The climate is much different for men. That stigma... -Megan Rapinoe

The climate is much different for men. That stigma is only going to be broken when people come out and see that there is a positive response. That doesn't mean there will be no negative response, but if people can have the courage to be one of the first, which is very hard, those barriers can be broken down very quickly.

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In female sports, if you're gay, most likely your team knows it pretty quickly. It's very open and widely supported. For males, it's not that way at a...
If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and h...
There are plenty of sports teams that say they're very open and super accepting in the locker room. But are they really? Is it really a safe environme...
I think our existence in professional sports is almost a protest in and of itself in sometimes the very sexist society that we live in. For us, it's j...
I think there's a lot of gay women in sports, and it's widely known in the team; they can live a pretty open lifestyle without being open in the media...
Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women's sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It's going to be much more of a bra...
Our team, in general, is in a position where people look up to us, and kids look up to us. I embrace that, and I think I have a huge LGBT following. I...
Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we're women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We've been feeling the ine...
Over the years, I have really figured out what works for me. It's not about what anyone else is doing. I can't worry about whether I am doing everythi...
I'm a pretty open book, so not being out publicly felt inauthentic. Hopefully we can get to a point where your personal life isn't anybody else's busi...

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