Next month Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley Jr. are scheduled to meet in a Pay-Per-View bout. We have an obligation to both fighters and, therefore, will proceed to produce and distribute that event. However, we felt it important to leave no uncertainty about our position on Mr. Pacquiao’s recent comments toward the LGBTQ community. We consider them insensitive, offensive and deplorable. HBO has been a proud home to many LGBTQ stories and couldn’t approach this event without clearly voicing our opinion.”An official statement released to the media by HBO in response to the continued antigay rhetoric spewed by boxer Manny Pacquiao ahead of the April 9 telecastin quotes
Manny Pacquiao’s Offensive Antigay Comments Condemned By HBO Which Will Still Broadcast His Fight
Next month Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley Jr. are scheduled to meet in a Pay-Per-View bout. We have an obligation to both fighters and, therefore, will proceed to produce and distribute that event. However, we felt it important to leave no uncertainty about our position on Mr. Pacquiao’s recent comments toward the LGBTQ community. We consider them insensitive, offensive and deplorable. HBO has been a proud home to many LGBTQ stories and couldn’t approach this event without clearly voicing our opinion.”An official statement released to the media by HBO in response to the continued antigay rhetoric spewed by boxer Manny Pacquiao ahead of the April 9 telecastHelp make sure LGBTQ+ stories are being told...
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Achmat Akkad
So it’s problematic when straight folks make homophobic statements but when gay individuals like Michael Lucas make anti Black, anti Muslim, and anti Palestinian comments the LGBT community could care. less.
Dee Stephens
It’s all about money
scotty
this person is now a non entity and should be treated as such.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
He is as ugly on the inside as the outside…………….
Stache
@Achmat Akkad:Not sure what that has to do with this. I don’t think that many are endorsing Michael Lucas and his views.
Creamsicle
@Achmat Akkad: I don’t think anyone gives a fuck what Michael Lucas thinks. He’s a porn performer and director and it’s not surprising that he’s disconnected from reality.
potus8
Girls, girls…this is about Manny; not this other guy. Now, onto the SUBJECT: I fully nderstand tha HBO has a contract to b’cast. However, GLAAD & HRC and subscribers need to demand HBO state that they will NOT carry or contract any future programming with this small-minded, hatred-filled little man.
Harley
Here’s hoping he gets the ever loving shît beat out of him and his face is permanently altered.
Brian
Follow the money trail. HBO knows where the money is.
Brian JC Kneeland
too bad – cancel his fight on your station and hit him where it hurts!
Christopher Hayward
He is a hateful man of no value to humanity.
JessPH
It’s the ugly midget’s last fight. HBO couldn’t care less about him anymore after that.
DCguy
@Achmat Akkad: I’m curious, by “Anti-Palestinian” do you mean anti the country where being gay is not only illegal and punishable by a 10 year prison sentence, but a country where the murder of gays in prison or by families goes unpunished because of acceptance by the govt. that it is ok?
Remind me again why LGBT’s should defend a nation that has their destruction written into it’s legal code.
DCguy
Oh, and as for HBO, just shut up. If you’re still running it, then any commentary is irrelevant.
Kieran
The last “fight” Manny had on HBO was a real snoozefest. I won’t be fooled again.
Paco
Yeah we know. It’s about the money, HBO. We are smart enough, most of us anyway, to know that corporations are about profit before anything else. So just put your money where your mouth is and make a sizable donation to a GLBT organization from the profits of the fight.
Oh and quit teasing me about the fate of Jon Snow. That is just mean.
Bob LaBlah
Considering how neither he, Floyd Mayweather and a slew of other antigay ranting boxers and MMA fighters don’t even have GED’s what else is/was to be expected? This is why in certain cases I sit back and enjoy watching them literally try to knock each others brains out.
DCguy
@Bob LaBlah:
Ok Bob, now that was funny. lol