Tag: homophobic

Openly gay Tongan athlete Amini Fonua issued a sharp condemnation on Thursday to a horribly irresponsible and exploitative Daily Beast story on athletes’ use of sex apps in Rio that might have outed gay athletes. Fonua, an Olympic swimmer who competed in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke, blasted Nico Hines’ article on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AminiFonua/status/763834470009036800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/AminiFonua/status/763835853533839360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/AminiFonua/status/763836245428633600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw @NicoHines Seriously fuck off with your str8 white male privilege preying on closeted people who can't live in their truth yet. U ruin us — Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11,...

The internet has rallied around a gay couple who had their holiday ruined by a vile anti-gay attack. Vestal and his husband Tristan, from London, were attacked while on a night out while on the Greek island of Mykonos. The pair were just two days into their holiday when the attack took place, while they were leaving a well-known local gay hotspot. The couple were hit on the head from behind and punched and kicked as they lay unconscious on the ground....

A popular theater director and his partner were the victims of a sneering homophobic rant by a London bus driver who first denied them entrance at the front of the bus and then refused to drive after they entered through a rear door, reports the Evening Standard. According to Omar Okai, he and his boyfriend felt “humiliated” as the innuendo-laden insults were thrown at them by the driver of the 25 bus route. “We put our hands out to get the...

'I am a gay bagpiper and I’m proud.' A student who was harassed by a homophobic street preacher responded in the best way, drowning his bigotry out with bagpipes. Brice Ehmig, a fourth year political science student at Florida Gulf Coast University, was sick of the preacher’s homophobic rants. On several ocassions, the preacher compared homosexuality to bestiality and yelled at her for holding hands with her girlfriend. And in a video on her Facebook page, Brice trolls the bigot by blaring out...

An enlightening Reddit thread asks students for examples of their most homophobic school experiences, and the responses range from chilling to inspiring. “I remember in the 6th grade my teacher said being gay was disgusting and an abomination,” writes the original poster. “I just want to know how common this is. I’m 21 now but I wonder if it’s still like that in schools or if things are different.” And in general, yes, things are different — but here and there, little pockets...

My name is Gary I’m 34, I am an entrepreneur, a homosexual and a homophobe. When people find out I am gay, I often get asked the same question, ‘How long have you been gay for?’ And I wonder, are they asking about when I realised I was attracted to the same sex? Or when I actually came out? Or, is less delicate than that? Maybe their asking when I decided? Or was I born gay? Can you really be born...

“It’s a humiliating bombshell that could destroy Will Smith’s fractured marriage,” the lead reads. “The Suicide Squad actor has been drawn into a secret hush money and cover-up scandal with his rumored gay lover!” Those are the words of blogger Melissa Cronin at RadarOnline, whose latest attempt at outing Will Smith was published bright and early this morning. Happy Tuesday! “The explosive allegations about Smith’s scheme with actor and longtime friend Duane Martin were uncovered in scandalous court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com,” Cornin writes. Humiliating bombshell? Cover-up scandal? Explosive...

Contrary to what the name might suggest, Blake Shelton is not a character in a Danielle Steel novel. He is in fact a country music singer, hailing from the part of the country that makes you go, “oh, I know a few people who grew up there before they moved out.” He is also a hilarious comedian who engages in observational humor about those who really deserve to be taken down a peg: women, gays, and foreigners. Ho ho, at last, it’s about...

A record 43 LGBT athletes are competing in the Rio Olympics games this summer, but some of those Olympians have already become the targets of homophobic slurs from the crowds, reports the LA Times. The homophobic insults were heard coming from the stands of Estadio Mineirao on Wednesday when women’s soccer players took the field. The L.A. Times reported that people in the stands hurled the anti-gay term, “bicha” -a Portuguese word similar to ‘faggot’ at women on the field. Think Progress...

Homophobia is gay, to quote Dan Savage. A study conducted in 1996 found that homophobic men responded favorably downstairs when viewing “male homosexual” “erotic stimuli.” They were shown gay, straight and lesbian “stimuli,” and while both the homophobic and non-homophobic men became aroused during the straight and lesbian material, only the antigay men were aroused during the gay imagery. “Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies,” the abstract of that...

NBC Sports seems to have a problem treating gay athletes, and the gay parents of athletes, with the same respect and visibility it shows to their heterosexual counterparts. They failed to identify Tom Daley‘s financé Dustin Lance Black when showing he and Daley’s mother in the crowd, dressed in matching “Team Daley” shirts. Black, an Academy Award winning screenwriter, is famous in his own right. Mentioning the family members and partners of athletes while showing them cheering in the stands is typically a...

Ah, the kiss cam. That cute, time tested stunt seen at sporting events around the world to keep people entertained during slow moments between the action. It’s a lot less cute when you add homophobia into the mix, as TV presenter Paul Hand did while commentating on the women’s tennis singles quarterfinals of the 2016 Olympics in Rio. “Let’s hope they don’t go on to two blokes sat next to each other,” Hand said, after encouraging straight couples to kiss. The BBC has issued an apology,...

“You faggot!” That’s what a 28-year-old New York man heard shortly before being stabbed in the left side of the chest. The unnamed victim was sitting with his sister and boyfriend on the 1 train on Saturday evening around 7 p.m., heading towards the 110th Street station in Morningside Heights. The attacker allegedly became incensed upon realizing the victim and his friend were a couple. An argument ensued, which culminated in the thug breaking out a knife and stabbing the victim. The suspect...

This gay American couple are fighting LGBT hate by posting a photo of them kissing daily on Instagram. In the days that followed the the tragic events at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, where 49 people were killed, Denis Farr and his boyfriend Pete Eusch decided to start a protest against the senseless violence in their own way. https://www.instagram.com/p/BIQETOfggkf/?taken-by=significant.otter Ever day, for an entire year, the pair would post a picture of them kissing along with the hashtag #TwoMenKissing. Why #TwoMenKissing? Well, it was...