Sport is special for our lives, it leads us to reach our goals, it activates us, it moves us, it instructs us to have a more positive life, who did not want to have a dream, to be the best in a certain sport, it pervades us with stability in our lives and makes us believe in ourselves, it activates us, we want to achieve those dreams that at a certain moment awakens those talents that were stored in all aspects of our lives, makes us more positive people, encouragement and forward
Rick Welts just broke another barrier for the LGBTQ community in sports. Last Friday, he married his longtime partner Todd Gage at San Francisco City Hall, becoming the first known professional men’s sports executive to marry his same-sex partner. San Francisco Mayor London Breed pronounced Welts and Gage “spouses for life,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight, making the marriage official. Knight reports that everyone from NBA commissioner Adam Silver to former Warrior Kevin Durant reached out to Welts to congratulate him on the big day. Welts, a longtime exec in the NBA’s league offices, was working as president of the Suns when he met Gage, a Southwest flight attendant, on a plane. “He was -F,” Gage told Knight, who detailed their romance in her piece. In , Welts resigned from the Suns and moved to Northern California to be closer to Gage. He had lost a prior relationship over a lack of visibility, and did not want to go down that path
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