Bill Simmons Discusses Being 'Out' in the Sports World
Bill Simmons most recent podcast is a good one. Simmons had openly gay ESPN sports reporter LZ Granderson on to talk about longtime Boston Herald sports columnist Steve Buckley’s recent “coming out” column. Simmons says he expected more from Buckley’s piece.
“In 2011, is it too little to come out and write a column that says, ‘I’m gay?'”
Granderson disagreed: “I’m certain his words touched someone that needed to hear those words. It was evident during the discussion surrounding ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,’ we have a long way to go to discussing homosexuality in a rational way.
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