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Out tennis legends Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King are some of the first inductees to the newly opened National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame, based in Chicago, reports Gay News Network.

The Emmy-winning Glee star will join headliners Sting and Patti LuPone at Uprising of Love, a benefit featuring Laverne Cox, Billy Porter, and Chely Wright.

"The athletes who have the most to derive from it" should be the ones to decide if a boycott of the Winter Olympic in Sochi, Russia is appropriate, says the out tennis legend.

The Talk co-host delivered a rousing speech for LGBT rights at the Lambda Legal West Coast Liberty Awards.

The 2012 London Summer Olympics begins July 27th. While we all know that homophobia in sports is the other "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, twenty-one openly LGBTQ athletes, two coaches and two gay paralympians will compete for the gold. Three LGBTQ olympians will represent the U.S. -Seimone Augustus (basketball), Megan Rapinoe (soccer), and Lisa Raymond (doubles tennis).