15.04.11
The real outrage is that at a time when anti-gay insults and intimidation are the main causes of suicide among LGBT youth, saying "fag" allows and encourages million to expand harass our young people.
Kobe Bryant, Lakers basketball superstar musician, Tuesday night, looked him straight in a television camera TNT and called the referee a "fucking fag." Defense of Bryant? "Frustration."It took three attempts and Bryant 24 hours to consider the situation with the gay community, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people and their allies, but if his attempts - at least initially - an estimated half-tone, it may perhaps because they were. Although the Internet platforms like Facebook and twitter voraciously taken to the controversy, it was plain Bryant fans and supporters of LGBT-numbered their opponents support - if not in the legions, at least in volume .
Ironically, the words Bryant would not have been more relevant.Neutral hours before the NBA Board of the announcement, and GLSEN was recording a public announcement equipment against anti-gay language as part of GLSEN "Dream up before speaking" campaign, which will aired during the NBA Finals, in an effort to show in collusion with as most gay-friendly. "And this week marks the fifteenth anniversary of GLSEN's" Day Still ", an effort in which hundreds of thousands of students nationwide to take a vow to win to draw attention to anti-LGBT slurs, intimidation and harassment in schools, "according to GLSEN.
Source: The New Civil Rights Movement