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Matt Berringer comes out as gay.

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Alex.:

--- Quote from: Bunky on January 22, 2018, 08:56:10 PM ---I wonder how he feels about the tons of gay jokes that get thrown around in the bmx community.
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It's not just the BMX community, it's any action sports that holds this super machismo aspect to it. Skating, Moto, snowboarding, whatever. Slap that onto the fact the main/common insult in the early 2000's was "you're gay". I feel like almost everyone is okay with gay people now, even in our sport. Most motorsports fans are still really sketchy, though.

Fuck, I logged onto my PinkBike account the other day to sell some parts and I was actually shocked at how annoying and rude I was with my comments when I was ~15 years old. Almost everything I disliked and commented on was "fucking gay". hahaha, I deleted my account because it was essentially just my name. But I remember back then, some of my friends voicemails would be "Hey, I can't get to the phone right not but you're gay!"

Things were definitely different. Not that they were better, just different.

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