Swoopes Scores One for the Other Team
It's about damn time someone did it. Not surprisingly, a woman was the first superstar athlete to come out. There isn't the same stigma attached to lesbians as there is attached to gay men. It'll be a cold day in hell before an NBA MVP (and not a three-time WNBA MVP) comes out of the closet. Maybe Sheryl Swoopes just has bigger cajones.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"Male athletes of my caliber probably feel like they have a lot more to lose than gain [by coming out]. I don't agree with that. To me, the most important thing is happiness."
-Sheryl Swoopes, in "ESPN: The Magazine"
It's about damn time someone did it. Not surprisingly, a woman was the first superstar athlete to come out. There isn't the same stigma attached to lesbians as there is attached to gay men. It'll be a cold day in hell before an NBA MVP (and not a three-time WNBA MVP) comes out of the closet. Maybe Sheryl Swoopes just has bigger cajones.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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