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• A MIRACLE CONNECTICUT SUN EBACK WOULD HELP GAY ACH CURT MILLER MAKE HISTORY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY WNBA ACH CURT MILLER OPENS UP ABOUT BUBBLE LIFE: ‘IT FEELS LIKE GROUNDHOG DAY’
• CURT MILLER EMBRAC BEG WNBA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE HEAD ACH
• CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
• THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

A MIRACLE CONNECTICUT SUN EBACK WOULD HELP GAY ACH CURT MILLER MAKE HISTORY

Currently down two gam to none, if the Sun were to pull off a miracle eback to feat the Las Vegas Ac, Miller would pull off an equally legendary feat: the first champnship for a publicly out gay male head ach any major sport anywhere the world. Miller already broke through one barrier when he was named Sun Head Coach, beg the first publicly out gay man to ach a profsnal team North Ameri. Wh a tle hand, Miller would prove to the entire sports world that a gay head ach is every b as pable of ung and leadg a champnship roster as his straight unterparts.

And he would make a ltle b easier for other gay prospective ach to follow his footsteps and fd jobs themselv. In fact, a good argument n be ma that Miller has already monstrated that a gay ach has what tak by takg the Sun to the Fals twice four years.

Miller himself knows the importance of visibily for other gay men lookg to ach profsnal sports. “One of the thgs that ma sry for me to be out was I didn’t see that gay male succsful ach, ” he explaed to Outsports’ Alex Reimer on The Sports Kiki podst. And when anyone asks, “Yeah but n a gay head ach really lead a pro sports team, ” all you’ll have to do is show them his picture.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

One of the thgs that ma sry for me to be out was I didn’t see that gay male succsful ach. “Sometim ’s tratg when articl are wrten out there about how’s there’s no (openly gay) ach the NBA right now, there’s no major ach Divisn 1 men’s basketball. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

GAY WNBA ACH CURT MILLER OPENS UP ABOUT BUBBLE LIFE: ‘IT FEELS LIKE GROUNDHOG DAY’

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

Last time we ught up wh Curt Miller, the openly gay head ach and general manager of the Connecticut Sun was feelg reflective.

CURT MILLER EMBRAC BEG WNBA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE HEAD ACH

Maxen origally ntacted gay NFL player Carl Nassib Febary 2022, who then nnected Maxen wh Outsports. Curt Miller embrac beg WNBA's only openly gay male head ach.

Los Angel Sparks ach Curt Miller shar his story as the only openly gay male head ach women's profsnal basketball. Miller is the only out gay male head ach profsnal sports.

For Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird, who me out as gay publicly 2017, the WNBA's embrace of Pri was a part of her journey and also ccial to the league's future. "The WNBA began play June 1997, one year after the Defense of Marriage Act -- which ferally fed marriage as the unn of one man and one woman, and allowed stat to refe regnn for same-sex marriag that were legal other stat -- was signed to league tipped off about seven weeks after the famo "The Puppy Episo" of Ellen DeGener' s which her character out as gay, while DeGener herself was g out real life. The episo was a ratgs succs, but the show was nceled a season later amid cricism that was "too gay, " and DeGener has said she had to rebuild her reer.

CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT

"I remember thkg, 'The same people that we're worried about bypassg bee of homophobia are gog to fd any reason to do that bee they're not supportive of women general. After the 2005 season, four-time WNBA champn Sheryl Swoop me out as gay.

1 draft pick 2006 who won four tl wh the Lynx before retirg ahead of the 2021 season, was another proment WNBA player who 2012 me out publicly as gay. "South Korea, Rsia and Turkey -- those aren't gay-iendly untri, but I adjt, " Wters wrote then, addg she saw a big difference between the Uned Stat 2000 when she first played the WNBA Cleveland, and 2016 when she won a tle wh Los Angel. 1 the draft, Grer spoke openly about beg gay and got strong support om her new team, the Phoenix spoke wh ESPN last year about her memori of the WNBA draft 2013, when she wore a su which she felt fortable, and talked to fellow draftee Layshia Clarendon, who did the same.

THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY

"I hate to say this, but I thk the gay muny is jt ed to beg treated like that, " one Stars season-ticket holr said. "The leaguewi embrace of Pri also has helped foster uny among players about the tersectn of racism, sexism and anti-gay sentiments. I watch this closely, havg gay iends and teammat.

1 pick 2016, was fortable last year publicly sharg news of her engagement and marriage to fellow basketball player Marta Xargay Casamont, pl the birth of their dghter.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

(AP)The WNBA has historilly been the most forward-thkg sports league Ameri when to gay rights.

While the WNBA hasn’t always ma the LGBTQ muny proud wh how choos to promote and acmodate s gay players, ’s fair to say that they’ve ma meangful stris. In a new terview wh the San Diego Unn-Tribune, Wiggs says that “98 percent” of the WNBA is gay and that she would have played two more years if not for the “toxic” environment that affected her as a straight woman:“I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend self to my mental state, ” Wiggs said.

“I would say 98 percent of the women the WNBA are gay women. So acrdg to the numbers, I intify as gay now— Deverex Peters (@MsPeters14) Febary 20, 2017It’s tough to asss all of Wiggs’s statements, bee she is ultimately scribg a personal experience that have not yet been refuted.