Olympian Megan Rapinoe has been named
Sports Star of the Year by gay entertainment website
GregInHollywood.com.
The 27-year-old Rapinoe scored three
goals and four assists for the U.S. women's soccer team at the 2012
Summer Olympics held in London, England.
She announced her sexual orientation
shortly before heading to the Olympics in an interview with gay
glossy Out, making her one of
less than two dozen openly gay athletes to compete in the summer
Olympics.
“I
think it's just nice to be open, there's no more sort of omitting
anything,” she
said. “It's living my life as an open book which is really
nice.”
“I'd
been thinking about it for about a year. It kind of got to the point
in my life where it was, 'Why am I not out?' It's an important
thing. It's important to me and I think it's important in general.
I think my fans knew that I was gay and accepted me anyway and I
think now it's even been more of an embrace and more people have
accepted me. I guess it's just my rose colored glasses but I thought
it was going to be positive.”