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It Gets Better: SF Giants

Dan Savage
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Dang you, Dan Savage. I just saw your Google commercial on my recording of SNL and, again, it made my cry. You totes owe me a mascara.
Luckier on May 16, 2011 at 7:17 PM Report this
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Check the front page of the SF Chronicle website - it's the top story:
http://www.sfgate.com/
patrick66 on May 16, 2011 at 7:21 PM Report this
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OMG, they're like the best basketball team ever to score a touchdown!
seandr on May 16, 2011 at 7:21 PM Report this
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Jesus, I must be more gay than you, Dan. I have no earthly idea. Aren't they a basketball team? I find all of these sports very confusing. Except for soccer. Men or women playing. I like the part where they whip off their shirt at the end of the game. Men or women. Yum.

...Giants? Anyway, CONGRATS! GO IGBP! Subsume all the major sports teams!!
BEG on May 16, 2011 at 7:33 PM Report this
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That is indeed delightfully incredible!
raindrop on May 16, 2011 at 7:41 PM Report this
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Leading in their division at the moment, as well. Great team.
Cory on May 16, 2011 at 7:41 PM Report this
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C'mon I live in SF and had to endure the damn series whenever the hell it was but even I know about the lunatic foxes on the team.

Brian "fear the beard" Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4BO26nqP…

Tim "adorable stoner" Lynsecum
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story…

Buster "looks like a Mormon twink and that is his real first name" Posey
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Buster-Po…

patrick66 on May 16, 2011 at 7:44 PM Report this
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i don't know how to spell the stoners name

Tim Lincecum
patrick66 on May 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM Report this
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dan, the owner of the phoenix suns came out today.
scary tyler moore on May 16, 2011 at 7:47 PM Report this
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they are now.
Adrian Ryan on May 16, 2011 at 7:53 PM Report this
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Just so you know, Dan, @ 9 is talking about a basketball team. One in the NBA, same as the Sonics were.

That stoner pitcher lives in Belltown, is from Bellevue originally, and it wouldn't surprise me if he reads The Stranger.
Matt from Denver on May 16, 2011 at 7:53 PM Report this
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dan i will take a complete 180 and praise your name at every chance under 1 condition: kanye west comes out as at least bi and makes a video
Swearengen on May 16, 2011 at 7:54 PM Report this
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Between this and gloria allred simulating anal with a bat, gaybies'll be dropping faster than poor white trash's credit rating.

And the PRESIDENT (not owner) of the phoenix suns is almost sixty. Who gives a fuck...guy's almost dead, and spent the majority of his life in the closet, ashamed of himself and a staunch supporter of antigay politicians. Non event.
on May 16, 2011 at 7:55 PM Report this
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Will any active players be in the video?
DOUG. on May 16, 2011 at 8:10 PM Report this
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Well, you can't deny that Brian Wilson is a friend to the leather community...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrkSElfm7…
UNPAID COMMENTER on May 16, 2011 at 8:40 PM Report this
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Veni. Vidi. Vixi.
slomopomo on May 16, 2011 at 8:42 PM Report this
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Oh, God. All levity aside, I was thoroughly confused by "SF Giants."

Isn't that NY Giants?

Yeah. In football. Ooooookaaaay.
BEG on May 16, 2011 at 8:58 PM Report this
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Sometimes I am so proud to live in the Bay Area. Lately the Giants have been making me prouder.
nocutename on May 16, 2011 at 9:31 PM Report this
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Yay! That's my team makin' me proud. *sniff*. Cody Ross and Brian Wilson also did a kick ass fund raising video with Keenen Cahill for people with Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYZ3LHHE…
bassplayerguy on May 16, 2011 at 9:40 PM Report this
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The Giants are a team of misfits and castaways from other teams, so they're perfect ambassadors for your message, as well as being defending World Series champions. Good for them, and for you!
Gern Blanston on May 16, 2011 at 9:41 PM Report this
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Big high five to Sean Chapin. I get goose bumps everytime I hear an IGBP promotion.

Dan, you and others could make it better for everyone by giving someone 2 minutes of your time.
despicable me on May 16, 2011 at 9:44 PM Report this
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The San Diego Padres (also a baseball team) occasionally do a silly promo/theme night that's basically a pitch to their town's huge military contingent and have them wear these dorky camouflage print uniforms. And so I've long been hoping SanFran would also make a play to their base and do a full leather uni, complete with the old school, studded, motorcycle hat. May be a few years down the road.

Hopefully all the other teams/sports follow SF's lead and do a video. Nice way to target a segment of the population that's not gonna be as readily exposed to these types of messages.
mikethehammer on May 16, 2011 at 9:55 PM Report this
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You know we're making progress when a highly public figure comes out and nobody gives a shit: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/living/…
Terry Nguyen on May 16, 2011 at 10:02 PM Report this
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Fuck yeah.
OuterCow on May 16, 2011 at 10:17 PM Report this
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It should be noted that the Giants have been doing gay singles nights for a while too.
bassplayerguy on May 16, 2011 at 10:18 PM Report this
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Wow! Two words: sea change
jackseattle on May 16, 2011 at 10:20 PM Report this
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They're the current World Series of Baseball champions of the whole world, if by the whole world you mean the USA & Canada.
Camembert on May 16, 2011 at 10:47 PM Report this
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@23, true - this HAS to finally give Anderson Cooper the mojo to make his public coming out. Lemon's a public figure, but Coop's a highly public figure... I wonder if the publicity angle is what finally will do it. After all, Lemon timed his move because has an autobiography to sell, and maybe since Cooper has a syndicated afternoon chat show debuting soon that will be his final push.
gloomy gus on May 16, 2011 at 10:55 PM Report this
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Japan and australia have leagues too. "world series" is a misnomer.
razorclammer on May 16, 2011 at 11:17 PM Report this
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"after a slew of LGBT suicides across the nation..."

A 'slew'?

That's terrible.

How many teen homosexual suicides were occurring a month before IGB?

How many currently?
on May 16, 2011 at 11:31 PM Report this
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@17 My first thought was also the New York Giants. I've been waiting for Eli Manning to fucking grow a pair for so long...
Jennifer in Chicago on May 17, 2011 at 5:44 AM Report this
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Not to rain on your parade, but ever-intelligent Scott Walker in Wisconsin is now looking to ban hospital visitations by same-sex couples.
Drew2u on May 17, 2011 at 5:49 AM Report this
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Do any of you know why it is called the World Series? I didn't think so. And why do the best players come here from Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Canada, japan, and unfortunately, Australia. The world's best players come here to play baseball.
fourfingersdown on May 17, 2011 at 7:45 AM Report this
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@33, yeah but that's probably because we're one of the few countries that a) play baseball b) watch baseball. Baseball just isn't very popular anywhere in the world except for the US, Canada and possibly Japan.
tazzo on May 17, 2011 at 11:04 AM Report this
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@34
The Dominican Republic, Cuba, Korea, Chinese Tapei, Australia etc. might argue with that comment. Baseball is actually a fairly international game these days. In the last 5 Olympics, the US has just 1 gold and 2 bronze. Cuba has 3 gold, 2 silver. While our best players don't play, it still says something.

@33
I'd say it's pretty much the World Series because it was named that in the late 1800s and at that point, rich white American baseball team owning men gave even less of a shit about the rest of the world than they do now.

Frank Rizzo on May 17, 2011 at 11:26 AM Report this
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The first time I ever went to a Giants game, the national anthem was performed on the field by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. They got great billing, too: a day game on a summer Saturday with thousands of families present. The Giants have been a progressive organization for a while.
on May 17, 2011 at 11:51 AM Report this
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@ 35 is correct. Baseball, basketball, and hockey are all internationally popular sports, but each is popular only with a few nations, which is why the US continues to be the only place with a truly premiere league in each sport, and the place that attracts the best players those nations have to offer.
Matt from Denver on May 17, 2011 at 11:53 AM Report this
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I'm sitting at home on a rare day off, watching the Giants game and reading Slog. Very happy to hear that our world champion band of misfits will be making a video for the IGBP. Our guys are just the ones to do it, and I will be very surprised if current players aren't in the video. Go Giants!
Laurie in SF on May 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM Report this
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Dan, I'm very, very, very, very gay, and I know the Giants are the reigning world champs. And they have a pitcher who's one of the most adorable athletes in all of sports: Tim Lincecum. He's just your type, Dan: trim bod, shaggy hair. Really dude, get into sports, it's OK, you won't start ordering Terry to get you a beer, I promise.

Chris in Vancouver WA on May 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM Report this

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