohio State football coach: ‘Loafing’ shirts have nothing to do with sexual orientation
Earlier this week we ran an item about new Ohio State football strength and conditioning coach Mickey Marotti’s use of a colored shirt as a badge of shame for players who loafed. Marotti, in a press conference with reporters, twice used the word “lavender” to describe them, as did at least one player. This caused [...]
Yet still more ‘fag’ soccer tweets. The Football Association takes more action.
Two more players have been brought up on charges by the Football Association for sending out homophobic tweets on Twitter. Are these guys ever going to learn? Federico Macheda (right) is a hot little number who is with Queens Park Rangers, on loan from Manchester United. We couldn’t find his original anti-gay tweet (he probably [...]
Scarlet letter: Ohio State football players who loaf forced to wear lavender shirts
Ohio State football players who loaf through winter conditioning drills will be forced to wear lavender shirts “in the weight room, at the training table or in the classroom” as a badge of shame. It’s part of a motivation strategy by Buckeye football’s new director of performance, Mickey Marotti, hired by new coach Urban Meyer. [...]
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is latest footballer accused of homophobia: ‘maricones’
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho doesn’t like somebody. On a snowy Monday this week, a camera caught him saying (video after the jump): Y esos maricones…no dicen con que balon se juega? Which translates to: “And those faggots…they don’t say with what ball to play?” He then asks for an orange ball and walks away…with [...]
Ex-NFLer Craig James, now Senate candidate, says being gay is a choice
Craig James, the former SMU and New England Patriots running back and ESPN analyst, came out as a full-fledged homophobe during a debate Wednesday for the Republican nomination for Senate in Texas. A question during the debate centered around one his opponents, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, having marched in a gay pride parade. James: I [...]
Football Association launches anti-homophobia campaign as Amaechi, critics blast them
The Football Association in England has launched a new campaign to end homophobia in soccer. The program, called ‘Opening Doors and Joining In,’ is aimed at making football more inclusive of both players and fans. It clearly shows the FA wants to get serious about the issue (though some question whether it will have much [...]
Shane Williams, Colorado Mesa Univ. football player, arrested for alleged attack on lesbian
Colorado Mesa University football player Shane Williams has been arrested for the alleged assault of a lesbian outside a bar early Friday morning. Chelsea Gallagher was sent to the hospital with a fractured skull after she and her girlfriend, Ashley Davis, were allegedly harassed with anti-gay language by Williams and at least one friend. Gallagher [...]
Another soccer player, Manny Smith, tweets homophobia at gay fan
We’ve seen plenty of athletes toss around gay epithets at presumably straight people, but this is one of the rare occasions when an athlete has the balls to target an openly gay fan. Walsall FC defender Manny Smith got into an exchange with Kevin Paddock last Friday and had some choice words for the Walsall [...]
English soccer teams blasted for failure to support anti-homophobia campaign
Homophobia is alive and well in English soccer, where only 16 of 160 clubs in seven divisions reacted positively to an initiative to support gays in the sport, the Independent reports. This comes at the start of a weeklong international imitative, Football vs. Homophobia. The campaign wrote to every professional English club asking them to [...]
Exeter City FC fights homophobia this Saturday as part of ‘Football v. Homophobia’
Can you imagine several San Diego Chargers standing outside their stadium before a game handing out pamphlets against homophobia in sports? Or how about Vincent Jackson and Shaun Phillips showing up to coach San Diego’s gay flag football league? Yet Exeter City FC is doing exactly that: Players have already had a coaching session with [...]
Ravel Morrison charged with rules violation by the Football Association after ‘faggot’ tweet
The Football Association has charged Ravel Morrison with a violation of FA Rule E3 “for use of abusive and/or insulting words including a reference to a person’s sexual orientation.” Morrison recently Tweeted the word “faggot” at a fan. Rule E3 of the FA states: A Participant shall at all times act in the best interests [...]
Vancouver Whitecap Lee Nguyen tweets ‘fagggggggg,’ teammate Jay DeMerit is an ally
You’ve got to wonder why some people in the public eye bother to get on Twitter. So many of them can’t control themselves. Our second report today on a homophobic tweet comes from Gays4soccer and features Vancouver Whitecap midfielder Lee Nguyen (right) calling teammate Brad Nighton a (and I quote) “fagggggggg.” This was the same [...]
Minnesota Wild prospect Justin Fontaine suspended for Tweeting ‘faggot’
Two Houston Aeros players in the Minnesota Wild farm system don’t like the Foo Fighters very much; They also don’t blink when calling people “faggots.” So when the band showed up on the Grammys, Justin Fontaine had no trouble expressing to the world how he felt about them. Teammate Jon DiSalvatore quickly retweeted Fontaine’s thoughts: [...]
Ex-Seattle Seahawk Ken Hutcherson says gay marriage will lead to men marrying horses
Now that Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a bill allowing for same-sex marriage in the state, the battle there turns to a referendum that opponents are trying to get on the November ballot. One of the leaders in the fight against same-sex marriage there is Ken Hutcherson, a pastor and former player for the Seattle [...]
State Liquor Authority taking up fight over gay sports bar Boxers in New York City
At first, residents of Manhattan neighborhood Hell’s Kitchen fought the opening of gay sports bar Boxers because the entrance was withing 200 feet (the legal minimum) of a school. Now that the bar owners have moved the entrance to just over 200 feet away from the school, neighbors are screaming because they just “don’t want [...]
Vanderbilt removes UK2GAY Kentucky shirts from online store
Update: These shirts may have been originally used in 2010. Either way, they’re not available now. Unidentified Vanderbilt fans, presumably students, had created a T-shirt (right) for the Commodores’ upcoming game against No. 1 Kentucky on Saturday. Creators of the shirt, with the phrase “UK2GAY,” included this disclaimer on the Web site for the shirt: [...]
Graeme Le Saux says soccer needs to create safe space for gay players
Former English soccer player Graeme Le Saux, who says his career was damaged by false rumors that he is gay, tells the BBC that gay players need support that is not there now. “The important thing isn’t whether or not there are gay players in professional football,” Le Saux told BBC Radio Jersey. “The point [...]
Jalen Rose has a problem with shirtless men chest-bumping one another
Jalen Rose is in hot water over calling Patriots tight end “white boy wasted” this morning on the Mike & Mike Show, but it’s his homophobic comment that has out wrestler Akil Patterson hot under the collar. According to Patterson, Rose (who is an expert on losing championships) said in his tirade against Gronkowski’s post-Super [...]