Yahoo! News ran an article tonight titled "Openly gay athlete wins gold medal"
Really.....
As if sexual orientation has anything to do with athletic ability.
why are they treating it like it is some sort of huge, earth shaking issue?
imagine it bein g some other minority in that headline...
people would be furious.
but no...if a gay man wins a gold medal than it must be some sort of unique, once in a lifetime expirence.
what the fuck year are we in, people!?!?!?!
in high school, so many of our varsity athletes were closeted homosexuals (beleive me, i know).
The only difference is that this diver happened to be 'out'.
Fuck it.
I understand a large portion of the LBGTQ community is proud and smiling tonight becuase of this win. And that is fine (just as it is fine for a nation to be proud of a winning representative)...but the fact that it's national news that a gay man won a gold is....beyond me.
this isnt because of my sexual orientation (as i have none)
this is because i am a human being who was brought up to believe that we live in a nation of equality for all.
grow up.
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