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NBA Hall of FamerDennis Rodman, 62, celebrated Pride Month in Houston on Saturday with a surprise appearance at the city’s 45th annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade.
“Love will Always Win🌈Happy Pride#gaypride#loveislove#pridemonth,”Rodman wrote on Instagram, alongside two photos and a video clip showing him greeting parade-goers at the downtown event.
The colorful former athlete wore a plaid green pleated miniskirt and a shirt from his Rodman Apparel line, featuring his 90s-era visage which sported once-controversial rainbow hair.
The retired forward, who played on the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks over 14 seasons from 1986-2000 — has long been a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community.
“It’s amazing that we are showing love to the gay community that we love,“Rodman told ABC13while walking the parade route. “They are showing love for the gay community and love for the world.”
“Do your research guys,”he wroteover a collection of photos which showed him dressed in then-envelope-pushing outfits, including hisinfamous wedding dress, #beenhim.”
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“They didn’t know the fact that when [they] shot that cover for the Sports Illustrated that that was the best-sellingSports Illustratedever,” Rodman said. “And then the gay community started to reach out to me and said, ‘Wow, we never knew that our community can be represented like that in sports.’ And people didn’t know at the time that I was doing that.”
source: people.com
