GLAAD to NFL: Punish Larry Johnson

TMZ ^ | October 26, 2009

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Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson is in hot water with GLAAD -- after the former NFL Pro-Bowler reportedly dropped the homophobic f-bomb twice in the last 24 hours.

President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Jarrett Barrio is calling for the NFL to take action against Johnson, saying "All too often this is the word that is used to ridicule and harass young gay and transgender athletes on local sports fields across America.

Professional athletes who use this word need to be held accountable for feeding a climate of intolerance toward our community. NFL officials need to take action and condemn this and future uses of this anti-gay epithet."

Earlier today, it was reported Johnson hurled the slur at a group of reporters after he had already used the same f-word to attack someone on Twitter.

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While I would not personally use this word and don't agree with using it, that doesn't mean this guy can't say it.

[stubernx98]

It is now hate speech - 2 years in Jail! Yeah and look what Rush said and look what happened to him.

[darkangel82]

*yawn* fruit cakes thinking they can tell the NFL what to do

[nascarnation]

Finally an NFLer we can believe in, LOL.

[shadeaud]

calling someone a fag does not demean anyone. How about the word lezo which connotates the word lesbian is that now to be erraticated as well. Queer? Dike? Lets get rid of the word ‘’gay’’. Just call people either hetrosexual of homosexual. I personally feel insulted when the homofobe word is used.

[Dixie Yooper]

Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson is in hot water with GLAAD

I didn't realize that The Man From GLADD was with the Film Actors Guild...I thought he was selling sandwich bags.

[TomServo]

faggot
faggot
faggot
faggot
faggot

Screw the homos...

[pissant]

What are the little fags complaining about?

[wac3rd]

This is a Liberal quandary...who will win of the “protected classes,” e.g. African-Americans and Homosexuals.

We know how the Michael Vick vs. PETA went for Mike....

[Gay State Conservative]

Fag...fruit...fairy....all very descriptive words.

Next issue!!!

[bearsgirl90]

LMAO!!
You’re my hero! ;-)

[italianquaker]

Good thing they kept the racist Rush out of the NFL(sarc)

[benewton]

Faggots are.

Unlike mosquitoes, you can’t spray against them, so I guess they’ll just continue to be, and to bitch.

I did think once that we could discontinue all AIDS drugs and research, and simply leave them alone, but I suspect that that’d be a hate crime.

Oh well, so it goes.

[bearsgirl90]

Y'all should have heard what my God fearing, American loving, southern~born Gramma used to call "them" when she was alive!!
Talk about "politically incorrect"!!

[Nephi]

Well?!

[2CAVTrooper]

What's wrong with the word Fag? –verb (used with object) 1. to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out. 2. British. to require (a younger public-school pupil) to do menial chores. 3. Nautical. to fray or unlay the end of (a rope). –verb (used without object) 4. Chiefly British. to work until wearied; work hard: to fag away at French. 5. British Informal. to do menial chores for an older public-school pupil. –noun 6. Slang. a cigarette. 7. a fag end, as of cloth. 8. a rough or defective spot in a woven fabric; blemish; flaw. 9. Chiefly British. drudgery; toil. 10. British Informal. a younger pupil in a British public school required to perform certain menial tasks for, and submit to the hazing of, an older pupil. 11. a drudge. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Origin: 1425–75; late ME fagge broken thread in cloth, loose end (of obscure orig.); sense development appar.: drooping end > to droop, tire > to make weary > drudgery, drudge (cf. relationship of flag 1 to flag 3 ); (def. 6) a shortening of fag end (a butt, hence a cigarette) fag·ot also fag·got (fāg'ət) n. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars. tr.v. fag·ot·ed also fag·got·ed, fag·ot·ing also fag·got·ing, fag·ots also fag·gots To bind into a fagot; bundle. To decorate with fagoting. I tell you these heterophobes are so thin skinned.

[03A3]

transgender athletes

WTH? Isnt this what gets them in trouble in track and field all of the time? I'm sick of the butt burglars.

[mamelukesabre]

LOL!

That’s probably what they want you to do.

[Tallguy]

This is a Liberal quandary...who will win of the “protected classes,” e.g. African-Americans and Homosexuals.

My money is on the homosexuals, only Blacks seem to finish second when it comes to clashes among Democrat interest groups.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Hey, he can’t help it if the fags have thin skin.

He’s an NFL millionaire so, GLAAD must be rassis.

[Tail Gunner John]

“screw the homos”?

Thanks, but no thanks.

[denydenydeny]

I’m sorry, but saying “faggot” is not the same as saying the n-word, for any number of historical reasons.

The conflation of the two terms as somehow equally bad should be deeply offensive to all Americans, in particular African-Americans.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Perhaps Mr. Johnson wanted a cigarette. I can understand the consternation toward an athlete who wants to smoke but why should GLAAD care about that?

[Tucker39]

Sorry! After the NFL folded up like a cheap umbrella for Sharpton and Jackson in the Rush Limbaugh incident.......it wouldn’t surprise me if they dropped to their knees and rendered someone a hummer over THIS incident. Larry may be in trouble.

[ZOOKER]

I say this story goes nowhere.

Johnson is a mediocre player on a team that would be overjoyed to be rated "mediocre". No one cares what he thinks.

If the player's union lets him get fired over this, the irony would be delicious, though.

By the way, I heard Ron Mexico is a racist...

[LeonardFMason]

What word? FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG FAG

[packrat35]

Wow looks like free speech is dead in America!

[packrat35]

I say Freaks or fudgepackers myself.

Good God, now we have an f-word too!

[eyeamok]

Sodomite is the correct and biblical term

[ArrogantBustard]

What "F" word?

Fairy? Fruitcake? Faggot?

[Ol' Sparky]

It's pretty outrageous to equate the word faggot to the word nigger. That implies there isn't any difference between sexual deviancy and skin color. The goal of making the two equivalent to to normalize homosexuality.

Homosexuals deserve no more respect than pedophiles, zoophiles, those with foot fetishes or those with any other sort of perverse sexuality.