NBA star Stephen Curry on Thursday
spoke out against North Carolina's law that targets the LGBT
community.
Curry, who grew up in Charlotte, was
asked by the AP to weigh in after major sporting events pulled out of
his home state over House Bill 2.
The law, approved by GOP lawmakers
during a one-day special session in March, blocks cities and
municipalities from enacting measures that prohibit discrimination
against the LGBT community. It has also been dubbed the “bathroom
bill” over its controversial requirement that transgender people
cannot use the bathroom of their choice in government buildings,
including schools.
This week, the NCAA and the Atlantic
Coast Conference (ACC) announced that they were relocating several
major sporting events over the law. The NBA earlier this year moved
its All-Star Game from Charlotte to New Orleans. Charlotte has also
lost the ACC's conference championship football game.
“I think it's unfortunate for our
city and our state to be under the microscope with [House Bill 2] and
how it's unfolded,” Curry, the star point guard for the Golden
State Warriors, told the AP. “I'm all for equal and fair rights
and treatment of everybody. Until it gets addressed, until some
changes are made, this could be a recurring theme in North Carolina.
I don't want that [to] happen.”
“The All-Star Game has been moved,
the NCAA tournament, things that would bring so much joy and support
to the city, mainstay events. But I think it's a conversation that
will continue until changes are made. I don't have any answers as to
how that will happen, but hopefully it happens sooner rather than
later,” Curry
added.