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RECENT
ATHLETE PROFILES |
l Juliet Draper: Bodybuilding firefighter
l Helen
Carroll: Ex-Coach Fights Homophobia
l Nat Brown
- Cross-Country Ski Coach
l Ryan
Quinn - Coming Out Earns Team's Respect
l Tyler
Hoffman - Ex-Ump Faces Spring Without
Baseball
l Jordan
Goldwarg
- My Life as a Gay Collegiate Skier
l Billy
Glover
- No More
Running Away
l Paul
Farber
- No Longer Hiding
l Closeted
Basketball
Jock Struggles With Coming Out
l Reichen
Lemkuhl
- Amazing Race
l Travis
Bone - San
Diego sports reporter
l Ryan
Carrillo - pro inline skater
l Ryan Miller - pro snowboarder
l Shawn Hiatt -- pro tennis
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Deric
Peterson - Professional runner
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Andre Espaillat - Pro Motorcyclist. |
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Mike
Bryant
Researching the Gay Athlete
Mike Bryant's
research into why gay males get involved in contact sports
stems from a personal desire to see if being gay and a
jock were compatible. His conclusion: `Gay
boys can play ball.' Story
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Cale
Siler
Reaching Out With Healing Waters
Cale
Siler founded Healing Waters in 1996 when he believed he
had contracted HIV. Since then, Cale and Healing
Waters have reached out to HIV patients and touched the
lives of thousands of people. Story
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Dave
Pallone
Changing Attitudes, One Pitch at a Time
 Dave
Pallone is a former major league umpire who has felt the sting of
homophobia. He has spent the past dozen years talking on campuses
and to major corporations about diversity and sensitivity. One hook:
his famous run-in with Pete Rose. Story.
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Mark Welsh
Building A
Place For Gay Pro Athletes
 Mark
Welsh is the founder and spear-head of the only organization
for openly gay professional athletes. A triathlete
himself, he is Making A Difference
in the pro sports community. |
Ed
Gallagher
Alive
To Thrive
 Ed
Gallagher is a former football player at the University of
Pittsburgh. He's a motivational speaker and an
author. He's also a suicide attempt survivor and
paralyzed from the chest down. Since his attempt to
kill himself because he felt ashamed of being gay, Ed
Gallagher has been Making
A Difference. |
Brandon
Triche
Persevering
Through Adversity
 In many ways Brandon Triche
was your typical college senior, frazzled by pulling an all-nighter after a computer erased most of a term paper due for his communications class.
In other significant ways, though, Triche's life has been far from typical.
Telling his parents in high school that he's gay and being sent to ``about a million'' psychiatrists and pastors who tried to make him see the error of his ways.
Story |
Rudy Galindo
A Champion On and Off the Ice
 Rudy
Galindo's improbable but decisive win in the 1996 U.S.
National Figure Skating Championships taught skating fans
never to underestimate his ability to generate a comeback.
His return to his best finish
yet in the 2000 World Professional Championships left him
determined to come back to try and grab the title in 2001. Not
bad for someone HIV-positive who thought his skating days were
behind him. Story |
Lorrie Kim
Cracking Open the Closet Door in Male Figure Skating
 Kim
was an activist and journalist for LGBT issues for years
before she was a figure skating fan. It fascinated her that this overwhelmingly femme
sport was so profoundly in the closet - you've never seen so many adult men, fully gay in their
private lives, convinced not only that coming out would
destroy them -- but that the presumably clueless public would
be shattered if they knew. Story
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Dug
Funnell
Holding Up a Mirror to Baseball's Homophobia
``I love baseball, but the majority of baseball hates a faggot.''
Dug Funnell doesn't mince words. This sentence was one in a long letter
Funnell, a baseball fanatic, has sent to more than 5,000 players, managers, owners, front office officials and broadcasters in the past 15 years. It's been his way of trying to open the minds--and hearts--of those involved in the game he
loves.' Story and letters to and from
players.
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Marc Davino
Building A Community In Boston
 Since
1994, Marc Davino has been a leader in building the gay
sports community in the City of Boston. From
commissioner of the largest gay basketball league in the
world to playing on his local softball team, Marc has
dedicated much of his life to seeing that other gay men
and lesbians enjoy their lives through sport.
Marc
is Making A Difference.
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