Golden State Warriors NBA team host LGBT charity night
Thursday marked the first time the Golden State Warriors basketball team hosted an LGBT night - adding the gay community to its long roster of diversity-themed games that include everything from Bollywood dancing on Indian culture night to horn-blowing rabbis on Jewish heritage night.
Just before the start of Thursday’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers, the Oakland-East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus stood at halfcourt in tuxedos and sang the national anthem.
At halftime, the world’s only gay-identified cheerleading team, Cheer SF, gave a high-octane performance, tossing male and female fliers into the air.
Although this is not the first time an NBA team has held a gay night, many gay fans said it was especially poignant that the Warriors reached out, given former player Tim Hardaway’s notorious “I hate gay people” comment in February 2007, for which he later apologized.
(Full story: San Francisco Chronicle)
