  |
 |
| |
|
|
|
 Retired NBA Player Comes OutPosted on Feb 7, 2007John Amaechi has become the first current or former NBA player to come out of the closet, and only the sixth such professional athlete from the four major American sports to do so. The former center for Orlando, Utah and Cleveland has written a memoir in which he describes life in the NBA as he started to open up about his sexuality, including mixed reactions from his team’s owner, coach and players. In an interview with ESPN, Amaechi says there are other gay players in the league, but “they should not be pressured or pushed” to out themselves.
Previous item: Defense Secretary: Surge Not Our 'Last Chance' Next item: Watada Court-Martial Declared a Mistrial Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment |
|
AIDS and the Myth of the Oversexed Negro
Email
Print
Share
Del.icio.us
Digg
Facebook
Ma.gnolia
Newsvine
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Yahoo
Jump to Comments
Copyright © 2008 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved.
By LawVibe.com, February 8, 2007 at 1:29 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)
You can check out the John Amaechi “Man in the Middle” book at Amazon here:
http://tinyurl.com/yuoe4v
P.S. The book is coming out February 20th so it’s available for preorder.
Report thisBy RAE, February 8, 2007 at 8:09 am #
(Unregistered commenter)
Reminds me of a book published by Arbor House, NY in 1977 titled “The David Kopay Story” by David Kopay and Perry Deane Young.
Kopay was a ten-year veteran running back for the San Francisco Forty-Niners and, according to the cover flap, he was the first professional athlete to publicly declare his homosexuality.
Here we are… 30 years later… still huffing and puffing over the same irrelevant details of human existence. “Irrelevant” because unless you are planning to become intimate with this person, his or her sexual orientation is of NO CONSEQUENCE WHATSOEVER. Who the hell ever gave heterosexual people the right to dump on those who are different from them?
The stronger and braver, BY FAR, are the non-heterosexuals and other minorities who take a stand… “we’re mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore.”
Report thisBy Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, February 8, 2007 at 6:37 am #
(Unregistered commenter)
Try to imagine a life lived like that.
Report thisBy vet240, February 7, 2007 at 7:36 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)
“John Amaechi has become the first current or former NBA player to come out of the closet, and only the sixth such professional athlete from the four major American sports to do so.”
The statment copied from the above article says it all.
I don’t know how many players we’re talking about here, but it seem reasonable to assume that possibly as many as 4000 players would cover the four sports mentioned. The total number of alternative life-style folks might be as high as 5-10 percent of that amount.
I think it’s sad that after all the science on this issue covering humans and other life forms we still degrade and abuse our fellow human kind.
It is time for us to accept that the biological structure of humans is not simple. Our sexuality is not an option exactly because it is biologically extablished, not socialy. There are more variation than just boys and girls. There are many mixes between those two extremes. This is biological truth. If nature made it, as far as I’m concerned it’s all natural. So why do we treat our fellow human beings so badly they have to hide in the shadows?
There is a distinct possibility each of us has a family member who falls in between the Boy-girl definition. I can say I would never say or do anything that might harm someone I love in my family. I was born hetrosexual. I did not have any options.
Report this