(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments: Selling Out Your Community: LGBTQ+ Edition [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-04 The blog Outsports, a part of SB Nation, covers LGBTQ+ issues in sports. The editor of the blog is Cyd Zeigler. He and the rest of the crew do an excellent job of promoting equality in sports. They cover many of the stories about trans women being banned from competing at all levels of sports. The blog also provides an outlet for LGBTQ+ athletes to come out most notably Carl Nassib of the NFL. They regularly call out and expose the homophobic members of the sports like former NFL player and coach Tony Dungy. Mr. Zeigler has been especially out in front of the controversy surrounding the Pride Nights in the NHL where some player have refused to wear specially designed jerseys for warm-ups. While most of the players refusing to wear the jerseys have cited their religion not allowing them to support “the lifestyle choice”, a couple of Russian players have cited a law signed by Putin last year allowing for retribution for supporting homosexuality and queer people. Some teams went as far to cancel wearing the warm up jerseys at the 11th hour usually citing the narrative the fear Russian players and their families have due to the law. This always seemed like a dubious excuse considering the fact that a number of Russian players had no problems wearing the jerseys on other teams plus there was no controversy when teams held “Support for Ukraine” nights. Eventually, the deputy commissioner of the NHL gave an interview where he stated unequivocally that they knew of no credible threats to any of their Russian players or their families coming out of Russia finally dispelling the validity of this excuse. The point of this diary is based upon a couple of tweets Mr. Zeigler posted last week in the wake of Trump being indicted by the grand jury in New York County (Manhattan). Apparantly, Mr Zeigler has decided to leave the Democratic PArty and register as a Republican due to the politicization of the justice system by indicting Trump since the federal government didn’t. See below: x I don't like Donald Trump. And this is the moment I completely abandoned the Democratic Party at every level. This politically motivated insanity - rejected by the Feds themselves - goes so far beyond anything I've seen in my lifetime.#IHatePolitics #StopAuthoritarianism — Cyd Zeigler (@CydZeigler) March 30, 2023 x I just registered as a Republican for the first time in 20 years. This completely insane butchering of Democracy and our justice system cannot stand. Progressives and Democrats seeking to use the government to attack political foes must be stopped. Period. — Cyd Zeigler (@CydZeigler) March 30, 2023 Mr. Zeigler had also tweeted in support of Ron DeathSentence asking people to donate to him because Democrats were being mean: (Tweet has been deleted but here is one response to the now deleted tweet): x Cyd Ziegler is one of the cofounders of the largest LGBT sports publication, Outsports. And he’s stumping for Ron DeSantis, the guy who calls gender affirming care “mutilation” and banned it for trans youth. A reminder that some cis gay men are not automatically trans allies. https://t.co/9CERAfTHGw — Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) March 31, 2023 Mr. Zeigler also retweeted supportive tweets from former Trump acting DNI, Richard Grenell. Definitely the kinds of people someone professing support for the LGBTQ+ community should be elevating. The Advocate did capture this tweet of Mr. Zeigler thanking Florida Man for supporting The Indicted One by offering to violate the Constitution to not allow for Trump’s extradition should it be necessary. TOP PICTURES April 3, 2023 Click any picture to be taken to the full comment or picture. Thank you to the wonderful dKos staff who made it possible to continue this feature in memory of jotter! Any missing images were not allowed to be included in the quilt. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2023/4/4/2157972/-Top-Comments-Selling-Out-Your-Community-LGBTQ-Edition Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/