Besides Dwight Howard, which athletes are closeted/downlow?

Dwight Howard? He's gay?

Fwiw I don't think a guy being into trans women makes them gay. Still hope DL delivers on juicy gossip

I thought the guy Howard was with identified as gay, not trans....

R3 i thought she was trans. Maybe not

His alleged ex identities as a gay man but presents as an androgynous trans woman.

Could be a cross-dresser. Only Masin knows for sure. They could have been alternating between a trans and gay identity.

Heavy: Masin Elijé, Dwight Howard’s Ex-Boyfriend: ‘I Was Sexually Harassed, Threatened & Manipulated’

Masin Elije is an author and gay man who claims to have dated NBA star Dwight Howard. The author made the bombshell announcement in a Twitter thread on Saturday evening

She looks like him in drag. I will never understand tranny chasers. But to each its own.

Not Tim Tebow. He is a devout Christian and a heterosexual.

Shut up timmy you little bottom bitch

Let's just say his name rhymes with Taron Todgers

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All of them.

Best tennis playsr of all time...

Who?

lets get this thread going people.

Babe Ruth.

Roger Federer, cam newton, cristiana Ronaldo, aaron rodgers, jimmy butler, kevin durant, karl anthony towns, all the wnba, matt anderson( volleyball),

Floyd Mayweather

Joey Ryan

Big Bill Tilden

Always hated Howard as a ball player such skills and physical gifts, but was so soft. BUT this person really is a scum bag to out him. WTF? Shit now I have to be sympathetic to Howard? :)

Why is it wrong to tell the truth about someone?

R21 What do you mean he soft?

Aaron Rodgers. Tim Duncan. Kerry Rhodes.

Chandler Parsons. Luke Walton. And I have never believed that Magic got HIV from a woman.

I hear pinging form Patrick Mahomes of the KC Chiefs.

So basically people are just going to make shit up. Because no one on DL knows any closeted athletes. Waste of time - unless you can tell a story of first hand experience.

"Because no one on DL knows any closeted athletes. Waste of time - unless you can tell a story of first hand experience."

Are you a regular poster? Because there are guys who've poster first hand stories over the years.

Kyrie Irving

R29 I want that man!

R27 - Aaron Rodgers was making $20M a year in Wisconsin and chose to live with a nelly little man who was his “assistant.” He took that assistant to several events, mentioned him on FB and when he broke up with that “assistant” the ex sent out a bunch of tweets that definitely sounded like it was a romantic breakup. There was also a reason why someone as talented as Rodgers wasn’t drafted nearly as high as he should have been on paper - rumors have been around since college.

Cristiano Ronaldo

R31 which was stupid because as a true alpha top Aaron is a natural dominant leader who does not wilt under pressure. A bottom athlete will never live up to their talent because the dominant mind set is just not there.

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Ms. Aikman

Some people insist on keeping that closet shut tight

Ronda Rousey pings

r17 is reaching like fuck. Cam Newtown? Kevin Hart? They have always been linked with women. Where are the fkin recepits?

Yeah and Kevin Durant was fucking some Warriors reporter for awhile, too.

oh, you typed kevin durant not kevin hart. That still is very shocking to me.

Kevin Durant pings to me. Plus he's got certain telltale signs that he's actually gay like being extremely close to his mother -- she used to be very high profile before he joined the warriors along with the lack of girlfriend drama. He "dates" women but you never really hear any kind of gossip about his love life.

Talk to his ex fianceee monica wright!!

r41, But to me that so ignorant. So every black male athlete should have a flock of baby mamas with drama. I think people have forgotten before gay became mainstream there was something actually called "shy guys", nerdy successful guys who remained bachelors until their thirties. Everyone is expected to be a whore nowadays its sad. Its also why STDs are rampant.

I have known Dwight Howard since 2004. I understand that unless you are with someone 24/7 you can never be sure what they do in private, but I have never seen any indication of him being even bi. He really likes women...too much in fact. But I know that if there are guys here that want it to be true, nothing I can say will make a difference. I have no idea who that beast is above who claims to have been his "girlfriend."

KD is another story. He is so emotional and in many ways behaves like a teenage girl, it is possible. I have never heard any stories about him, but he is a very mysterious dude.

Kyrie?? Ummm just no. He is a confirmed white girl lover. I would not be surprised if black women may have started rumors about him because they hated the fact that he had that "no black women allowed" party on the boat in MIA after Cleveland won the NBA championship.

Kyrie's home in Cleveland was a revolving door of white women and white boys. And unlike his former teammate Lebron, he's hung like a horse.

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Lebron isn’t long but he is girthy

Ray Lewis was a familiar face at ATL/DC alternative clubs until his shooting/murder case hit the media. An yup speculation was he was definitely playing with the boys.... He had a type,very rough looking thugs...an he was supposedly topping them like crazy

He is real religious now......

Ray Lewis?!!!! Never heard that one before

qwrr23

LeBron acts gay as fuck. Hell, he hangs out with Justin timberlake and jimmy fallon! The john waters crew is more butch than them.

Lebron isn't gay, he's just one of those "bro's up ho's down" men. Plus he wants very much to be some sort of media star after his basketball career is over. And he thinks very highly of himself -- he can't be bothered with ordinary people unless it benefits him. He's into latinas mostly.

r50 hes gay, those pics of him and dwade on that yacht look like some gay cologne ad. I agree with everything else you said though...spoiled ass bitch.

The Trumpsters here hate LeBron because he campaigned for Clinton

Kevin Durant can go fuck himself.

R2, serious question: does a trans woman have penis? To me, that's gay.

R54, here; meaning if you're a guy and you like a guy who dresses up as a woman but he still has a penis, then yeah, you're gay.

He's not even trans, anyway

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Lewis was a semi-regular at the Gold Room,and yes it was obvious he wasn't there for the ambience

He's a pastor now right OP,I laughed when i heard that.How does one go from possibly killing your suspected boyfriend to religion. Seems sacrilegious

^ Thanks for spilling the tea!

I have to admit Ray Lewis is one of those tales which you wouldn't believe if it were in a novel. Mr. Badass has turned into Mr. Jesus who loves everyone(even Trump...though he is NOT a Trump voter) I can completely believe that he may be bi, I mean he does have kids, but the fact that he never married even once, tells me a lot. I guess the ATL fiasco scared him straight. Literally.

As I said above when talking about my good friend Dwight, you really can't say definitively what someone does when you aren't with them all day everyday; but I am here to say that I KNOW 100% that LeBron is not gay. I mean take it to the bank. Bet your 401K on it. LeBron likes the ladies.

There is too much evidence of that fact to even make a case for him being flexible. He would be fucking 10 different Instahoes every month if he could. He can't. He cares more about his image/future to take any risks now. He knows that Savannah will not forgive his infidelity again, and the idea of a divorce like MJ went through is not on his agenda. I think that his affectations of the country squire gentleman is just part of thee staging of LJ as the major celebrity he aspires to be,

Please don't take this as a put down, but sometimes black men see Russ as possibly gay because he is soft. Some people might see LBJ's new pretensions as gay-ish. Actually what they are is the desire to remove all doubt from those judging that he is far, far removed from the thug life/ghetto scene. I don't need to tell you that many players have no desire to distance themselves from that life. Which is cool...their choice. But they will never be accepted as full on mainstream by white America. And while Russ is already there, LBJ is still trying to establish himself as viable candidate for mainstream acceptance. I adore Cam Newton, but dude doesn't care a lick what Bob and Sally Homeowner think about him. Cam gonna do what Cam wanna do.

The late Aaron Hernandez

Man, you really are going out an a ledge there. ^^^

Very little gossip here in Germany about athletes on the internet and elsewhere, most comment sections got cancelled after a few years as well, so when there is stuff, it means more, you have to google the names, you won't know that many here, did read about former football player Philipp Lahm going to a gay bar in Stuttgart regularly back in the days, read a comment about Manuel Neuer kissing with a guy at a club in younger years, did read rumors about Jürgen Klinsmann and National coach Joachim Löw, former football big wig Mayer-Vorfelder, I guess big casting couch guy, did have wife and kids, most have. Read about Sebastian Deisler having a boyfriend and being gay, some Berlin drag queen who wrote an autobigraphical book said that Robert Enke was gay and that's why he killed himself, both had/have depression, the drag queen also wrote in its book about an affair of his with a football player that seemed to be Arne Friedrich, rumors that Friedrich had an affair with goalkeeper Benaglio, and that's why he had to leave Wolfsburg,

Read a comment about Timo Hildebrand having a relationship with a man for a while back in the days. Insinuations about Jens Lehmann back in the days; someone wrote about a club not allowing its players to go to Christmas party without female companionship, especially also because media makes pictures of the players arriving; someone wrote about Mario Gomez having sex with a male friend of the poster, and another insinuated that the relationship with his former long-term girlfriend wasn't real. A fellow student of mine had a gay friend who lived in London for a while and he said that Terry Venables is gay; insinuations about Rainer Schüttler and Alexander Waske, now quite active in tennis coaching, former players, under-achiever Florian Mayer does have a long-term girlfriend, but he is suspicious; the regular dlers will have read rumors here about Guardiola, Pique, Ibra, maybe some about Iniesta and Xavi. There was a poster here with inside knowledge, SWF, who wrote that Magic, Charles Barkley and Isiah Thomas are gay, especially Barkley and Magic seem to have had lots of straight sex, but still possible. Penny Hardaway is rumored, too, and that's why Shaq wanted to get away from the Magic. Ralf Schumacher seems to have been quite active in the gay life.

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Why is it so hard to believe Hernandez might have been bi-sexual?Not that care one way or the other,he murdered 3 people.That’s all i care about.....

American soccer player Kyle Beckerman.

Don't look at us.....

R59 I’m confused. Who are Russ and LBJ? Are you talking about Russell Wilson and Odell Beckham Jr?

R61 He even said that he had to get really drunk to have sex with his girlfriend Shayana. That doesn't sound bi to me.

R66 Yes, Russell Wilson, but LBJ is LeBron James.

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I still laugh at the Odell and Drake playing house whispers.I know its not right,but Drake in those memes ....its funny.An its no help Odell likes popping that bussy as soon as he hears a beat

R62 Hmmm. No sign of any women on Arne Friedrich's insta.

Oscar de la Hoya

Carl Lewis!

Duh, r72!

Jim Palmer...Terry Bradshaw...Steve Young...Sandy Koufax...Troy Aikman...at least two dozen male figure skaters. Eric Lindros? Probably not, though it’s a nice thought.

Terry Bradshaw? Never heard that! He's gross and a freeper so I don't really want him on the team.

R71 Oscar De la Hoya is an autogynephile. Yes, years ago when he was first caught in ladies' lingerie and fuck me pumps it was assumed he was gay(just like that Knicks broadcaster from NYC who was also caught in lingerie.)

But many years later we have all learned about het men who are only sexually aroused by seeing themselves in the guise of a woman. They do not crave dick strangely enough...they still like the cooch, but like Bruce-Cait, they literally get off seeing themselves looking like women.

Verdict: Marv Albert and Oscar De la Hoya are hetero weirdos

Certain styles of women's underwear are very comfortable.

R76 I was going to say Oscar isnt 'gay'. But a AGP tranny. More common than you think.

De La Hoya has been with guys.....

All I'm sayin' R79 is that when Oscar is in Vegas, he hires teams of female escorts to dress him up and fuck him with dildoes.

While they surely dos not scream, "STRAIGHT!!" it does seem like if he were gay gay he would hire male escorts to service him.

My hypothesis: He was unsure of his orientation seeing as he was compelled to dress and have sex as a woman. So he experimented a lot. In the end, like Bruce-Cait he realized that he was in some sort of in between territory in that he likes the idea of dick, but oddly enough he likes dick AS A WOMAN, not as a gay man. It seems to be the #1 kink these days.

R80 'Meta attraction' They are turned on by being women. And being a woman to them is getting fucked. But take out being/pretending to be a woman, they arent attracted to men. Simultaneously complicated and nonsensical, but also makes perfect sense in a way.......and yes it is becoming more 'widely' acknowledged. Many have never talked about it before because they havent really understood it themselves; they clearly arent 'straight', but they arent even really bisexual in the way we think of it.

Well, as everyone knows Magic and Isiah were lovers for many years. Magic and he did an interview when they were playing and Magic said "This is my baby right here" and kissed him and Isiah smiled and blushed like a girlfriend.

Happens in first minute here.

I remember on TNT once years ago Barkley (who Bill Simmons reported likes to have a few drinks beers or otherwise during thursday double headers as Simmons saw when he did a piece on their inside the nba show once) seemed kind of tipsy and out of the blue looked at Kenny Smith and said "Kenny, ok, let me WASH YOUR BOOTY."

Kenny laughed and then realized what Charles had said and went "Huhhhhhhhhh?"

What do you think really happened between Kobe and Shaq?

"Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes?" was Shaq's bitchy diss at his ex. That was a literal thing Shaq said when he was on stage dissing Kome.

Magic son is flaming. Isiah has two gay sons as well.

The entire original Dream Team(Barcelona) seems to have borne a special strain of super gay children.

I know that sounds a bit flippant, but for real y'all, what are the odds of that happening? We are talking THE top hoops players of that era all have super gay kids.

That red headed light skinned black guy is always doing homo erotic type stuff..

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^ Hot!

Please let's remember Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penquins- the greatest ass since John Wetteland!

Olympic diver Steele Johnson although probably technically not an athlete

De la Hoya in Atlantic City Casino's getting plugged while on coke was a big rumor back in the day. One of the gurls even did a big story in a trash mag claiming he gave her 10 grand for the assistance

Any recent hockey rumors?

I wish Russell Wilson was gay, but he's straight and married. However, in the background of this picture, here's his great ass.

I see Russ in the background, but who is that in front? Earl Thomas? Cam Chandler?

I really only recognize Russ and former Seahawk Richard Sherman. Not a huge Seahawks fan but I adore Ciara and Russell.

At least one retired NFL Hall of Famer.....a guy who is elderly now but was once a pretty big name

Mike Piazza

Steele Johnson married a woman he can't be gay. No one who marries a woman could ever be gay. I don't even think Steele follows all of those gay people he used to follow on SM anymore.

R98, correct! No gay guy would even marry a woman!

Was it every found out who the big MLB player was the gay editor was having the affair with years ago? In his piece, people always assumed it was Piazza.

Also, Dave Palone said in his book he had two big affairs with players. Nobody has a clue.

6u665

Come on r96, Who?

All the good looking ones. Especially the good looking white ones.

Kerry Rhodes.

Give it a rest R103–your theory is false. FF’d. Enough.

r74 Lindros absolutely yes. He was in an LTR, allegedly of course, with his agent when he was younger. Also allegedly with Piazza when in NYC.

Sidney Crosby is just devoted to the game, r90, especially tweaking his workouts with his long time performance coach!

Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter rumors have been out there for years

Also I think Mychal Kendricks might be gay

This guy.

r106 Mychal Kendricks could GET IT

Ray Lewis, eh? I always wondered about his permanently smiling , cut off his locks best friend (they've known each other since they were youths) Rohan Marley, especially when he went with that white, Brazilian, serial wife supermodel Isabeli Fontana after he and Lauryn Hill broke up. I don't know, but his spirit does not scream straight" and he is the most "try hard" out of all the Marley children ( who seem intent on using his name until all things Marley turn to dust). I also wondered how both him and Ray Lewis ended up being friends with Mario Batali, who I don't think is straight, either. But at least we now know the provenance of Mr Lewis' violent streak. Christian Ronaldo is just trolling us now. Unless flaming from space a la 1970s-1990s New York "gay nightclubber", I never had a gaydar, until Our Ronny rocked up to Manchester United full of acne and VERY concerned about it. That and the "facial curation" that proceeded, that manifested a type of "shiny skin" that the average straight female would run away from.

Does the withered, horrible person David Beckham count? I don't think he has any orientation apart from " myself", but I don't doubt that he partakes of the penis when it occurs to him that he may want to find himself. Reaching here, but I'm sure he had a trial with Glasgow Rangers : Gordon Ramsay.

Richard Jefferson, former NBA player

Kyle lowry totally pings!

Dwight got married