From Gay Star News:
Martina Navratilova, the world’s greatest ever female tennis star has told Gay Star News that closeted gay athletes should come out.
The lesbian multiple-Grand Slam champion says LGBT athletes who are not open are just ‘too paranoid’, in an interview released by GSN today (27 July) to mark the official start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
There are only a handful of openly LGBT people competing in the Olympics this summer – far less than 1% and sport is often cited as being institutionally homophobic.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Martina Navratilova encourages athletes to come out
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