ST. LOUIS — LGBT rights advocates have criticized an ESPN reporter
for discussing whether gay St. Louis Rams defensive end Michael Sam has
showered with his teammates during the preseason.
Josina Anderson said during an August 26 segment that a defense
player told her “Sam is respecting our space and that from his perspective he
seems to think Michael Sam is waiting to kind of take a shower as not to make
his teammates uncomfortable.” The ESPN reporter referred to two other Rams
players who said they “weren’t tracking that,” but she continued to discuss the
issue.
Cyd Zeigler, co-founder of Outsports.com, an LGBT sports website,
criticized Anderson in a video he shot from a shower inside his Los Angeles
home.
“As a gay man I have to shower by myself in my own shower because
God forbid I might shower with straight guys, there’d be some kind of issue
there, at least that’s the message that Josina Anderson was sending today with
her report for ESPN about Michael Sam and whether he’s been showering been with
his teammates or not,” said Zeigler. “It’s disgusting to me that she and
frankly that ESPN would allow this to happen.”
Sam, a former defensive end for the University of Missouri, came
out as gay earlier this year.
The Rams drafted him in May.
Sam on August 26 survived the team’s first round of roster cuts.
I'm not gay. I don't follow sports, at all. Why did this ever come up in the first place? My head's on straight and my ego's intact. I could shower with men and women without a problem. It's time we moved beyond such small mindedness.
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