Sean Strickland has become synonymous in the UFC with homophobia. It’s a reputation earned from multiple social-media posts and public comments he’s made, particularly this year after being offended by a couple questions from a reporter.
Yet one of his most recent tweets might give us insight into the root of his homophobic comments.
To recap, Strickland earlier this year launched into an anti-gay screed when he was asked about comments he had previously made, ahead of a UFC bout.
Interestingly, that lead to an Outsports post wondering, “Is Sean Strickland gay?“
His latest tweet stereotyping gay men claimed his long hair as a teenager made him a “gay looking kid.”
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Sadly, he seems to brought that “hate and anger” into his adult life, aiming part of it at the LGBTQ community.
His observation about looking “gay” because he had long hair is a bunch of absolute nonsense from a man whose homophobia seems to know no bounds.
I know a lot of gay men. I know gay men in their late teens, in their 20s, and well into their 70s.
The vast majority of gay men I know — and I’m talking 98% — don’t have long hair. In fact, they have really short hair. Just like Strickland and his “straight” buddies who get in their “underwear” with one another to “fight” in the UFC.
Yet somehow Strickland thinks that, by shaving off his straight-looking long locks from his younger years, he looks less gay.
LOL.
The reality is, with his short hair and muscles he’d fit right into the crowd at the Circuit Festival in Barcelona.
Many gay men will understand the concept of a young man spewing homophobia after being bullied about possibly being gay. It’s a common refrain, that some of the most homophobic men are reflecting something going on in their personal lives.
Is Sean Strickland gay? Who knows. But the fact that he may have been teased about it as a youth due to his long hair certainly gives some possible insight into his anti-gay public comments.
For some reason, Strickland seems obsessed with gay men, looking gay, acting gay, and so many gay things that are gay for gay men and other people in the gay community.
Much of the current hubbub around Strickland’s homophobia erupted after MMA writer Alex Lee asked Strickland a question or two ahead of one of his UFC fights earlier in 2024.
Strickland seemed to lose his mind over the very simple questions.
“If you had a son and he was like, yeah man, you don’t want a grandkid?” Strickland asked Lee at the time, during the UFC press conference.
When Lee said he wouldn’t “have a problem with it,” Strickland launched a personal hit on the journalist:
“You’re part of the problem,” Strickland told Lee, before telling him “Go f**k yourself.”
Of course, UFC and the company’s boss, Dana White, chickened out, refusing to take a real position about Strickland’s homophobia as they continue to cater to straight men who love watching chiseled men wearing little clothes with one another.
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