Tennis icon Billie Jean King reflects on coming out, gay players in sport
Posted on February 22, 2009
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Ten years after the 1999 Australian Open, where Amelie Mauresmo publicly acknowledged that she is a lesbian, Billie Jean King spoke to TENNIS.com about her own rocky coming out nearly three decades ago. King, the first prominent athlete to come out, was forced to do so after she was outed in a 1981 palimony suit filed by her ex-lover. See Tennis icon Billie Jean King reflects on coming out, gay players in sport
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