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Athlete Well-Being & lgbtqia sexuality

Below are the best resources we could find on Athlete Well-Being and lgbtqia sexuality.

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Raiders DE Carl Nassib Becomes the First Active NFL Player to Come Out as Gay | SportsCenter

Las Vegas Raiders DE Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to come out as gay when he made the announcement, and pledged a $100,000 donation to the Trevor Project, on Instagram on Monday. Mina Kimes joins SportsCenter to discuss the importance of Nassib’s announcement.

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Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports

When Cyd Zeigler started writing about LGBT sports issues in 1999, no one wanted to talk about them. Today, this is a central conversation in American society that reverberates throughout the sports world and beyond.

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Gay Pro Baseball Player Bryan Ruby Found Inspiration Reading these 39 LGBT Sports Books

Gay pro baseball player Bryan Ruby shares his favorite books about LGBT athletes, plus his entire reading list.

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Megan Rapinoe Calls Out Sports Illustrated During Speech

Megan Rapinoe calls out Sports Illustrated; Rick Strom breaks it down.

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Out at Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball’s First Openly Gay Player

Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first—and only—openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in his own way, nearly thirty years after another black Dodger rookie, Jackie Robinson, broke the league’s color barrier.

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Fighting Sex Discrimination in Sports

Noriana Radwan lost her scholarship for “unsportsmanlike behavior” commonly accepted from male athletes. What happened? How do we make sure that all athletes, female athletes, trans athletes, LGBTQ+ athletes, belong in sports?

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Athletes Fighting for LGBTQ Rights

The Tokyo Games have seen a historic number of publicly out athletes competing—putting a spotlight on LGBTQ+ rights in the sporting world. Professional boxer Makoto Kikuchi, who came out ahead of the Olympics, hopes to encourage more people to accept their identity.

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Transgender Track Stars Speak Out as Critics Allege Unfair Advantage

Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood have faced backlash in their Connecticut community for their track and field accomplishments.

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Reasons to Have Pride in 2012, Part 1

Because there are out WNBA players.

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Ellen Chats with Inspiring College Football Player Jake Bain

Ellen sat down with Indiana State University football player Jake Bain, who gave an inspiring speech during a high school assembly, in which he came out to all of his peers.

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