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Sheryl Swoopes comes out
ESPN The Magazine ^
| October 26, 2005
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Posted on 10/27/2005 12:32:52 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
Houston Comets forward Sheryl Swoopes is opening up about being a lesbian, telling a magazine that she's "tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about."
About her reason for coming out, Sheryl Swoopes said, 'I'm tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. About the person I love.' Swoopes, honored last month as the WNBA's Most Valuable Player, told ESPN The Magazine for a story on newsstands Wednesday that she didn't always know she was gay and fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model.
"Do I think I was born this way? No," Swoopes said. "And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are."
Swoopes, who was married and has an 8-year-old son, said her 1999 divorce "wasn't because I'm gay."
She said her reason for coming out now is merely because she wants to be honest.
"It's not something that I want to throw in people's faces. I'm just at a point in my life where I'm tired of having to pretend to be somebody I'm not," the 34-year-old Swoopes said. "I'm tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. About the person I love."
A release from ESPN The Magazine about the story did not disclose the identity of Swoopes' partner.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: lesbian; swoopes
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"Do I think I was born this way? No," Swoopes said. "And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are." The queers ( there word not mine) won't be happy about this. It pokes a hole in the "nature" theory. She's new to "the life" or she would know she's NEVER allowed to promote any theory but NATURE for homosexuality. She had better learn to start saying she was born queer or she will be an outcast in the "oh so progressive, accepting and loving" gay community.
To: jmaroneps37
I rented a good video last night....
Lesbian Amazons.
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:34:10 PM PDT
by
Pondman88
To: jmaroneps37
To: jmaroneps37
To: Pondman88
Lesbian Thespians...is a good one too.
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:35:18 PM PDT
by
in hoc signo vinces
("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
To: in hoc signo vinces
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS No I didn't, and I wish I hadn't. It's lame.
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:37:08 PM PDT
by
Casloy
To: Pondman88
GET LOST BOYS
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:37:14 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Father of the beeber)
To: jmaroneps37
Would it shock the system to discover that MOST of the WNBA are lesbians?
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:37:38 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: in hoc signo vinces
To: Casloy
Its not lame... it is gay.
To: jmaroneps37
Howard Stern got high ratings using lesbians.
Perhaps Davis Stern should have him run the WNBA?
To: jmaroneps37
Lesbians in the WNBA? I'm shocked... Shocked, I tell you!
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:40:40 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
To: jmaroneps37
"fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model."
Gee, ya think?
BUT AT LEASY we have a 'mo who admits she wasn't "born" this way.
Thats something...
kinda...
[Say, how WAS that video...}
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:41:09 PM PDT
by
Adder
(Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
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To: Adder
Note to self;;;
SPELL CHECK is your friend.
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:42:30 PM PDT
by
Adder
(Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
To: robertpaulsen
It's all about what pleases her, and screw everyone else.Interesting choice of words there.
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:43:05 PM PDT
by
You Dirty Rats
(Lashed to the USS George W. Bush: Glub Glub Glub)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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posted on
10/27/2005 12:46:05 PM PDT
by
Types_with_Fist
(I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
To: jmaroneps37
"My career is almost over and I'm not getting any attention."
About as newsworthy as the Astros not having any blacks.
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
A few years ago, a talk show was making hay out of Shep's JLo faux pas. A caller said he once worked at FL tv station
when Smith paying his dues. "It was common knowledge..." was his contribution.
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