Listen not to the apology Turner issued for insensitive, homophobic and racist tweets he authored a half-dozen years ago. “Honestly, being a queer sports fan, you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop every time you invest in someone,” Kelly Wallace said. “It feels like an actual gut-punch,” Jenn Rubenstein said. You might say: What are these athletes who grew up in the age of social media to do? There’s no acknowledgment of the actual content of what’s said.”That could change, beginning now.

Source: Washington Post July 30, 2018 20:42 UTC