Morally Conscious


Logo Design by FlamingText.com
Logo Design by FlamingText.com
Logo Design by FlamingText.com

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Dalton Maldonado: Another Case Of Unintentional Intentional Gay Discrimination

This is Dalton Maldonado a senior starting point guard for his high school basketball team in Kentucky, Betsy Layne High School.  He was openly gay and it became a problem that the school district looked in to after some homophobic bad sportsmanship happened at a game from another team.  It was important enough for the school district to look into this kind of bullying, but then his yearbook came out.  His own school yearbook left him out of the senior players...that's not something that should have been overlooked.  It should have been celebrated that he was part of the team.

I truly believe that there is no such thing as a GAY basketball player...just basketball players.

The point that his yearbook will always make to him in the future is that I played on this team, but they left me out because I was gay.  It's the message that you don't see that hurts the most.