Polar Magazine profiles Gay Games Ambassador John Amaechi, patron of UK LGBT History Month:
It’s hardly a surprise that with the Olympics looming (161 days and counting, if the clock hasn’t stopped… again) the focus of this year’s LGBT History Month is sport. Sport is one of the final frontiers of LGBT equality. The BBC documentary Britain’s Gay Footballers evidenced that there is still a lot of progress to be made despite the recent flurry of gay sportsmen coming out of the closet. This year, at the launch of LGBT History Month, John Amaechi was named, alongside former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas, as one of the patrons of LGBT History Month.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Polar Magazine profiles Gay Games Ambassador John Amaechi, patron of UK LGBT History Month
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