I wrote a column/feature for New York on the changing attitudes — and others that are not changing — in professional sports involving male gay athletes. (There was originally a section about how life’s a lot more difficult for lesbian athletes than people think, but we ran out of space.) I think the story turned out well, if just because of this pretty great John Amaechi quote: “As a black man, there is no difference between calling me the N-word or calling me the F-word,” says John Amaechi, the former NBA center who made headlines in 2007 by coming out three years after he had retired in his best-selling memoir Man in the Middle. “Both words make me want to kill you.” (Amaechi is roughly six-foot-nine and 300 pounds.)

I wrote a column/feature for New York on the changing attitudes — and others that are not changing — in professional sports involving male gay athletes. (There was originally a section about how life’s a lot more difficult for lesbian athletes than people think, but we ran out of space.) I think the story turned out well, if just because of this pretty great John Amaechi quote:

“As a black man, there is no difference between calling me the N-word or calling me the F-word,” says John Amaechi, the former NBA center who made headlines in 2007 by coming out three years after he had retired in his best-selling memoir Man in the Middle. “Both words make me want to kill you.” (Amaechi is roughly six-foot-nine and 300 pounds.)

  1. belmore reblogged this from lindsayrobertson and added:
    This is a pretty good article, although I wish Leitch had been able to plug in some info about Rick Welts resigning last...
  2. lindsayrobertson reblogged this from leitch and added:
    gave me goosebumps eight separate times.
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