We are the trans, the non-binary, the gender non-conforming, the cis women, the gay women, all across the spectrum of what women can be – in a predominantly black league. It was this cloud over my head.
After surpassing No. The WNBA star responds to the Atlanta Dream co-owner’s criticism of Black Lives Matter. She was OK with owning our team.
Or, Is that guy staring at me because I’m holding my wife’s hand? The players have spoken – she does not align with our league.
Layshia Clarendon shares an every-day moment in her commentary, ... recalls walking out of Trader Joe’s one day with her wife, in the months before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived.
Duathlete Chris Mosier is one of the first out trans athletes to join a US national team that did not align with his sex at birth. We’ve been standing up for years, before we saw murals of black women emblazoned across the country, we were here. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) More. She's widely expected to be one of the first female head coaches in a major professional sports league. The Undefeated asked Loeffler for comment and a spokesperson for the senator provided this statement: “Senator Loeffler believes the life of each and every African American matters, period. Meanwhile, the 11-3 … He publicly came out as gay in 1994 and is a vocal gay rights and HIV awareness advocate, having later come out as HIV+ as well.
Born in San Bernardino, California, they completed their college career at the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. These are the fears the rest of us don’t generally have to face. Never did I feel in any way threatened. He later came out publicly and told The New York Times that "prejudice drove me out of baseball sooner than I should have, but I wasn't changing.". How Layshia Clarendon, Athlete and Activist, Spends Sundays The New York Liberty guard has worked all summer in Florida as part of the W.N.B.A.’s experiment isolating in a bubble. Penny Taylor was a WNBA star in her own right, not to mention a leader on Australian national team for years as she faced off against her now-wife and Team USA in international competition.
After coming out in 2013, Michael Sam was one of the first publicly gay players in high-profile college football history. He told Outsports.com that he feared that he would "lose that camaraderie and family" by coming out during his career. A three-time WNBA All-Star and one of the most prominent faces on the Chicago Sky, Allie Quigley married teammate and longtime Sky point guard Courtney Vandersloot in 2018.
He's been a vocal LGBTQ+ advocate ever since. I don't know what I am. Clarendon is first vice president of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association, a member of the recently formed WNBA Social Justice Council and played for the Dream from 2016 to 2018. Clarendon continued her reign of terror in the tournament, eviscerating No. At a time when black people and political organizations have a collective voice and momentum, it’s no wonder people are terrified of voting becoming a fair fight, that sports leagues would start saying Black Lives Matter instead of shutting up and being entertainment, that we could defund the police and start pouring resources into helping communities instead of criminalizing them. Insider is highlighting out and proud athletes in honor of the annual celebration of those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and more. Kelly knows that in this moment, distancing herself from the WNBA and BLM only strengthens her political power. “I think it just creates more security and more of an opportunity to start investing money. So take a moment, as hopefully many of us have done in recent weeks, to imagine being Layshia Clarendon .
We got to meet her a couple days ago.
By the time Clarendon was a senior, she had already been named to an All-Pac-12 team, helped Cal get back to the NCAA Tournament and become competitive within its conference. since. I believe we can have social accountability without police.
It was the fourth time Team USA had won the event (1997, 2005, 2007). He was tall, white, and wearing camouflage pants with a black shirt. Now 29, her years at Cal provided an awakening, she explains, as she realized basketball was a haven where her race and sexuality did not make her stand out. She was OK with having players who spoke out, like I have, but she is not OK with us gaining this momentum and power. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to get more of it. A few years later, he revealed he was HIV-positive. It’s unfortunate the league and many others are choosing politics, division and cancel culture instead of unity.”. This time around, the story was different, and the Americans capitalized when it mattered most, 87-71, awarding Clarendon with the first of two gold medals she has won (so far). Now eyes have turned on us in a moment of turmoil, our Donald Sterling moment.