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A Jungle in Mad for the weekend of Pentecost, with MensGo!

May 172013

Enter the Mad equals out covered … © Gay-Party.com.

(Blogmensgo, May 17, 2013) Want a taste Monday of Pentecost? You want a taste of the event aoûtien Barcelona Circuit Festival 2013 ? Well, we suggest you a formula two-in-one in partnership with MensGo . You’ll have to just be in Lausanne during the night of Sunday 19 to Monday, May 20, 2013.

This is the club Mad as your eyes, your ears and your palate every temptation will be submitted for an unforgettable night Jungle Pentecost .

Ear celebrations will focus on the disco. Logical, since the festive night is called I love disco .And disco, we will serve you in all sources: London, New York, Zurich, Geneva, Barcelona. If I wrote twice Zurich, it is because two different DJ will make the trip to Zurich for you to fill their ears.

Visual side, one city: Barcelona. Logic again, because Jungle Pentecost is stamped pre-partyCircuit Festival. The lucky ones will be able to watch Lausanne Sexy Boyz aforementioned circuit Barcelona. Filled their purses may empty yours, then watch out for your (sub)! (Let me be allowed to ventilate a little layout after this raunchy pun tri-band …)

As the palace, my Prince, yours may satisfy his itch lift for 69 Swiss francs (55 euros). For that price, the ticket is free – but not edible – and you can get from 20 h to fill the rumen provided you have booked your menu. We do not take it the bladders for lanterns or beef for the horse (unless the meal is not served at the time, which never happens in Switzerland).

Ceusses who prefer to feast on an empty stomach, normal conditions: 30 francs (24 Euros) on the spot at 2200hrs, or 25 francs via the Internet (20 euros).

And as usual, photos from the event will probably be posted later in the space gallery clubbingof MensGo – your international gay social network five-star, 100% free and unlimited.

This article has been translated from our French blog, to view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

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General homophobia in French football

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May 162013

Blogmensgo, May 2, 2013) The researcher and sports psychologist Anthony Mette unveiled April 30, 2013, the analysis of homophobia in professional football he coordinated on behalf of Paris Foot Gay (the club 10 years this year) and with the financial support of Randstad (available here , password foot ).

Paris Foot Gay: website (unavailable) | Facebook page

Players who “declared hostile thoughts toward homosexuals” are 41% in the professional ranks, 50% in the training centers and all sports, 8% in the amateur ranks.

Without comment. Click to enlarge. © PFG.

Fear of gay in the shower

If a teammate came to his coming out, 63% of professional football players and 73% of the training center say they would be surprised to see break such a taboo. Result, 55% of players in training would be afraid to take a shower in the presence of a gay player, 22% would prefer to change teams and even 23% would fear a lesser team performance.

According to Anthony Mette, players are however largely in favor of the idea of having a gay teammate and consider primarily for its sports capital and not his homosexuality.

Anthony Mette explains homophobia training centers by their isolation context (or even imprisonment), competition and aggression.

The referees also!

How to remedy this situation? By educating coaches and training them better on the subject, the report says. Repellini Pierre, who runs a coaching union (Unecatef) But it fails to training best suited against homophobia and said that kids willingly practice verbal homophobia without malice.

Coordinated by Anthony Mette study reports that the players do not have a monopoly on homophobia. Between referees also homophobic behaviors are perennials.

There are two and a half years, France inaugurated a national charter against homophobia in sport (see our article of October 25, 2010 ) that has hardly changed behavior on the pitch and in the stands. Only a professional football club of five signed the charter.

Sanctions nonexistent

Methodology. Studying Anthony Mette looked at 13 clubs (Ligue 1, Ligue 2, National) and 363 athletes, including 121 professional players, 129 players at the training center and 113 athletes constituting a control group. The anonymous questionnaire included a hundred questions about discrimination in general, few issues are devoted to homosexuality. Survey conducted from September 2012 to February 2013.

Comments. In France, the sanctions against top players for homophobic behavior can be counted on the fingers of one hand very amputated because homophobia is not considered unsportsmanlike as well as racism . As for sanctions for abuses homophobic fans, they are almost as rare.

It is different in other countries. In December 2012, for example, a Swedish club did not hesitate to sack all players active homophobia ( source ). In Germany, the official authorities are preparing the ground for footballers would come out (see our article of March 7, 2013 ).

The report underlines the PFG homophobic behavior falls under the personal thought of copy and paste. If the big brother or big athlete claims of fag break, kids training center do the same. If the big brother and especially the most famous footballers were the opposite, it is certain that much of the kids imitate. Is it still the most quoted players deign to engage fully against homophobia.

There is also no doubt that the outrageous behavior of some leaders and commentators obese adversely affects the attitude of the kids.

This article has been translated from our French blog, to view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo (via 20 Minutes of April 29 and NouvelObs.com April 30)

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Coming out of the spectacular American basketball player Jason Collins

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May 142013

Phew! That’s better … © Sports Illustrated .

(Blogmensgo, 14th May 2013) Jason Collins, professional basketball player in the NBA (U.S. Championship) came out of the closet during a lengthy testimony published online April 29, 2013 by Sports Illustrated and the paper version dated May 6 photo in focus.

Jason Collins: coming out | album (© Sports Illustrated)

“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. “ (I’m 34, I’m pivot NBA. I’m black. And I’m gay.)

Thus begins the long confession Jason Collins (co-signed by Franz Lidz). The pivot of the Celtics is aware of being the first high-level athlete in one of the four major sports in the United States (basketball, baseball, American football and ice hockey, football or soccerare is not considered a major sport) to his coming out, but he would rather not be.

Atypical gay sports

Jason Collins is a giant: 2.13 m and 116 kg according to Wikipedia (intimate measurements unspecified). It evolves into NBA championship for twelve years. He signed for the 2012-2013 season with the Boston Celtics, who prepared since February 2013 the Washington Wizards.

Collins does not correspond at all to the Epinal image of gay sports: dance through it on the court, where his fierceness in battle earned him a solid reputation nag and ringworm.

For two years he was thinking out of the closet. If he waited so long is that it will be “completely free” (from any commitment) in July 2013. “I can [now] do more or less what I want,” he says, adding that he wants to stay professional basketball.

The trigger for the release of closet has perhaps been the double case of gay marriage, which is before the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2013. “Less then three miles from my apartment, nine jurists argued about my happiness and my future. “(Less than 5 km from my apartment, nine judges were discussing my happiness and my future.)

One of his immediate plans are to march June 8, 2013 at the Gay Pride in Boston, where he has accepted the invitation . Collins will walk beside the MP Joe Kennedy ( who greets his coming out ), which was his roommate when the two were attending Stanford. “I want to work for tolerance, acceptance and understanding,” says Jason.

What is tata Teri laughed!

This is her aunt Teri he first revealed his homosexuality. “But it’s been years since I know you’re gay! “She answered him. Jason has revealed that the summer of 2012 his homosexuality to his twin brother Jarron, whose long arm of NBA basketball him fell.

For years, Jason Collins felt obliged to do like everyone else, so he knew he was gay for a long time. He went out with girls and was even engaged. But he was not married and had no children while dreaming of having.

98, almost boiling

Jason Collins has hidden his fondness for guys for decades. But without denying the community. As proof, his famous jersey No. 98 refers to a 1998 that has seen the homophobic murder of Matthew Shepard and the creation of The Trevor Project , an organization to aid in the prevention of suicide among LGBT youth.

A boyfriend? Jason Collins does not mention in his testimony, but it seems to be currently single. The same day of his coming out, 100% of orders received by the jerseys Club Washington Wizards dealt No. 98. It is not known if the orders came from fans of the player or single gay lovers.

Congratulations!

Numerous personalities welcomed Jason Collins and his courage. Starting with his brother Jarron, President Barack Obama (and his wife Michelle) and former President Bill Clinton (and her daughter Chelsea). A sports countless active or retired have also welcomed Jason, especially basketball John Wall and Garrett Temple (his current teammates), Shaquille O’Neal, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, Tony Parker (and his ex-wife Eva Longoria.) And also many personalities tennis (Martina Navratilova who made his coming out in 1981, Billie Jean King, Andy Roddick) and entertainment (Ellen DeGeneres, Larry King, Spike Lee, Michael Moore), to mention only a few known on this side of the Atlantic names.

Please note that the club officially supports Washington Wizards Jason Collins and congratulated him on his coming out. Same with his sponsor Nike, for whom gay clientele represents a huge potential market never explored in an explicit manner.

Comment. This just made Jason Collins deserves respect and we can only hope to see other gay athletes follow his example.

However, strength is that none leading gay sports has never been his coming out at the height of his career. Collins out of the closet when he was and never will be veteran of international basketball. The footballer Justin Fashanu did at the end of his career, while the young Swedish footballer Anton Hysén has never been in senior international team and rugby player Gareth Thomas ( cf. article in our December 21, 2009 ) is out of the closet a few months before his retirement.

But again, what did Jason Collins excites me. I wish gay coaches do the same. And most importantly, that the athletes as they do for the national team is still evolving. For it is they who are best able by their charisma and aura of changing attitudes in the right direction.

This article has been translated from our French blog, to view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo (via all the press on 29 April and 30 April 2013, including Le Monde and NouvelObs.com )

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