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Life
This gay super fan is winning tennis one fantastic podcast at a time
With the U.S. Open heading into the home stretch, Jon Guerrica might be the busiest man in tennis.
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News (World)
Out tennis legend Billie Jean King receives France’s Legion of Honor award
The tennis legend was honored with France’s highest medal.
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Life
Barbie has released its first-ever transgender doll, styled after iconic actress Laverne Cox
Cox said she felt so grateful to be able to give her younger self something she was denied as a child.
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News (World)
Billie Jean King’s ex-husband will no longer get credit for her 6 Wimbledon singles wins
“Terrific to see Wimbledon making this important change.”
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Life
Out World Series-winning baseball executive announces his engagement
Los Angeles Dodgers VP Erik Braverman popped the question to his engineer-model-photographer boyfriend Jonathan Cottrell in Las Vegas. Cottrell happily said yes.
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Life
Billie Jean King reveals she’s gotten married in private after hesitating for years
“Years from now, I never want anyone to question how much I was committed to you,” King said about her life-long partner Ilana Kloss, she reveals in her upcoming memoir.
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News (World)
Japanese politicians refuse to pass LGBTQ rights bill as Olympics approach
One politician said that LGBTQ rights threaten “the preservation of the human race” as advocates push for protections before the Olympics.
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Commentary
Republicans are discovering that sports is a political game
Some of sports most memorable moments pushed a progressive social agenda and influenced the nation.
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Life
Multiple ads including LGBTQ people will air during the Super Bowl
And viewers may find LGBTQ entertainers star before and after the big game, too.
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News (USA)
Megan Rapinoe, Billie Jean King & 174 female athletes sign brief supporting trans women in sports
“Every young person, and especially youth who are transgender, or intersex, should be able to participate fully in sport.”
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News (World)
Will the UK kick Brunei out of the Commonwealth as pressure builds over gay stoning law?
People all over the world are taking action against Brunei over its gay stoning law.
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News (USA)
Gay Olympian slams choice of Pence to lead US delegation & says he won’t meet him
“Mike Pence doesn’t stand for anything that I really believe in.”
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Life
Billie Jean King: Caitlyn Jenner helps transgender visibility, acceptance
Billie Jean King believes Caitlyn Jenner has given people clarity about transgender issues beyond the progress already seen four decades after they shared the international spotlight as athletes.
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Life
Billie Jean King talks tennis, LGBT athletes, keys to a successful career
NEW YORK — Billie Jean King is so busy attending events during the U.S. Open, she hardly has time to watch matches at the venue that bears her name. However, King still has plenty of opinions on tennis and other topics. She believes Serena Williams can win “tons” more Grand Slam titles and Michael Sam “made history” despite not making the roster of an NFL team.
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Life
Billie Jean King talks Sochi Olympics, LGBT rights, openly gay athletes
Billie Jean King’s taxi ride home after the Sochi Olympics included a revelation. She had just returned from a whirlwind three days at the Sochi Games, part of the U.S. delegation for the closing ceremony chosen by President Barack Obama. She watched the gold-medal men’s hockey game won by Canada, went up the mountain for bobsled, greeted U.S. athletes and met a Russian gay teenager…
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Life
Billie Jean King to attend Olympics’ closing ceremony in Sochi
WASHINGTON — Billie Jean King will attend the closing ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in Russia as part of President Barack Obama’s official U.S. delegation.
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Life
Billie Jean King won’t attend Sochi opening due to family illness
NEW YORK — Billie Jean King will not attend Friday’s opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in Russia because her mother is ill.
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Life
Billie Jean King part of diplomacy by diversity: ‘We reflect part of America’
Billie Jean King believes standing up to discrimination is the best way to combat it, so she had no hesitation joining the U.S. delegation for the Sochi Olympics.
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Life
Obama to skip Olympic games, selects gay athletes for Sochi delegation
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent Russia a clear message about its treatment of gays and lesbians with who he is – and isn’t – sending to represent the United States at the Sochi Olympics.
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Life
Billie Jean King reflects on being a gay, professional athlete in the 1970s
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Billie Jean King said Tuesday that she couldn’t have revealed herself as being gay in the 1970s because it would have damaged the fledgling women’s professional tennis tour.