USWNT’s Megan Rapoe be first openly gay woman to pose for SI swimsu issue - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• 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

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

She is one of the world’s most famo out gay athlet, and fights fiercely for the LGBTQ+ muny. For a while, she was the only openly gay player on the U.

SUE BIRD AND MEGAN RAPOE FED THE NCEPT OF A GAY SPORTS POWER UPLE

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.

'ONE LIFE': SOCCER PLAYER MEGAN RAPOE ON SPORTS, BEG GAY AND TAKG A STAND

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.

As progrs, unrlyg gay pri lor them emerge and showse a different msage. An activist theme appears to overri the Amerin theme as Rapoe speaks at a podium wh gay pri flags flyg behd her. It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

USWNT’S MEGAN RAPOE BE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO POSE FOR SI SWIMSU ISSUE

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. Megan proclaimed herself gay a 2012 terview OUT magaze, but Sue didn’t share that fact about her until meetg Rapo. “I’m gay.

Two-time Women’s World Cup champn Megan Rapoe is planng to hang up her cleats at the end of the 2023 Natnal Women’s Soccer League of her fourth and fal World Cup Atralia and New Zealand, the openly gay soccer star announced the news that she plans to retire om the sport. She beme one of the first out gay women soccer when she disclosed her sexualy to Out 2012.

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.