Dennis Rodman Thinks 10-20% Of Professional Athletes Are Homosexual
Dennis Rodman is making headlines once more, and this time it’s not for his relationship with North Korean Supreme Chief Kim Jong-un.
Rodman was making the rounds selling the ESPN 30-for-30 documentary “Rodman: For Higher or Worse” when he talked about gay athletes with Enterprise Insider.
He believes 10 to 20 p.c athletes are homosexual and says it’s time for extra homosexual athletes to come back out.
Within the 4 main males’s skilled sports activities there aren’t any presently energetic, brazenly homosexual gamers.
Rodman thinks they’re there and needs to be allowed to dwell brazenly and freely.
“I do not know why individuals have not got here out earlier than. It is cool that individuals are popping out being, you recognize, homosexual or gay or no matter, lesbian and stuff like that.”
The “why” is pretty easy.
The locker rooms and tradition surrounding males’s skilled sports activities haven’t been sort, to place it mildly, to the LGBTQ+ group prior to now.
The worry of being ostracized and one’s livelihood being taken away is what has stopped athletes from popping out.
Throughout Rodman’s enjoying profession, many individuals questioned his sexuality.
There was the notorious 1995 Sports activities Illustrated cowl story, the place he gave his ideas on sexuality.
He opened up about dressing in drag, partying at homosexual golf equipment, and having sexual fantasies about males.
Many assume he’s homosexual.
“I used to be, you recognize, doing all of the drag golf equipment, I used to be dressing in drag. I used to be dressing in ladies’s garments, I used to be doing lingerie and stuff like that, and folks within the homosexual group began embracing me. For those who’re homosexual, I did not give a rattling.”
Rodman says he’s not homosexual, however in the end that doesn’t matter. The bigger level is that folks ought to really feel secure to be themselves.
Rodman believes 10-20% of gamers within the NBA and all of professional sports activities are homosexual.
“I would not be stunned, actually, I’ve mentioned all of it alongside, if 10% or 20% of individuals within the NBA, or any sports activities, [are] homosexual. I would not be stunned. It would not shock me in any respect. I feel immediately, it would not shock anybody. I feel that’d be extra acceptable now than something.”
