Google Highlights the Age of the Gay Athlete
LGBT athletes are breaking barriers in so many sports it's hard to keep track. Google and YouTube are sharing in the pride of gay and lesbian athletes with a new video that has been living in that extremely rare ad spot on the Google home page.
LGBT athletes are breaking barriers in so many sports it’s hard to keep track. Google and YouTube are sharing in the pride of gay and lesbian athletes with a new video that has been living in that extremely rare ad spot on the Google home page.
Check it out below, along with coming out interviews with some of the subjects of the #proudtoplay video.
With the World Cup in Rio right around the corner, Robbie Rogers is one of the obvious stars in the above clip, but the standout for this blogger is Kobe Bryant, who once was fined an obscene amount of money by the NBA for using the word “faggot” during a nationally broadcast game. Good on him for lending his fame and voice to the cause.
— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer
Your support matters…Independent journalism is under threat and overshadowed by heavily funded mainstream media.
You can help level the playing field. Become a member.
Your tax-deductible contribution keeps us digging beneath the headlines to give you thought-provoking, investigative reporting and analysis that unearths what's really happening- without compromise.
Give today to support our courageous, independent journalists.
Editorial Cartoons
Churning out cheap rainbow swag during Pride Month is about marketing, not supporting LGBTQ+ people.
Contrary to what the organizers of Boston's "Straight Pride Parade" would have you believe, straight pride is already well represented.
"We have to be as visible as possible," said one San Francisco marcher who joined a "resistance contingent" that led the city's parade.
Though celebration was in the air at Saturday's Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C., the crowd also brought other sentiments and goals to this year's event.
The FBI has some explaining to do. A gun store owner in Jensen Beach, Fla., has said that he alerted the intelligence agency's West Palm Beach outpost about an incident involving a suspicious customer who turned out to be Pulse Orlando shooter Omar Mateen.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.