{"id":41851,"date":"2017-04-19T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=41851"},"modified":"2017-04-19T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:30:18","slug":"educates-activates-athletes-advocate-lgbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w41851\/educates-activates-athletes-advocate-lgbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NCAA wrestler educates and activates athletes to advocate for LGBT individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hudson<\/a>Hudson Taylor is an All-American wrestler, one of the top five pinners in the history of NCAA wrestling and an ally for members of the LGBT community. He encouraged individuals at Camp Randall in Wisconsin\u00a0to support LGBT individuals along with him, as he does regularly through his nonprofit organization, Athlete Ally.<\/p>\n

The organization aims to end homophobia, transphobia and sexism in the athletic community. Taylor\u2019s credibility in this athletic context is supported by his past achievements, as well as his past as a wrestling coach at Columbia University in New York City.<\/p>\n

Taylor said his allyhood for LGBT individuals\u2019 causes was first given attention from the media, and backlash from his peers, when he began to wear a Human Rights Campaign equality sticker on his wrestling headgear.<\/p>\n

He discussed the seemingly harmless yet abusive language commonly seen in sports communities, as well as the importance of athletic inclusion and acceptance of LGBT people.<\/p>\n

Taylor explained what it means to be a responsible advocate for LGBT people.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaving or changing someone\u2019s life, being a better ally or advocate, it doesn\u2019t take a year, a week, or a day,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cIt often times just takes two seconds \u2026 the two seconds when you\u2019re about to say something that you probably shouldn\u2019t or when you choose not to speak out against hate and exclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor said he utilizes his decades of experience within the athletic world as fuel for his fight for equality. His understanding of the types of discrimination that occur in sports culture has allowed him to directly connect with student athletes in collegiate and professional levels across the country.<\/p>\n

Athlete Ally uses Campus Ambassadors, volunteer athletes, coaches and administrators to lead college and high school initiatives to uphold the principles of inclusion and respect in the athletic communities.<\/p>\n

Throughout his talk, Taylor stressed Athlete Ally\u2019s main purpose: \u201cto educate and activate people in sports to start changing dialogues, policies, and common practices in order to be more accepting to those who identify as LGBT.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Matthew Whitney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hudson Taylor is an All-American wrestler, one of the top five pinners in the history of NCAA wrestling and an ally for members of the LGBT community. He encouraged individuals at Camp Randall in Wisconsin\u00a0to support LGBT individuals along with him, as he does regularly through his nonprofit organization, Athlete Ally. The organization aims to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Hudson_Taylor.jpg?fit=460%2C470&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-aT1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}