Europe's leading lesbian monthly - DIVA - hit the stores this week with a special sports issue, including an exclusive interview with tennis legend Martina Navratilova.
It's one of her very first interviews since announcing to the world her battle with cancer. She discusses her experience, saying: “I’ve had some stress in my life in the last three years, with the law suit and my mum dying a couple of years ago. I’m just glad she isn’t here to go through it, because that would stress her out. On the other hand, if she hadn’t died, perhaps I wouldn’t be going through all this now. Who knows what all the contributing factors are? I don’t feel sorry for myself or stress over things too much. This might have happened if I’d been sitting in a convent doing nothing. Who knows?”
Everyones top lesbian tennis player and Wimbledon winner also discussed homophobia within sport with the mag, saying: “I’ve always encouraged people to come out, but it’s tricky for public people, you know? Nobody wants to go back in the closet, but it does change your life and are you ready for that? Well now it’s less so, but it was in every article – lesbian tennis player – that was part of my description. They don’t say that about straight people. That’s one of the big things they think about when they see you, and who wants that? It is changing, slowly. Nothing needs to change; it just needs to keep going in the same direction.”
The new issue of Diva is out this week and available from select newsagents in the UK and Europe.
Aaron Alex
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