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Rick Welts - new COO & President of the Golden State Warriors, former President & CEO of the Phoenix Suns, and the first senior sports executive to come out - joins the NOH8 Campaign and speaks about the importance of straight athletes in combating homophobia in sports.

As 2011 comes to a close, we reflect on the past year of activism and prepare ourselves for the long journey ahead as we enter into the election year of 2012.

I heard about the NOH 8 shoot the morning of the event. I was bound and determined to make it in for a picture. I was always bullied for being gay throughout elementary school, junior high and part of high school. I don't understand the hate that people are raised with and why they continue on that sort of behavior. Being gay does not define me as a person , it's simply

I posed for the NOH8 Campaign because I believe in equal rights for everyone. I am straight and it breaks my heart that people in my life that I love are treated as second class citizens because of whom they love. After the passage of Prop 8 I got involved with several grass root efforts to overturn the proposition. I will continue to stand up for equal rights and fight for the right to marry for all people until we are victorious.

I posed for NOH 8 for equality for all people. Me and my husband had to go to another state just to get married. While our marriage is valid in another state, it is invalid in Texas . We should all be able to get married to the person we love, no matter what the gender or sexual orientation. We are not second class!!! -Hal W. Dallas Open Photo Shoot