![]() You can find copies of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue at newsstands and online by clicking here. For the record: I am gay,” she told Out magazine. Rapinoe first started pushing those boundaries when she came out in 2012, and addressed the fact that until then, nobody had ever asked if she were lesbian: “I think they were trying to be respectful and that it’s my job to say, ‘I’m gay.’ Which I am. “Stereotypes still very much persist and they are just such incomplete views of who we really are as people, so I think for that reason it’s really important to just continue to push those boundaries.” “I think our view is still way too narrow of gay people in general,” she said. So, to kind of just blow that up and and do something totally different I think is really important. “I think so often with gay females in sports there’s this particular stereotype about it and there’s such a narrow view of what it means to be gay and be athletic. “I think it’s really quite a bold statement by Sports Illustrated to be honest because it has been seen as sort of this magazine only for heterosexual males,” Rapinoe told the magazine. Special thanks to the Los Angeles Dodgers for being our lead sponsor, and to UCLA for hosting the inspiring Outsports Pride Summit. Outsports celebrated Pride, and its 20th anniversary, in Los Angeles during LA Pride, and we were blown away by all of the amazing people who made the weekend such a success. Thanks to everyone who made Outsports Pride a success! Rapinoe told SI she agreed to the shoot in hopes she could spark meaningful conversation about the LGBTQ community and help break down stereotypes. The incredible photographs were snapped on the lush Caribbean island of St. Lucia for Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue. Rapinoe, who came out in 2012 and is believed to be dating women’s basketball player Sue Bird, posed alongside other professional soccer players including her teammates Alex Morgan, Crystal Dunn and Abby Dahlkemper. In doing so, Rapinoe said she did it to expand the “narrow view” of what it means to be LGBTQ and an athlete, in a publication perceived to be “only for heterosexual males,” The team captain broke barriers by becoming the very first out gay woman included in the often celebrated, sometimes derided, annual publication. When Megan Rapinoe travels to France next month with the USWNT for her 3rd Women’s World Cup, we hope she brings along the swimsuits she wore in a historic photo shoot for Sports Illustrated.
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