Dana White has always been “cool” with gay fighters who compete in UFC.
That said, don’t expect the promotion to host any “Pride Night” events, like the one that caused an avalanche of controversy for baseball’s San Francisco Giants.
White prefers to stay in his own lane and let everyone do their own thing.
“I’m staring at my roster of Top 15 fighters, I’m assuming we have some gay fighters,” White told Tomi Lahren. “I don’t know how many of them are openly. I know that we have gay female fighters.
I don’t give a shit. I don’t care what you are or who you are or what you do, we don’t talk about that or any of that stuff. We have a T-shirt that says ‘We Are All Fighters,’ and it’s got the gay flag colors on it, but I don’t know, everybody do your own thing. I’m just not into it. I’m in the fight business, so it’s a little different than baseball is like America’s game. I stay in my lane, whatever all these other guys are doing, good luck to you. I do my own thing.”
White also used the interview to reiterate his disgust for the public personas of Josh Hokit and Sean Strickland, who make it a habit of using White’s “free speech” policy to make spectacles of themselves. I guess White doesn’t remember the time he said Cris Cyborg looked like Wanderlei Silva in a dress.
He also didn’t seem to mind when Joe Rogan accused Cyborg of having a dick.
“We donate lots of money to lots of different charities and I do personally, too,” White said. “You know what you’ll never see me doing? Standing out in the middle of somewhere with a big check with a bunch of little kids standing around. We do it because we should, we do it because we can, we don’t do it for attention and we don’t do it for any other reason other than we should. Whether it’s the gay and lesbian community, whether it’s the African American community, we do what we should do. We do the right thing, and as long as you’re doing the right thing, you don’t have to run around and prove to everybody that you’re doing the right thing.”
UFC always does the right thing, you just have to hold them at gunpoint.
