Are The Lesbian Doubles Champions Renee Stubbs & Lisa Raymond Back Together?
This week the WTA Tour stop this week is at the masters event in Cincinnati Ohio. I just noticed that the lesbian doubles champions Renee Stubbs and Lisa Raymond are competing together again! I think this is a positive sign for gay and lesbians to see Lisa and Renee on the tennis court.
I admire Lisa and Renee for not hiding their homosexuality and their romantic relationship. It is such a joke that the male tennis players refuse to come out of the closet.
I can name several lesbian tennis champions yet Bill Tilden is only male tennis champion that was openly gay. Tennis is an individual sport, so a male tennis player has nothing to fear by coming out of the closet.
I think this is the reason I admire the lesbians on the WTA Tour so much. Straight people utilize their heterosexism when they dismiss the importance of coming out of the closet in professional sports. I am tired of hearing the straights say “being gay doesn’t matter”. Of course, the fact remains sexuality matters a lot in pro sports. Heterosexuality is utilized to sell tickets, obtain sponsors, and maintain the acceptance of the general public. Whenever I watch tennis, the cameras always focus on the supermodel girlfriend or boyfriend of a pro tennis player. Heterosexuality is not just assumed it seems on the ATP Tour there is a silent code it must be maintained.
However, on the WTA Tour it is well known that a lesbian doubles network exists between the female tennis players. Some lesbian couples play doubles together because it just makes sense. The WTA Tour can be a lonely place, but when two women fall in love they start to play doubles because they get to spend more time together.
For instance, back in the mid 1990s, the Spanish tennis champion Conchita Martinez and her girlfriend Gigi Fernandez played doubles together.
Fernandez and Martinez are no longer together, but even the 1990s the mainstream media constantly talked about their lesbian relationship. Wouldn’t it be nice if a famous male doubles team was openly gay? I think men’s tennis would be more popular if gay and bisexual men finally came out of the closet.
The gay movement needs more top male tennis players to come out of the closet to increase the gay visibility.
I imagine on the ATP Tour the some of the top male doubles teams are probably gay and bisexual anyway.
Can you imagine if Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal were openly gay and their boyfriends cheered them on during their tennis matches? Now this would be a true moment of diversity in professional sports!
On the WTA Tour, the other women don’t care that Lisa Raymond and Renee Stubbs are lesbians. The female tennis players accept the lesbian tennis players.
I guess on the ATP Tour, the men are a bit more immature and fear about their masculinity being challenged. It would be nice if some top male tennis players would just come out of the closet. Someone at the top of the men’s tennis tour needs to come out to challenge the stereotype that gay men can’t be top athletes.
The disparity between the WTA Tour and the ATP Tour in relation to homosexuality is a complete joke. The imbalance doesn’t make much sense. There has to be some male tennis champions that are gay or bisexual this is a fact of life.
Meanwhile, I am not sure if Lisa and Renee are dating again? However, it is nice to see that Lisa and Renee decided to play doubles together. I wonder why? The rumours I heard is, after Lisa and Renee broke up a couple of years ago that they were finished. It is sweet to see Lisa and Renee competing together they are very talented doubles players. Welcome back ladies!
Gayblackcanada 
Maybe the top male players aren’t gay? Not everyone is in the closet. Federer is married with 2 kids, Nadal, Murray have girlfriends and the list goes on.
I disagree, I find it hard to believe that the only gay male tennis champion in history is Bill Tilden. The 1920s was almost a century ago and no other man is gay no way! Also, so what if a man has a wife or a girlfriend it doesn’t mean a man can’t be bisexual. Haven’t you heard about men on the down low?
Here’s what I don’t understand, and perhaps you can explain it to me. The majority of homosexual people that I have had occasion to come into contact with on a one-on-one basis, their homosexuality has never even been a point of discussion. OK, they may be at an event with their partner – so we can establish by inferrence that they are, in fact, gay. It’s not a topic of conversation. My friend Will is a hairdresser and likes dogs, so I think of Will as my dog loving, hairdresser friend. On the other hand, the public face of the “homosexual community” for lack of a better term, is “I’m loud and I’m proud and I’m gay”. Well, now I have a problem with that. Not because I have an issue with gay people, but because they are making their homosexuality such a big part of their identity. That is rather sad in my opinion – that such a small part of their existence – their sexuality – is magnified to become such a big part of who they are. After all, my heterosexuality is waaaaay down on the list of things that identify me. In some ways, some homosexuals are as responsible as anyone else for the perpetuation of homosexuals as a separate class of people. I mean there will always be some ignorant bigots who choose to persecute gays because of their own deep-seated insecurities, just as there will always be anti-semites, but by putting someone’s sexuality “out there” means that they are making themselves an easy target. By way of comparison, you don’t see Jewish pride parades. It’s fine to accept who you are and what your sexual preference is, but why the sense of pride in that? I’m heterosexual and it is what it is. Not proud of it, it just is. So you are a woman married to another woman – or man to a man – the question is, when you die, what is going to be engraved on your tombstone? John Smith, gay man? Or John Smith, loving husband. That’s what’s important. I think a lot of resistance to gay marriage with just dissolve if you take the sexuality issue out of the equation. I’m a man that loves this other man, that’s the key issue at stake, not what happens in the bedroom. I guess what I’m trying to say is that some homosexuals – and I’m trying to be extremely careful here, because most of my gay friends and relatives aren’t like this – but some, actually revel and make a career out of being the victim, searching out articles and issues that highlight the plight of homosexuals in America. My gay friends and relatives actually lead a quite normal life. Some are upset that their home states forbid gay marriage, but otherwise, they live quite contented lives and don’t have much occasion to complain about being discriminated against because for them, their sexuality is not that big a deal. Sorry to sound like I’m ranting, but I’m really trying to understand here.
It’s not a big deal to you, because you are not gay and have not been oppressed because of it/for it your entire life. Better your bottom dollar that if that happened to you on a regular basis you bet it would be a big deal–a very big deal.
Your “sorry to sound like I’m ranting” “It’s not that big a deal” is ignorant, flat-out stupid and lacking in any real thought outside of your own reality.
You are far too simple.
Sincerely,
A straight person appalled by how dumb you are
bill tilden was not just gay but he was a pedophile and that is documented