Martina Navratilova talks to The Advocate about beating breast cancer, climbing Kilimanjaro, and never, ever quitting.
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March 8, 2011 (LOS ANGELES) — In The Advocate's April 2011 edition, tennis legend Martina Navratilova talks about bouncing back from her breast cancer treatments, the fear she faced while making her Kilimanjaro climb, and the future—and future leaders—of the gay rights movement.
Navratilova struggled through 2010, having battled breast cancer, broken a wrist, faced a brutal lawsuit from her former partner, and, as plastered across the media, ended her trek up Mount Kilimanjaro with a high-altitude pulmonary edema scare and an emergency descent. "Goodbye 2010," she wrote on her website at year's end, continuing, "If you were a fish, I'd through you back."
Despite all her troubles, Navratilova has remained an activist LGBT equality. In an era when you're still unlikely to learn in an American classroom of times when coming-out stories of celebrities did not automatically garner a magazine cover, Navratilova feels the younger generation needs to take ownership of the movement. "I do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event and there's a 25-year-old and he has no idea who I am," Navratilova says. "And I say, 'You need to know more about your gay history, boy.' I think the younger generation takes it a little bit for granted."
Find out what Navratilova had to say about one news network reporting she "quit" her Mount Kilimanjaro attempt, her personal legal troubles, what's written about her in the press, and whether she would have done anything differently in her career in the April 2011 issue of The Advocate.
