Men seek damages for ‘gay slur’ on California theme park photo

via Pink News, By Jessica Green

Two men are suing a California theme park for damages after a photo of them on a ride was allegedly doctored and displayed with a gay slur.
Craig Person and Edmund Yang went on the Psycho Mouse ride at California’s Great America park in August 2008 and were photographed holding hands.

After the ride, they decided not to buy the photograph but friends later told them the image had been printed out and displayed at the ride’s counter with the caption ‘Were [sic] fags’, a lawsuit says.

The men went to the park’s managers to complain. While the lawsuit says the park was initially responsive, communication then dried up.

Their attorney, Wendy Musell, said: “Mr Yang was in the process of coming out, and it was very difficult for him to deal with this type of ridicule based on his sexual orientation.”

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Kobe, This is How You Respond to A Gay Slur

By Andrew Sharp via SBNation.com

After Kobe Bryant's homophobic comments last week, the NBA's fined him $100,000, Kobe apologized, and Wednesday, the Lakers released a public service announcement to promote gay rights. And all of that's well and good. But just for perspective's sake, here's a story that's 1,000 times cooler.

Recently, during a Brazilian volleyball match, the home crowd began chanting "bicha" at a visiting player, the equivalent of a bunch of Lakers fans calling Kevin Garnett a "faggot."

But here's what's worse—unlike the ref that Kobe called gay, the Brazilian player was actually gay, and after the game, he admitted as much publicly. So... a pretty terrible story all around. But that's when it starts getting good.

At the next match, the players joined together to wear pink warmup shirts to show solidarity. One of them even wore a rainbow-colored jersey.

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