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National gay athlete hall of fame launched in Chicago
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 1, 2013 | Ellen Jean Hirst

Posted on 05/01/2013 7:17:18 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Just as Jason Collins, a veteran NBA player, announced he is gay, a hall of fame for gay athletes and allies launched in Chicago.

The nonprofit National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame will accept nominees beginning this summer. Its goal is to honor people and organizations that have "stood up to stereotypes" and embraced gay and lesbian athletes, said Bill Gubrud, executive director and board chairman.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: athletes; gays; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; museum; sports
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To: ConservativeStatement
I nominate the WNBA, LPGA, and all girls’ & women’s softball leagues.
21 posted on 05/01/2013 7:32:29 AM PDT by twister881
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To: ConservativeStatement
The White Sox have a Hall of Flamer!

Fixed.

22 posted on 05/01/2013 7:32:45 AM PDT by KevinB (A country that would elect Barack Obama president twice is no longer worth fighting for.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

23 posted on 05/01/2013 7:34:44 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Iron Munro

http://www.moviesoundclips.net/download.php?id=364&ft=mp3


24 posted on 05/01/2013 7:36:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: ConservativeStatement
In the bookstore, you can purchase the world's smallest book: Gay Evolutionists: The Next Generation.
25 posted on 05/01/2013 7:36:40 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: ConservativeStatement

is this next to the infamous molestr hall of infamy?

how many sports will now have to have criminal defense funds for abuse victim pay offs?

nobody is discussing his NBA holiness’ fiance of 8 years.

she must be very ticked. where is her law suit?


26 posted on 05/01/2013 7:39:46 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Above the entrance...”Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here”.


27 posted on 05/01/2013 7:40:10 AM PDT by albie (s)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Its goal is to honor people and organizations that have "stood up to flaunted, reveled in and personified stereotypes"

There. Fixed it.

28 posted on 05/01/2013 7:41:40 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Will it include the National AIDS hall of “fame” as well?


29 posted on 05/01/2013 7:43:24 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving city.


30 posted on 05/01/2013 7:44:57 AM PDT by basil (basil --Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Certainly Jerry Sandusky will be in the first group of inductees — part of the Hall of Flame's pedophile / pederast wing.
31 posted on 05/01/2013 7:47:35 AM PDT by twister881
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To: ConservativeStatement

The “hall of fame” is being opened in an abandoned phone booth. There’s plenty of space to sublet.


32 posted on 05/01/2013 7:48:19 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Reggie Love and Barack Obama nominated in the Two Man Towel Snap.


33 posted on 05/01/2013 7:49:51 AM PDT by llevrok (2013: America is in a cold civil war.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bathrooms? I’d think the patrons would be very disappointed if there are not full fledged bath houses.....


34 posted on 05/01/2013 7:54:04 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: cripplecreek

YUK? Who is in that pic?


35 posted on 05/01/2013 7:54:24 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: ConservativeStatement
A prime candidate jock...


36 posted on 05/01/2013 7:56:21 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Piffle....)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I could see some athletes nominating each other as a joke...


37 posted on 05/01/2013 7:57:26 AM PDT by jughandle
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To: ConservativeStatement

THEY NEED TO HAVE THEIR OWN LEAGUES SEPARATE FROM NORMAL
ATHLETES


38 posted on 05/01/2013 8:08:27 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Why do we need to know about what this guy, whom I’ve never heard of, does in the bedroom? What happened to the days of not airing your dirty laundry and keeping your sex life private?


39 posted on 05/01/2013 8:20:00 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

National Pederast Hall of Fame to open soon.


40 posted on 05/01/2013 8:25:43 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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