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Getting Over It : How Does a Straight Guy Get Beyond Homophobia? A Gay Football Player Gives Him Some Answers
I am an American, New York born, male by construction and heterosexual by design. At 43, I have some history behind me. My behavior is relatively consistent. My patterns have been set.
When Vietnam was raging, I returned my draft card and stood vigil at the Pentagon. I’ve marched for civil rights and women’s rights, protested the Gulf War and the first Rodney King verdicts. I refuse to cross a picket line. I’ve never missed an election, never voted Republican, and when I go to the polls to choose a president I always wear a tie out of respect for the office. I worry about whales and guns and ozone holes and movie violence. I hate artificial turf and the designated hitter. I even recycle.
I believe, unshakably, in the words of Thomas Jefferson: All men are created equal.
That said, I continue to carry a particular prejudice like a hump. It doesn’t feel right--in your heart, what prejudice does?--but it’s been part of me for so long, I tend to ignore it. I can’t igno
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Basketball: British star reveals the difficulties of coming out in sport
John Amaechi, the basketball player who briefly became Britain's best-paid sportsman after playing in the US NBA league, says "the music stops" for sports stars who declare they are gay.
Amaechi, 36, who comes out in his autobiography Man in the Middle, published next week by ESPN, told the cable TV channel that his action ran against the image that all sports are obsessed with. "[Sportsmen are] a testosterone-riddled group - [as is] professional sport," he said. "[Sport is] very ancient Greek in its philosophy; it's the pinnacle of man - that's what people think. [Players are] men women want to be with and men men want to be like - or something like that. It knocks the deck and makes the music jump when you have to think, 'Oh, maybe the person that I really love and support is gay.' The music stops for a second."
Amaechi has never been afraid of making bold pronouncements. While in the US, he received death threats for ridiculing the country's gun culture and George Bush's foreign policy. But his latest d
Getting Over It : How Does a Straight Guy Get Beyond Homophobia? A Gay Football Player Gives Him Some Answers
I am an American, New York born, male by construction and heterosexual by design. At 43, I have some history behind me. My behavior is relatively consistent. My patterns have been set.
When Vietnam was raging, I returned my draft card and stood vigil at the Pentagon. I’ve marched for civil rights and women’s rights, protested the Gulf War and the first Rodney King verdicts. I refuse to cross a picket line. I’ve never missed an election, never voted Republican, and when I go to the polls to choose a president I always wear a tie out of respect for the office. I worry about whales and guns and ozone holes and movie violence. I hate artificial turf and the designated hitter. I even recycle.
I believe, unshakably, in the words of Thomas Jefferson: All men are created equal.
That said, I continue to carry a particular prejudice like a hump. It doesn’t feel right--in your heart, what prejudice does?--but it’s been part of me for so long, I tend to ignore it. I can’t igno
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Basketball: British star reveals the difficulties of coming out in sport
John Amaechi, the basketball player who briefly became Britain's best-paid sportsman after playing in the US NBA league, says "the music stops" for sports stars who declare they are gay.
Amaechi, 36, who comes out in his autobiography Man in the Middle, published next week by ESPN, told the cable TV channel that his action ran against the image that all sports are obsessed with. "[Sportsmen are] a testosterone-riddled group - [as is] professional sport," he said. "[Sport is] very ancient Greek in its philosophy; it's the pinnacle of man - that's what people think. [Players are] men women want to be with and men men want to be like - or something like that. It knocks the deck and makes the music jump when you have to think, 'Oh, maybe the person that I really love and support is gay.' The music stops for a second."
Amaechi has never been afraid of making bold pronouncements. While in the US, he received death threats for ridiculing the country's gun culture and George Bush's foreign policy. But his latest d
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