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APNewsBreak: WNBA to Market to LGBT Community
AP ^ | May 21, 2014 | DOUG FEINBERG

Posted on 05/21/2014 7:59:49 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Amid a surge of public opinion in favor of gay rights in the U.S., the WNBA is launching a campaign to market the league to the LGBT community, becoming the first pro sports league to specifically recruit gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender fans to its games.

With the marketing campaign, the WNBA is capitalizing on what it has known for years: The community makes up a significant portion of its fan base. The difference now is that the league is talking about it publicly and making it a deliberate part of its marketing strategy.

The launch of the effort coincides with a surge of political and legal advances for the gay-rights movement in the U.S., and shifting public opinion behind many of those advances.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: homosexuals; wnba
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To: ConservativeStatement

A relationship made to order...
Next, women’s softball....just sayin’....


61 posted on 05/22/2014 4:12:04 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: matginzac

They will let males in a dress play in the WNBA??


62 posted on 05/22/2014 4:15:10 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Gene Eric
Are you saying the dykes are not on top?

Missionary position is so...yesterday. :^)

63 posted on 05/22/2014 5:27:07 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: GeronL

Doubt it....
You have to have the “lady parts” which you will never use as they are supposed to be used and yet high five and slap butt like a guy...
Not as a guy...me thinks.


64 posted on 05/22/2014 3:44:49 PM PDT by matginzac
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