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to increasing pressure on the National Foot
ball League to address the problem of homo
phobia and make clear that it will not toler
ate harassment and discrimination against
gay players. Elizabeth Birch, Human Rights
Campaign executive director, outlined her
concerns in a Nov. 19 letter to commissioner
Paul Tagliabue.
“We hope Tuaolo’s experience has created an
opportunity for the NFL and H RC to begin a
dialogue about ways the league can implement
existing guidelines regarding harassment and
discrimination against gay players,” she said.
“These hard-working employees should not
have to fear reprisals, such as getting intention
ally injured or cut from a roster— worries well
articulated by Tuaolo.”
Tuaolo, a nine-year veteran of the NFL,
came out Oct. 29 on H BO’s Real Sports. During
the interview, he spoke of a homophobic envi
ronment where he often would hear anti-gay
comments or jokes.
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players confirm Tuaolo’s assessment of the
league.
W hen asked about his feelings on having
a gay teammate, San Francisco 49ers running
back G arrison Hearst told a Fresno Bee
columnist O ct. 27: “Aww, hell no! 1 don’t
wearing T-shirts with the message “Free to
speak against homosexuality, against abortion,
against evolution.”
“If Boyd County High School needed any
more proof that its students need a safe space to
be themselves and talk about sexual orientation
issues, the hostility and fear behind these actions
have made it abundantly clear,” said Matt Coles,
ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project director,
and Jeff Vessels, ACLU of Kentucky executive
director, in a joint statement Nov. 7. “The peo
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know that the rights of students everywhere to
form alliances in their schools is a part of our cul
tural heritage of freedom and diversity.”
Lively is co-author of The Pink Swastika:
Homosexuals and the Nazi Party, a book blaming
gay people for the Holocaust. In 1991 he assault
ed Portland lesbian photojoumalist Catherine
Stauffer at an O C A event, leading to a $31,000
judgment in her favor and the arrest of Mahon
earlier this year on contempt-of-court charges.
Students who are working to form G ay Straight
Alliances in their schools can contact the A C LU
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project at 212-549-2673
or safeschools@ aclu.org.
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s part of a nationwide Day of Action,
queer unionists joined a coalition of
labor, community and student organizations
Nov. 21 to shine a light on W al-M art’s abuse
o f workers and aggressive anti-union activi
ties; lack o f respect and abusive treatment of
employees who are queer, women, people of
color and differently abled; and policies that
are swallowing up jobs and local business.
Pride at Work noted that the retailer has no
nondiscrimination policy covering sexual ori
entation or gender identity and doesn’t offer
same-sex partner benefits.
A San Diego federal jury awarded $535,000
to a former Wal-Mart employee who was sexu
ally harassed because she is gay. The woman said
the retailer did nothing after she complained
that her manager repeatedly asked about her ori
entation, made sexual jokes and passed around
pornography during meetings.
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want any faggots on my team. 1 know this
might not be what people want to hear, but
that’s a punk. 1 don’t want any faggots in this
locker room.”
On the Real Sports segment, former team
mate Sterling Sharpe said that if Tuaolo had
come out while in the NFL, “he would have
been eaten alive, and he would have been
hated for it.” He then suggested a gay player
might be intentionally injured, even by his
own teammates.
Nevertheless, the league has a nondiscrimi
nation policy that includes sexual orientation
and an anti-harassment policy that forbids “epi
thets, slurs or negative stereotypes.” However,
Birch said the message clearly is not getting
through to all players.
“Tuaolo’s experience and the lack of other
out individuals strongly suggest that most
players are not aware of the NFL’s current
rules governing harassment and discrimina
tion,” she wrote. “It is cle a r.. .there is a serious
problem that needs to be addressed in the
near future.”
Birch also asked the NFL to send a strong
signal of its opposition to anti-gay discrimina
tion by taking affirmative steps such as sensi
tivity training and offering domestic partner
benefits.
“H RC suggests that the NFL addresses this
issue at the yearly rookie symposium, where
social issues faced by players are addressed,”
she wrote.