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Contents:
- 23 OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN ATHLET AT 2012 LONDON SUMMER OLYMPICS
- NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP OUT AS GAY, A FIRST FOR THE LEAGUE
- HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
- LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY
23 OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN ATHLET AT 2012 LONDON SUMMER OLYMPICS
Prokop, who was drafted by the Nashville Predators last year, me out as gay wh a heartfelt statement to fans this week, an admissn he said he hoped would improve gay visibily wh the hockey muny. * gay hockey team london *
The Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn, otherwise known as the "TGHA, " is a non-ntact ice hockey league for gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, queer, and heterosexual people over neteen.
Wh an imprsive 14 teams and more than 210 playg members, the TGHA is one of the largt gay hockey leagu the world!
NHL PROSPECT LE PROKOP OUT AS GAY, A FIRST FOR THE LEAGUE
The number of openly gay and lbian athlet at the 2012 London Summer Olympics is ahead of the totals for Athens 2004 and Beijg 2008, wh all but three beg lbians. There are 23 openly gay and lbian London Olympians, pl two ach.
There are also two gay Paralympians. The Outsports list of 21 openly gay and lbians Olympic athlet are:. Women's soccer head ach, is openly gay, as is Hope Powell, Bra women's soccer ach.
The gay Paralympians are Lee Pearson, a male Brish equtrian athlete, and Claire Harvey, a member of Bra's women's volleyball team. Simple math dictat that there are many more gay and lbian athlet London than who are publicly out.
HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
Wh 12, 602 athlet set to pete, jt 1% of them beg gay or lbian would be 126.
Dpe our bt efforts, 's possible we have missed someone -- pecially non-Amerins -- who have publicly clared their homosexualy (if so, email the tails. I didn't want to be about beg the gay diver. When I was on my book tour '95, I had a lot of people e up to me and say they were gay and they weren't out and they were a team sport.
As former Amerin equtrian athlete Robert Dover (who is gay) said to the AP prr to the 2004 Gam:.
LE PROKOP COM OUT AS GAY AND MAK NHL HISTORY
"You spend a day wh the athlet, and be obv that gay people are everywhere. "People probably gused that I was gay bee I'm pretty transparent the way that I live my life. He has embraced beg a spokman for gay rights and is not shy about standg up and speakg out.
"Y, I'm that gay, 2008-Olympic-gold-medal-wng diver du, " he says on his terrific Twter page. And we're far om beg at the pot where beg an openly gay Olympian won't be a story.