Cenk Uygur
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Gay Basketball Player Cut From Yearbook
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August 15, 2015
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5:35Now PlayingBetsy Layne High School in Kentucky has discriminated against a gay player on their basketball team. This basketball player did come out as gay recently. His name is Dalton Maldonado. He came out as gay because he was dealing with some slurs that students calling him.
Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Are you disheartened that slights like this are still happening in the United States? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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Betsy Layne High School in rural Kentucky this year had a two-page yearbook spread that featured all of the seniors on the boys basketball team. Except, one senior was left out of the tribute: Dalton Maldonado, the team's starting point guard who came out publicly as gay a couple months ago.
This is the latest slap in the face of Maldonado and the entire LGBT community by a high school administration that simply won't accept that one of its star athletes is gay and was harassed for his sexual orientation by an opposing basketball team last December. The school's yearbook has omitted its starting senior point guard from the senior boys basketball tribute page in the yearbook, a deeply insulting blow to an athlete who has contributed to his school.
You can see the two-page spread here - Maldonado is, in fact, missing entirely from the page's call-out list of players (even including underclassmen)
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