But I also think there are a lot of players in the WNBA that would love to come out, but for lots of reasons they're scared.
But I hope [my coming-out] is gonna make a difference to a lot of people out there who want to come out and don't know how to do it or are afraid, "If I do this, what will the consequences be?
She is our champion: she has logged every superlative in the basketball record books. Now WNBA Houston Comets superstar Sheryl Swoopes makes history again, by coming out about her happy family life with her long-term lesbian love--and signing with Olivia. And she's only just begun
In the first chapter of Revelation, God says, "I am the Alpha and the Omega--the one who is and who was and who is
to come." The book emphasizes the intervention of God into human affairs and the picture of the last days.
Apocalypse now
But Bean, who calls his book "an explanation of why [pro athletes] have not been able
to come out," says the closet is an unfortunate necessity in major league baseball today.
Billy Bean's pitch: four years after coming out the ex-major leaguer faces a quandary: should he now push other pro athletes to do the same? (Pride 2003)(Cover Story)
We've had a tremendous response to our invitation
to come out--or
to come further out--in the pages of The Advocate, and we plan to make this a new tradition for the magazine.
Coming out in The Advocate: a new tradition: if we call our struggle the gay rights movement, maybe it's because it all begins when someone steps forward
Why must the gay public suffer yet another celebrity who chooses
to come out only after finding himself in a position of pseudo privilege and notoriety--i.e., when it's safe?
Leading man. (reader forum)
"Every one of our members across the country is experiencing a drop in the age at which young people really start
to come out and talk about sexuality and gender identity in a public way," says Craig Bowman, executive director of National Youth Advocacy Coalition, an umbrella organization for gay and lesbian youth groups.
Coming out early
He's coming of age at a time when the public is beginning to honor those with the courage
to come out and mistrust those who don't.
ELTON JOHN & RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
She said, "I could never go to such a public place where there would be TV cameras and all these gay people would see me and think I was gay." I said I understood, but I was lying, and that was one of the reasons I decided
to come out I couldn't live like that, always looking over my shoulder.
Readerforum
"I think it's important for people
to come out, though it should not be de rigueur," he states.
A LIFE ON THE EDGE
I can just imagine a teenage homosexual watching the show with his parents and using that as a springboard
to come out.
THE 1990S DEFINING MOMENTS OF THE DECADE
A veteran of antiwar protests, Kight is inspired
to come out by the Stonewall uprising.
Take a Wilde RIDE
* In a series about homosexuality in sports that runs in the Washington Star, former NFL running back David Kopay becomes the first professional athlete
to come out.
Gay athletes through history
"The best candidate
to come out would be someone very comfortable with herself," she says.
Muffin Spencer-Devlin
We need to capitalize on this moment in time
to come out to family, friends, and coworkers.
Athletes of the Gay Games