Uned Stat Olympic soccer star Megan Rapoe has publicly stated that she is homosexual and a mted relatnship wh another soccer player om Atralia. The Olympian me out as gay the latt issue of "Out" magaze.
Contents:
- 'ONE LIFE': SOCCER PLAYER MEGAN RAPOE ON SPORTS, BEG GAY AND TAKG A STAND
- SUE BIRD AND MEGAN RAPOE FED THE NCEPT OF A GAY SPORTS POWER UPLE
- MEGAN RAPOE OUTED HER TW SISTER AS GAY TO THEIR PARENTS
- MEGAN RAPOE COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS RELATNSHIP
- USWNT’S MEGAN RAPOE BE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO POSE FOR SI SWIMSU ISSUE
'ONE LIFE': SOCCER PLAYER MEGAN RAPOE ON SPORTS, BEG GAY AND TAKG A STAND
Rapoe has ma headl for takg a stand on gay rights and women's rights, for takg a knee to support Black Rapoe, RAPINOE: Oh, thank you for havg Let's start at the begng. I don't know really what the solutn is, but I don't really like the way that 's One of the moments that ma me se the book is your acunt of how you realized that you are gay. Can you see a world where MAGA-hat-wearg Tmp voters embrace a gay soccer star wh pk hair?
(LAUGHTER)RAPINOE: I would tell her, you're gay, you know? 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. Megan Rapoe's aternal tw Rachael Rapoe has revealed that her soccer star sister outed her as gay to their mother to take the heat off of herself after her own g out went badly.
SUE BIRD AND MEGAN RAPOE FED THE NCEPT OF A GAY SPORTS POWER UPLE
Sister, sister: Rachael Rapoe (right) revealed that her soccer star tw sister Megan Rapoe (left) had outed her as gay to their mother after her own g out went badly Lookg back: Rachael explaed that she and Megan grew up a ral, relig area California and were 'never told that women dated women and men dated men''We had never spoken about but we had that kd of twship, so I knew Meg had always felt a ltle b different. 'So I told Megan I’d been gog through a breakup and I was datg this girl, but I still would not nsir myself gay or bisexual or anythg. 'Meg then told me that she was attracted to women and that she thought she was gay, ' she ntued.
Takg the heat off herself: Shortly after they me out to each other, Megan me out to their mother, and when went badly, she blurted out: 'Well, Rachael’s gay too!
MEGAN RAPOE OUTED HER TW SISTER AS GAY TO THEIR PARENTS
She didn’t take very well, and she was very upset, and Meg’s send reactn after g out was: "Well, Rachael’s gay too! 'That was her fense mechanism, to tell my mom and dad that I was gay too. Usg her platform: Megan has ed her platform as a soccer hero to champn for equal rights as a member of the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) and Athlete Ally Openg up: Megan (pictured wh her girliend Sue Bird) talkg about her own g out December, sayg: 'I didn't know that I was gay until I got to llege''My fay is wonrful, but when you go to Reddg, California, you're not overe wh this sense of acceptance, ' she explaed.
Megan has ed her platform as a soccer hero to champn for equal rights as a member of the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) and Athlete Ally, an LGBTQ athletic advocy group. 'Shockgly — this is like the greatt shock of all time — I didn't know that I was gay until I got to llege, ' she said, explag everythg clicked for her when she moved to Portland for school.
'"Rapoe admted that she ma "such a bad imprsn, " wh her first le to the soccer star me out as gay 2012, Bird did not follow su until 2017, when the uple revealed that they were datg. Speakg to ESPNW that year, Bird said: "I'm gay. 2017: Sue Bird out as gay and announc her relatnship wh Megan Rapoe.
MEGAN RAPOE COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS RELATNSHIP
While Rapoe publicly me out as gay 2012 via an OUT magaze feature, Bird did not e out until 2017.
USWNT’S MEGAN RAPOE BE FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN TO POSE FOR SI SWIMSU ISSUE
"I'm gay. A year, five years, 10 years, 20 years, to look back and be like, 'Oh, they were the first openly gay uple to be the issue. She had been out to iends and fay for years, but she'd never revealed she was gay publicly until an terview wh Out 2012.
"I had bee more vol for gay marriage and gay rights on social media, and at some pot jt felt a ltle thentic, " Rapoe told the New York Tim. Sports that people have told her she "gave them the ph or the nfince that they need to be themselv, or tell their fai [they're gay], or e out. Megan Rapoe's tw is also gay.
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