Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman made an appearance at a Pride parade in Houston on Sunday and applauded the negative comments he received on Instagram.
Rodman posted a photo of himself on Instagram greeting parade goers while wearing a green skirt and a hat with a smiley face along with sunglasses on his face.
«Love will always win,» he wrote on Instagram. «Happy Pride».
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Dennis Rodman attends the 2022 Revolt Summit at 787 Windsor on September 24, 2022 in Atlanta. (Prince Williams/Wire Image)
However, Rodman received several negative comments on the post, and as the comments piled up, he posted a message to his Instagram Stories addressing the haters.
«Investigate guys,» he wrote, «#beenhim.»
His words were posted on top of a collage that featured various images of Rodman during the prime of his NBA career in a wedding dress and other outfits that were considered controversial at the time.
In 2019, Rodman spoke to Business Insider about attitudes toward LGBTQ athletes in sports, as some professional players began coming out as gay. Rodman estimated at the time that around 10-20% of professional athletes were part of the LGBTQ community.
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Former NBA player Dennis Rodman trains during the 2023 NFL Pro Bowl Weekend Celebrity All-Star Game to benefit the D Up On Cancer charity at Cox Pavilion on February 4, 2023 in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
She also talked about the 1995 Sports Illustrated cover in which she posed in drag. He said that she received a lot of compliments from the gay community.
«They were unaware of the fact that when [they] I shot that cover for Sports Illustrated that that was the best-selling Sports Illustrated of all time,» Rodman said. «And then the gay community started reaching out to me and said, ‘Wow, we never knew our community could be represented like that on sports. And people didn’t know at the time that he was doing that.»
He added that he never thought it was a big deal.
«I was, you know, in all the drag clubs, I was dressing in drag. I was dressing in women’s clothes. I was doing lingerie and stuff like that and people in the gay community started hugging me,» she said.
Chicago Bulls power forward Dennis Rodman addresses the crowd during a celebration of the Chicago Bulls’ sixth NBA championship at the Petrillo Music Shell in Chicago in June 1998. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
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«If you’re gay. I don’t give a fuck.»