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SHERYL SWOOP’ OUT AS NSGAA (NOT SO GAY AFTER ALL)
If I’m really hont about , I thk I was cut om the ‘92 team bee I was gay. Bee I thk there were mors about me, and one of the ach was close to a ach who was very, very anti-gay. While we don’t see the same level of explic homophobia the WNBA today, to what extent is the culture change thanks to the sacrific and work of veterans like Azzi and Sheryl Swoop?
“I thk what the NBA was dog was sayg, we know that we’re already gonna have the gay and lbian muny to e out and support. I had no ia she was gay. “We have a great thg gog right now, and if I do e out and say, ‘hey, I’m gay, I’m a lbian’ – How would Nike feel?
In the years sce then, the culture has changed dramatilly, now one of the most pro-gay spac the world of profsnal sports. Azzi didn’t e out until 2016, 20 years removed om the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ethos of 1996, havg taken spiratn om Goln State Warrrs CEO Rick Welts, the first proment US sports executive to e out as openly gay. “Oh big shocker, a woman the WNBA is gay.