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When her family purchased the Chicago Cubs, Ricketts, who also serves on the board of Lamda Legal, a national gay rights organization, became the first gay owner of a major league sports franchise in the U.S.
Cubs' Laura Ricketts makes history as first openly gay sports owner
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Laura Rickett's service on the Cubs Board of Directors should shine a new light on this male dominated professional sport.
(Windy City Media rated this former candidate contributor as 14/16 on GLBT political concerns during the 2009 5th District Congressional Special Primary Election in Chicago)
If she wasn't a lesbian, do you think the piece would have said "Laura Ricketts, who has a husband, said..." or would have omitted that information?
Omitted. It's just an interesting, yet overused, story angle. Other examples, "First woman baseball owner" or "First black coach in the super bowl." Just a fluff angle on a business story.
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