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Wdy Cy Tim News - Abby Wambach, one of the most succsful and rated female soccer players history, nfirmed Wednday, Oct. 9, that she is gay and that she married fellow soccer player Sarah Huffman. Wambach tweeted Wednday: Sarah and I * is abby wambach gay *

On the podst “We Can Do Hard Thgs wh Glennon Doyle, ” Abby Wambach talked about her experience wh relign and beg gay.

”Wambach rells beg a teenager and tellg her iend om church that she was gay.

“If you are part of an anizatn — a fay, a nversatn, a iend, a church that is lettg homophobia live sidly — you have three choic, ” Doyle said. Wambach joed Athlete Ally over the summer, which is a group supportg gay athlet.

SOCCER STAR ABBY WAMBACH AND THE TRMATIC CHOICE BETWEEN BEG GAY AND THE CHURCH

I’m hontly not the kd of person who wants to step up to a podium, tt the microphone and be like, ‘Hey, I’m homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.

And two, this says a lot about the overall attu and acceptance of gay athlet.

Whether an athlete is gay or not shouldn’t be a big al, jt like hasn’t been for Wambach, who was the 2012 FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year. We should be at a pot where whether an athlete is gay or not is nsequential. 9, that she is gay—and that she married fellow soccer player Sarah Huffman.