Former Major League Baseball player Billy Bean, who made news in 1999 when he came out openly as gay four years after he retired from the sport, has posed for the NOH8 Campaign, which raises awareness and funds for gay rights causes, including ending C…
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gay persons of color: San Francisco Giants to produce "It Gets Better" video
The San Francisco Giants will produce a YouTube video for the “It Gets Better” campaign, the hope project launched by Dan Savage in 2010 in response to several highly publicized suicides by gay teenagers in the United States, reports the Associated Pre…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Phoenix Suns President Rick Welts comes out; players featured in pro-gay PSA
The past few days have been momentous for American professional basketball fans, and, in particular, those of the Phoenix Suns, whose President and CEO Rick Welts bravely came out openly as gay over the weekend. According to a Sunday New York Times art…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Carolina Panthers linebacker Nic Harris in support of marriage equality
Nic Harris, linebacker for the Carolina Panthers, has come out in support of equal rights by participating in the NOH8 Campaign, which is a photographic silent protest created by Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley in direct response to the discrimin…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Watch: Sean Avery endorses marriage equality with video
“I’m Sean Avery, and I’m a New Yorker for marriage equality. I treat everyone the way I expect to be treated, and that applies to marriage.”After New York Rangers left winger Sean Avery declared his support early in 2011 for any hockey player who m…
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