
Greg Kelly, an anchor on the right-wing Newsmax media outlet, said he will not watch the NFL Super Bowl game this Sunday, and that the game’s logo looks “a little bit LGBT queer-ish” to him.
“The colors, a little bit. I’m sorry. I think it is,” Kelly said in a Thursday broadcast, according to Media Matters. “And that’s whatever. I think it has nothing to do with football. Straight, gay, whatever. Why is that, kind of, in big ways, explicit ways and subliminal ways, it always seems to be a thing?”
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Kelly — who has accused drag queens of harming his constitutional rights — then complained about Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican LGBTQ+ ally, performing at the Super Bowl halftime show. The anti-LGBTQ+ conservative organization Turning Point USA is broadcasting an all-white country rock halftime show as an alternative.
Right-wingers have long claimed that the Super Bowl, its halftime show, and TV ads indoctrinate viewers with subliminal “satanic” and LGBTQ+ content. Our sibling site, Outsports, noted that Super Bowl LX will feature several different LGBTQ-friendly players and coaches from the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots.