Uned Stat Olympic soccer star Megan Rapoe has publicly stated that she is homosexual and a mted relatnship wh another soccer player om Atralia. The Olympian me out as gay the latt issue of "Out" magaze.
Contents:
- SOCCER STAR MEGAN RAPOE: “I’M GAY”
- MEGAN RAPOE COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS RELATNSHIP
- SUE BIRD AND MEGAN RAPOE FED THE NCEPT OF A GAY SPORTS POWER UPLE
- 'ONE LIFE': SOCCER PLAYER MEGAN RAPOE ON SPORTS, BEG GAY AND TAKG A STAND
- USWNT’S MEGAN RAPOE BE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO POSE FOR SI SWIMSU ISSUE
- MEGAN RAPOE: 'GOD FORBID YOU BE A GAY WOMAN AND A PERSON OF LOR THE US'
- MEGAN RAPOE'S TW SISTER RACHAEL REVEALS HER SOCCER STAR SIBLG OUTED HER AS GAY TO THEIR PARENTS AFTER HER OWN G OUT WENT BADLY
SOCCER STAR MEGAN RAPOE: “I’M GAY”
Women's soccer team the London Summer Olympics later this month, the midfielr, 27, tells Out Magaze: "For the rerd, I'm gay. "I feel like sports general are still homophobic, the sense that not a lot of people are out... '"Rapoe admted that she ma "such a bad imprsn, " wh her first le to the soccer star me out as gay 2012, Bird did not follow su until 2017, when the uple revealed that they were datg.
Speakg to ESPNW that year, Bird said: "I'm gay. In 2019 alone, she appeared the SI Swimsu Issue as the anchise’s first openly gay mol, led the U. “I thk so often wh gay femal sports there’s this particular stereotype about and there’s such a narrow view of what means to be gay and be athletic.
Uned Stat Olympic soccer star Megan Rapoe has publicly stated that she is homosexual and a mted relatnship wh another soccer player om Atralia. The Olympian me out as gay the latt issue of "Out" magaze.
MEGAN RAPOE COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS RELATNSHIP
"I thk they were tryg to be rpectful and that 's my job to say, 'I'm gay, '" Rapoe told terviewer Jerry Portwood. For the rerd: I am gay. She talked about revealg their ntroversial relatnship to the world, and Rapoe still feels that sports are "homophobic, the sense that not a lot of people are out.
""In female sports, if you're gay, most likely your team knows pretty quickly. Bird and her partner Megan Rapoe mastreamed the ncept of the gay sports power uple.
Almost om that very moment, the public embraced the two of them unlike any gay or lbian athlete uple before. The two legends began seeg each other only a year after the Obergefell cisn, which turned out to be ftg, as they eventually beme the sports power uple for the legalized gay marriage generatn. Rapoe, who is gay, is an outspoken advote for LGBTQ+ rights and was a lear the natnal team’s fight for genr equaly, which paid off last year when U.
SUE BIRD AND MEGAN RAPOE FED THE NCEPT OF A GAY SPORTS POWER UPLE
Rapoe has been an equally effective activist away om the spotlight, where she has quietly pledged part of her salary to soccer-centered chari around the world, worked wh the ACLU, partnered wh the Seattle-area Boys and Girls Clubs and served as an ambassador for Athlete Ally, which oppos homophobia sports. She is one of the world’s most famo out gay athlet, and fights fiercely for the LGBTQ+ muny. “Unniably we've changed the game and been a part of the multi movements that are all kd of happeng at the same time and have left the world a better CUP CENTRAL: 2023 Women's World Cup Live Sr, Schl, Standgs, Bracket and More“I thk female athlet serve a lot of cred for what we fought for, whether 's Black Liv Matter, police btaly, trans rights sports, women's rights sports, bodily tonomy, gay rights sports, equal pay, landmark ntract negotiatns, ” she add.
”As had Rapoe Rapoe was an unapologetic lear off the fieldThough had long been known to her fay and iends, Rapoe announced before the 2012 London Olympics that she is gay. The Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage was still three years away and, 2016, a gunman would open fire an LGBTQ nightclub, killg 49 people and woundg 53 were gay athlet and celebri, sure.
'ONE LIFE': SOCCER PLAYER MEGAN RAPOE ON SPORTS, BEG GAY AND TAKG A STAND
She created a lane to be at peace while strivg for stardom as an openly gay woman who exprs herself eely on and off the 38, Rapoe is 20 years olr than teen prodigy Alyssa Thompson, an exaggerated example of the shift occurrg on the dynastic U. 2017: Sue Bird out as gay and announc her relatnship wh Megan Rapoe.
While Rapoe publicly me out as gay 2012 via an OUT magaze feature, Bird did not e out until 2017.
USWNT’S MEGAN RAPOE BE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO POSE FOR SI SWIMSU ISSUE
"I'm gay. A year, five years, 10 years, 20 years, to look back and be like, 'Oh, they were the first openly gay uple to be the issue.
MEGAN RAPOE: 'GOD FORBID YOU BE A GAY WOMAN AND A PERSON OF LOR THE US'
For a while, she was the only openly gay player on the U. Natnal women's soccer team to e out, although you say there were plenty of other women who were gay but not out. You say you were one of the only gay players at the time, which is hilar nsirg how many gay people were really on the team.
RAPINOE: You know, I hontly felt like - I mean, even gog back to when I first sort of disvered I was gay myself, which happened very shortly after I got to llege, I never stggled wh that. I still, to this day, have, you know, people g up to me or wrg to me or whatever may be, you know, thankg me or sayg, you know, I'm the reason they felt OK wh themselv or I'm the reason their fay was OK or, you know, parents g up to me who, you know, very clearly have ltle, buddg gay children. They see a future for their children that isn't, you know, jt all about the stereotype that you hear, which is how hard life is to be gay.
And not to say that life isn't difficult beg gay. Whenever I go to a room, like, we don't have to talk about the fact that I'm gay - or an terview or whatever don't have to be all about that, but I'm very out and proud and will show that and will live a very out and open life. Rapoe has ma headl for takg a stand on gay rights and women's rights, for takg a knee to support Black Rapoe, RAPINOE: Oh, thank you for havg Let's start at the begng.
MEGAN RAPOE'S TW SISTER RACHAEL REVEALS HER SOCCER STAR SIBLG OUTED HER AS GAY TO THEIR PARENTS AFTER HER OWN G OUT WENT BADLY
I don't know really what the solutn is, but I don't really like the way that 's One of the moments that ma me se the book is your acunt of how you realized that you are gay. Can you see a world where MAGA-hat-wearg Tmp voters embrace a gay soccer star wh pk hair? (LAUGHTER)RAPINOE: I would tell her, you're gay, you know?
She served one of the most inic cross the history of women’s soccer the 2011 World Cup, and me out as gay the followg year; knelt solidary wh Col Kaepernick 2016 (beg the first whe Amerin athlete to jo his prott), and ffled the feathery ego of former Print Donald Tmp when she said, “I’m not gog to the f—–g Whe Hoe” 2019. (Or, if misogyny or homophobia is your bag, worse. ) More than a ago, she me out as gay, givg many other female sports figur permissn to be more open about their sexualy.