away, we have robbie rogers who is openly gay. he could be at the world cup maybe. do you think in three years time, we might have a male gay athlete playing at the world cup ? [indiscernible] think we could have something like that in russia or is it still too far away in terms of gender equality? lori: it is tough to say. it is exciting for me to talk hugging andombak kissing her partner, having one of the best tournaments of her career so far. i think that was inspired by her coming out and being true to herself. is, weortunate thing still have a ways to go in terms of, as i mentioned earlier, nigeria and russia, fear of persecution if they come out, -- soabout being gay, or i think we still unfortunately have a way to go. i'm only speaking about my experiences. which ay is a platform bunch of us players in the u.s. team are involved in. that is a platform to speak about advocacy and a quality. but you don't see that in a lot of other countries. even though that's exciting on one end, it is still quite unfortunate on another. i think it is hard to say. i would sa

three years away, we have robbie rogers who is openly gay. he could be at the world cup maybe. do you think in three years time, we might have a male gay athlete playing at the world cup? [indiscernible] do you think we could have something like that in russia or is it still too far away in terms of gender equality? lori: it is tough to say. it is exciting for me to talk about abbi wombak hugging and kissing her partner, having one of the best tournaments of her career so far. i think that was inspired by her coming out and being true to herself. the unfortunate thing is, we still have a ways to go in terms of, as i mentioned earlier, nigeria and russia, fear of persecution if they come out, speak about being gay, or -- so i think we still unfortunately have a way to go. i'm only speaking about my experiences. it really is a platform which a bunch of us players in the u.s. team are involved in. that is a platform to speak about advocacy and a quality. but you don't see that in a lot of other countries. even though that's exciting on one end, it is still quite unfortunate on ano

we have the robbie rogers openly gay could be at world cup. do you think in three years time, a male gay athlete playing at world cup, even have that abby wambach event where black players raised their wrist and speak out on equality? do you think we have that in russia or still too far away in terms of gender equality in man's game? >> it is tough nor me to say. it is exciting for abby woman back hugging and kisses her partner or rupino having one of the best tournaments in her career and coming out being true to herself. unfortunate thing is, that that we still have aways to go as i mentioned earlier nigeria and russia fear of persecution if they come out to speak about being gay or, so i think we still, unfortunately have a way to go. i'm only speak about my experiences with the u.s. national team and it really is a platform, aided with athlete ally which bunch of athletes on the u.s. team are involved with, that encourages us to have a platform to speak about advocacy and speak about equality. but you don't he see that in a lot of other co

robbie rogers in major league soccer, jason collins in the nba, michael sam in the nfl and denson isessional baseball player playing for a team affiliated with a major league club. now the way denson actually came out to his teammates is pretty unique. according to the sentinel, one of his teammates jokingly referred to him using a derogatory term for a gay male and denson responded with a smile saying, well, be careful what you say, you never know. denson then went on to make the announcement to everyone on the team, and denson said the outcome was amazing and that everyone was very supportive of him, and brewers superstar ryan braun recently talked about this. he applauded the move and added that a gay player would be accepted at the major league level. >> it's a courageous move on his part. it's never easy to be the first one, first active player to come out in a situation like that. it's definitely a big step for baseball, i think a big step for sports, and hopefully people judge him based on his ability and not his race, religion, ethnicity, or sexuality. >> throughout this proc