‘It’s a little bit Brokeback Mountain’: TV commentators accused over gay skating jibes
A pair of Australian TV sports commentators are in hot water after making allegedly homophobic remarks about male ice skaters at the Winter Olympics.
Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy’s comments include describing routines as ‘Brokeback Mountain’ exercises and even joked about organisers being shocked at discovering one skater was not gay.
They then added the non-gay skater was unlikely to be controversial and flamboyant U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir - because he wore a black and pink outfit while holding a heart-shaped cushion.
(Full story DailyMail.co.uk)
Posted by Rob Coe on February 19th, 2010 at 5:39pm
