The Louisville Courier-Journal has been accused by irate readers of "pushing the ol' homosexual agenda" for publishing this photo of two Louisville Cardinals baskeball players totally being gay with each other. The paper's ombud says there will be no apology and asks what is so wrong about publishing photos of hot student athlete-on-student athlete action. [Courier-Journal via Romenesko]
Apart from the stupidity of course, that 1. the commotion in straightland has anything to do with life on this planet and should not be taken seriously, 2. the assumption that these two not-twinks-but-men feeling so free to 'be totally gay' with each other is right, I must say 3. that the picture being 2-dimensional as we see it hides the depth and wants us to believe the one kisses the other. A good looker who knows how kissing goes, sees in an instant that he is only hugging, nothing more. The straight panic gang sees more gay action than there really is. Telling me something about er, wishful thinking Freud this and that and so on? LOL
Mories - www.gayboysupport.nl - oo, don't get shocked again! :-)
Okay, wait a minute. I just read the article in question, and the "pushing the ol' homosexual agenda" line is clearly in jest. Here's the full comment:
Sounds to me like pushing the ol' homosexual agenda. If basketball players can lip lock, why can't anybody. Just natural emotions. Now let's get back to the smoking ban...
So: my state may be full of bigoted idiots, but that doesn't mean we're all bigoted idiots.
No, no. Kentuckians just don't like it when the papers publish pictures of black people.
