Contents:
- MARTA NAVRATILOVA ON MEGAN RAPOE AND THE TRAJECTORY OF GAY WOMEN SPORTS
- MARTA NAVRATILOVA: LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY SUPERSTAR SET ME EE
MARTA NAVRATILOVA ON MEGAN RAPOE AND THE TRAJECTORY OF GAY WOMEN SPORTS
At the same time that she ma the cisn not to return to Czechoslovakia, she also realized that she was gay. “I never said no, I wasn’t gay, ” she relled. Cizenship was still pendg and uld be nied on the grounds of her homosexualy.
(This provisn of the Immigratn and Natnaly Act was dropped 1990, when was redrafted by Reprentative Barney Frank, of Massachetts, who is gay. She also told some of the other tennis players that, once she had her passport, “If anybody asks me about , I’m jt gog to say, ‘Y, I am gay. It seems like happened so quickly, gay marriage and all that, but if you are livg the middle of , happened very slowly.
'If two gays live together, nobody thks anythg. We have one gay and one straight -- what's the big al? I jt have a better time wh women, straight or gay, basilly bee I don't have to go to bed wh them.
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.
Beg an openly gay superstar? She qutned why gay people wh Aids did not receive siar sympathy, addg that if a woman ught the disease om beg wh hundreds of men, "they'd ll her a whore and a slut, and the rporatns would drop her like a lead balloon".