A controversial social media submit from Geelong star Bailey Smith has drawn the ire of Mitch Brown, who has known as it homophobic.
Brown, the primary AFL participant to publicly reveal he’s bisexual, was unimpressed after Smith made a sequence of Instagram posts from the Cats’ Mad Monday operate.
One of many posts featured Smith and captain Patrick Dangerfield hugging, with Smith referencing Brokeback Mountain in a caption.
Bailey Smith and Patrick Dangerfield pose throughout Geelong’s Mad Monday celebrations. (Instagram)
Smith had dressed as Brad Pitt within the film Legends of the Fall, whereas Dangerfield had dressed as a cowboy from the TV present Yellowstone. There isn’t any suggestion the gamers got here to the occasion dressed as Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal’s characters from Brokeback Mountain.
“Or brokeback mountain relies upon how ya have a look at it,” Smith posted on the picture of him with Dangerfield.
Smith added that he was placing away his cellphone, earlier than two extra posts, after which including that Dangerfield was confiscating his cellphone for the remainder of the day.
Smith additionally needed to verify with Dangerfield at one level to ask who he was dressed as, including that he had by no means seen the 1994 western drama.
Brown first revealed an image of deceased Australian actor Heath Ledger, who performed one of many lead characters within the film.
“Only for the document, Heath Ledger’s means hotter,” Brown joked.
However then Brown added in a separate submit: “In all seriousness although, guys do higher.
Cillian Burke, Mark Blicavs and Mark O’Connor dressed as controversial band Kneecap. (Krock Soccer)
“Final time I checked, shedding a grand ultimate does not make you homosexual, however being homophobic undoubtedly makes you a loser.”
Smith additionally courted controversy by commenting on Max Holmes’s costume.
Holmes — who has beforehand attended Mad Monday celebrations as journalists Mitch Cleary and Gerard Whateley — this time got here as footy journalist Caroline Wilson, with Smith commenting that Wilson “had by no means regarded higher”.
Mark Blicavs and Irish teammates Mark O’Connor and Cillian Burke additionally raised eyebrows by attending the celebrations as controversial Irish band Kneecap.
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