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Martina Navratilova: United States
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Lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are condemning hormone-altering experiments on "gay sheep" at Oregon State University and Oregon Health and Science University. The experiment, funded by taxpayers through 2008, seeks to manipulate sheep's sexual orientatio and make them heterosexual.
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Martina Navratilova is a long-time tennis player and former World #1 woman tennis player who has won many championships and competitions in her tennis career. Navratilova left then Czechoslovakia and moved to the United States in 1975 where she is now a citizen.
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In sixteen years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova met on the tennis court eighty times—sixty times in finals. At their first match, in 1973, Chris was an eighteen-year-old star and Martina, two years her junior, an unknown Czech on her first trip to the United States. It would be two years before Martina finally beat Chris, and another two—after Navratilova had dropped twenty pounds and improved her game—before Evert publicly betrayed her first hint of concern. By then, though, the women were already friends and sometimes doubles partners, and the story that would captivate the world was under way.
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In 1972 at the age of 15, Navratilova won the Czechoslovakia national tennis championship. In 1973, aged 16, she made her debut on the USLTA professional tour but did not turn professional until 1975. She won her first professional singles title in Orlando, Florida in 1974 at the age of 17. Navratilova first lived with former Vaudeville actress, Frances Dewey Wormser, and her husband, Morton Wormser, a major tennis enthusiast, when she first moved to the United States.[5]
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Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Martina has always proven herself to be fearless about her views and beliefs, as demonstrated in 1975 when she defected to the U.S. in order to flee the repressive regime then in power. She displayed unequalled courage, candor and conviction in 1981 when she became one of the first international sports figures to openly state that she was gay. Through her honesty, integrity and courage, Martina has inspired countless others to do the same.
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Frustrated by the Czechoslovakian Tennis Federation's interference with her career, Navratilova defected to the United States in 1975. The same year she became a leading player on the women's professional tennis tour, as she and Evert won the French Open doubles championship, Navratilova’s first major title. The next year the pair won the Wimbledon doubles championship.
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