Daria Kasatka: Top Rsian tennis player out as gay | CNN

Contents:

• THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
• TOP RSIAN TENNIS PLAYER DARIA KASATKA OUT AS GAY
• 5 ACTIVE TENNIS PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY OR BISEXUAL, FT. DARIA KASATKA & SAMANTHA STOSUR
• THE GAY TENNIS PLAYERS SMASHG DOWN BARRIERS AS WIMBLEDON 2023 GETS UNRWAY
• TOP TENNIS STARS VOICE SUPPORT FOR GAY ATHLET, SAY THE ATP TOUR IS ACCEPTG
• THERE WILL BE NO OUT GAY MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AT THE U.S. OPEN, YET AGA
• "IF THERE'S A GAY PLAYER THE LOCKER ROOM, NOTHG HAPPENS" - DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN, THE LATT STAR TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT
• QUERREY: ‘THERE’S GOT TO BE SOMEONE WHO PLAYS TENNIS WHO IS GAY’

THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY

Some tennis players astonished everyone by revealg their genr publicly and g out as homosexual. We will unravel the top 5 tennis players you didn’t know were homosexual.

TOP RSIAN TENNIS PLAYER DARIA KASATKA OUT AS GAY

The lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and other non-cisgenr or non-heterosexual (LGBTQ+) muny is prent wh sports worldwi. Top 5 Tennis Players You Didn’t Know Were Homosexual. Compared to other sports, Tennis has maly been open and non-homophobic.

Many well-known players are openly gay and lbian and have bee champns proudly, makg themselv known to the world. Brian Vahaly, the top tennis player who me out as a homosexual (Source: Tennis World). Casey Dellacqua is one of the tennis players to e out as homosexual (Source: Ptert).

Lisa Raymond, another homosexual tennis player (Source: Twter). Gigi Fernánz is also a renowned tennis player who me out as homosexual (Source: Ptert). Mart Navratilova me out as homosexual 1981, makg her one of the few tennis players to do so (Source: Getty Imag).

5 ACTIVE TENNIS PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY OR BISEXUAL, FT. DARIA KASATKA & SAMANTHA STOSUR

As a former men’s llegiate tennis player and openly gay member of my team, this qutn nagged at me as I attend the monumental first ever Pri event at the U.

As a former llegiate tennis player and gay man, this event stck a particularly sensive chord for me. After all of the homophobia I have personally experienced sports, the panelists and the packed dience gave me so much hope for the future of cln sports.

The trailblazer for gay visibily on the ATP tour scribed himself durg the panel discsn as “an anx guy and an anx tennis player, ” statg that his disfort wh his sexual orientatn throughout his life was a signifint ntributor to his anxiety. To me, the fact that Vahaly was even able to make on tour as a closeted gay man the 2000s mak him que an anomaly. The days, top players Roger Ferer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have all publicly stated that they would wele an out gay man to the ATP.

THE GAY TENNIS PLAYERS SMASHG DOWN BARRIERS AS WIMBLEDON 2023 GETS UNRWAY

While we now celebrate Kg for her acplishments as a gay rights activist, the sacrific she had to make and terrors that she endured for wantg to be her thentic self after beg outed towards the end of her profsnal tennis reer – nearly 40 years ago – are unjtifiable. Statistilly speakg, there mt be a man the top 100, 200, 500 or even 1, 000 who is gay, right? Combe that wh gay and bisexual men reprentg a signifintly smaller portn of the populatn than heterosexual men, and the odds of havg one of makg through the ranks growg up and currently beg a profsnal tennis player are slim, no matter how welg players such as Ferer, Djokovic and Murray are 2019.

There uld be someone makg their way up the rankgs junrs right now, who hopefully will not be terred om tennis for beg a gay or bisexual man, who will see events such as the U. As Rippon highlighted, g out and beg labeled as “that gay athlete” is not easy to al wh. Insir is highlightg out and proud athlet honor of the annual celebratn of those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and morn-day stars like USWNT pta Megan Rapoe and WNBA legend, Diana Trasi, are NBA player Jason Pl Colls, former NFL nng back David Kopay, and tennis in Billie Jean Kg were trailblazers their rpective sports.

TOP TENNIS STARS VOICE SUPPORT FOR GAY ATHLET, SAY THE ATP TOUR IS ACCEPTG

Longtime NFL offensive leman Ryan O'Callaghan me out as gay publicly 2017 via a story for Outsports and revealed that he had long planned to kill himself once his football reer was over. She's sce bee a vol gay rights advote and one of the most fluential voic at the tersectn of sports and social movements. In 1999, after his profsnal reer me to a close, Bean me out as gay.

After g out 2013, Michael Sam was one of the first publicly gay players high-profile llege football history.

Louis Rams 2014, makg him the first out gay man drafted to the NFL, although he never played a regular-season NFL game. Jason Pl Colls spent 13 seasons the NBA and, after g out 2013, beme the first out gay athlete actively playg any of the four major North Amerin pro sports leagu. Olympic skater Adam Rippon ma history as the first out gay man to jo Team USA for a wter Olympics and, Pyeongchang, he beme the first to w a medal at the Gam.

THERE WILL BE NO OUT GAY MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AT THE U.S. OPEN, YET AGA

Former NFL nng back David Kopay me out as gay 1975, beg one of the first profsnal athlet to publicly e out of the closet. Former New York Giants and Washgton Redsks guard Roy Simmons me out as gay 1992, well after his NFL reer had e to a close. Amerin mid-distance nner Nikki Hiltz is an out gay woman and an activist.

Profsnal skateboarr Brian Anrson me out as gay 2016. But I don't like that word: homosexual, gay or faggot. "In 1992, he was nearly killed after leavg a gay bar New York Cy.

"IF THERE'S A GAY PLAYER THE LOCKER ROOM, NOTHG HAPPENS" - DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN, THE LATT STAR TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT

Whether the cint was rooted homophobia is unclear, but left Griffh hospalized for four months.

QUERREY: ‘THERE’S GOT TO BE SOMEONE WHO PLAYS TENNIS WHO IS GAY’

He publicly me out as gay 1994 and is a vol gay rights and HIV awarens advote, havg later e out as HIV+ as well.