Hero of the week: Baseball’s Brandon McCarthy!

We have heard way too much lately about professional athletes using gay slurs then only being sorry for it under threat of suspension or a fine – or immense public pressure.

That is what makes this story about Oakland A’s picture Brandon McCarthy so noteworthy.

The 28-year-old took to Twitter this week to express his dismay at the stadium’s ‘kiss cam’ trying to get two presumably straight guys sitting next to each other to smooch – for laughs.

‘They put two guys on the ‘Kiss Cam’ tonight. What hilarity!! (By hilarity I mean offensive homophobia). Enough with this stupid trend.’

When plenty of his nearly 30,000 Twitter followers disagreed with him, McCarthy did not back down explaining: ‘The implication is that two guys kissing is funny. That’s offensive to gay males.’

Homophobia aside, McCarthy had one more point to make about the ‘Kiss Cam’ practice: ‘It’s cheap, sh*tty comedy so it sucks at that level as well.’

Seriously, if more athletes had the courage to speak out like this, there would be far less homophobia in sports.

In his own way, McCarthy is helping to change the world for the better.

Kudos!