Rick Welts
... that Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts became the first prominent American sports executive to come out as gay when he did so in an interview with The New York Times on May 15, 2011?
... that <a href="./Phoenix_Suns" id="mwA-0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a> president and CEO <b id="mwA-4"><a href="./Rick_Welts" id="mwA-8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rick Welts">Rick Welts</a></b> became the first prominent American sports executive to <a href="./Coming_out" id="mwA_A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coming out">come out as gay</a> when he did so in an interview with <i id="mwA_E"><a href="./The_New_York_Times" id="mwA_I" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> on <span about="#mwt31" class="nowrap" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"nowrap","href":"./Template:Nowrap"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"May 15"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwA_M" typeof="mw:Transclusion">May 15</span>, 2011?