Gay Mayor of North Miami invites Tim HARDaway to spend a day with his family

Gay mayor to Tim Hardaway: spend a day with my family
Published by Pam Spaulding February 18th, 2007 in Media, GLBT, Sports

Tim “I hate gay people” Hardaway has accepted an open-hearted bold offer from North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns — the official has invited the radioactive former NBA star to spend a routine day with him. (Miami Herald):

‘’We’re just trying to show him that there are living, breathing people that just happen to be gay,'’ said North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns, who lives with his partner of 23 years and an adopted daughter.

The plan is for Hardaway to join Burns and his family for a routine weekday at the mayor’s office and home — doing things like dropping off Burns’ child at school, meeting with constituents and dinner with the family.

Hardaway has been hit hard since the broadcast on the local AM radio station 790 The Ticket, in which he said, ‘’I don’t like to be around gay people'’ and `”it shouldn’t be in the U.S. or the world.'’
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16719271.htm


Will it do anything to open Hardaway’s eyes? I’m not sure anyone with such a hard heart — and blunt honesty about his feelings about gays — is sincerely ready for change. But this humanization and reality check that gay people are simply everyday people cannot hurt.

What do you think?

More:
http://pandagon.net/2007/02/18/gay-mayor-to-tim-hardaway-spend-a-day-with-my-family/


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And if Hardaway publicly recants, he could open the door for many other closet homophobes.

He even said that he is a homophobe in THE interview.

This is not to say that this particular bigot is closeted, but it is one of two possibilities.

1) Bigoted hateful miscreant
OR
2) Closeted self-loathing miscreant

it makes his family look wise and forgiving and charitable. And if the homophobe changes his stripes publicly as a result of this (whether sincere or not), it will have good cultural ramifications.

It's smart because it makes the gay family look like the one with the solid values here.