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MARTA NAVRATILOVA: LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY SUPERSTAR SET ME EE
But a young wars has no ia she had served a tuna-salad platter wh a si of asparag to someone who, four s ago, was workg to bee the mol for the morn, socially aware Navratilova’s heyday, the 1980s, the world did not have much appete for an outspoken, openly gay woman whose romantic partners sat urtsi while she domated her sport as no one else had – wng 18 Grand Slam sgl tl and 59 all, the last g 2006, when she was 49. Defectg om Czechoslovakia at 18 saved her soul, she says, and livg as an openly gay superstar athlete set her ee.
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So do the ach and the is the stereotype that many female athlet are homosexual. “It’s a stereotypil pigeon-holg of women athlet, ” Shriver said, addg that many younger pros on the tennis tour now travel wh their hbands or boyiends to unter the perceptn that they are gay. A 1988-89 study missned by the NCAA showed that many women terllegiate athletics have felt they are beg stereotyped as the women the study who said they were aware of existg stereotyp, 54% of admistrators, 51% of ach and 46% of players dited that their volvement sports led others to assume that they preferred a homosexual liftyle.