Brtney Grer, the No. 1 pick the WNBA draft, acknowledged Wednday terviews that she is gay.
Contents:
- WNBA'S BRTNEY GRER ON BEG A GAY ATHLETE: I FELT LIKE HALF OF ME WASN'T ACCEPTED
- WNBA STAR BRTNEY GRER TALKS ABOUT BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE ENDORSED BY NIKE
- TOP 5 WNBA PLAYERS WHO ARE GAY / LBIAN FEAT. BRTNEY GRER, SUE BIRD, AND MORE
- BRTNEY GRER DISCS BEG GAY
- WNBA STAR BRTNEY GRER OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY PROFSNAL SPORTS: "DON'T HI WHO YOU REALLY ARE"
WNBA'S BRTNEY GRER ON BEG A GAY ATHLETE: I FELT LIKE HALF OF ME WASN'T ACCEPTED
WNBA star Brtney Grer [she/her], 30, was the number 1 overall pick at the 2013 WNBA Draft, and publicly discsed beg gay soon afterwards. She plays for the Phoenix Mercury, and is a seven-time WNBA All-Star. * brittney wnba gay *
But as a gay woman, she also felt burned by a policy wrten to the stunt handbook at her private Christian universy, which banned homosexual behavr and advocy for LGBT issu, she tells PEOPLE exclively for a portfol of gay profsnal athlet who discs their cisn to play and live openly. But after beg out to iends and fay at home Hoton om the age of 15, Grer, now, 23, says the school’s official stance – which she didn’t disver until the start of her sophomore year – ed tensn, pecially when a ach lled Grer to her office after she sent a Tweet to her then-girliend.
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WNBA STAR BRTNEY GRER TALKS ABOUT BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY ATHLETE ENDORSED BY NIKE
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BRTNEY GRER DISCS BEG GAY
“I was fely myself, but I had teammat who were gay and lbian, wasn’t talked about. After a few months they opened up and said they were gay, but ’s not talked about there, ” Grer said. Fagan add that while NFL player Michael Sam might face homophobia, “Brtney occupi this ner sanctum space — she is facg all the ‘isms’ that no other athlete embodi.
WNBA STAR BRTNEY GRER OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY PROFSNAL SPORTS: "DON'T HI WHO YOU REALLY ARE"
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