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Puerto Rico: Prejudice Between the Lines

Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rico (U.S.), LGBTQ+, Media & Journalism, Sport

Félix Jiménez denounces [1] in a short note in the digital magazine 80grados the prejudice that is revealed between the lines in the sports sections of the country's main newspapers when covering Orlando Cruz [2], the Puerto Rican boxer that recently came out as openly gay. Jiménez says:

To review articles supposedly supporting Cruz is to find just how weak that alleged solidarity really is, the poorly convincing “acceptance” of Cruz […] and the resistance to write about Cruz the same way other boxers are written about.