{"id":28863,"date":"2010-11-17T10:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=28863"},"modified":"2013-12-02T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T04:22:50","slug":"powder-blue-faggots-more-sporting-homophobic-taunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/17\/powder-blue-faggots-more-sporting-homophobic-taunts\/","title":{"rendered":"“Powder Blue Faggots”: More Sporting Homophobic Taunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast month we posted a clip of a group of Yankee fans taunting two teenage Red Sox fans by yelling a homophobic version of YMCA<\/a>.\u00a0 In the comment thread, Amadi linked to another instance in which men mocked other men with reference to homosexuality in a sports context.\u00a0 At a football game between Eastlake North and Willoughby South High Schools (outside of Cleveland, Ohio), fans were recorded chanting “powder blue faggots!” across the field.\u00a0 The summary on youtube<\/a> reports that the other side was chanting, in reply “Halloween homos!”<\/p>\n

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Video by Heather Ike; graphics, editing, captions, pictures, and screenshots added by Sean Chapin\u00a0at\u00a0Joe.My.God<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Myaisha for the tip!<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month we posted a clip of a group of Yankee fans taunting two teenage Red Sox fans by yelling a homophobic version of YMCA.\u00a0 In the comment thread, Amadi linked to another instance in which men mocked other men with reference to homosexuality in a sports context.\u00a0 At a football game between Eastlake North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,2087,54,108],"class_list":["post-28863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28863"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59555,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28863\/revisions\/59555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}