Focus On The Rainbow

The EDGE has an article about Laura Ricketts the lesbian activist who now owns the Chicago Cubs.

A lesbian activist has acquired the Chicago Cubs–and she says that anti-gay prejudice is the last thing she’s encountered. Rather, she’s had to deal with mundane issues like the state of the facilities: real-world problems, rather than biases emanating from myths and stereotypes. Laura Ricketts, 42, and her family bought the Cubs last year, reports Chicago LGBT paper Windy City Times in a Feb. 24 article. The process involved close scrutiny from the baseball league–but nothing about it was homophobic, Ricketts told the paper. “They wanted to know all the organizations we’re involved with, where we went to school, where we invested and the jobs we’ve had,” she said. “They do a pretty extensive background check. In terms of the LGBT issue, it was never an issue at all.”

The article noted that Ricketts is politically and socially active, involved in board positions with organizations as diverse as Housing Opportunities for Women and Lambda Legal, one of the nation’s premiere legal organizations for LGBT issues. Ricketts suggested that living openly and honestly was the best strategy to countering stereotypes and misperceptions about LGBT people.

Full article at EDGE.