“I am a foremost civil rights activist”

Yea I kinda doubt you are “foremost a civil rights activist” if you're trying to downplay the discrimination LGBT folk have dealt with in this country.

What in the world does “I am a foremost civil rights activist” mean?

Because many men wouldn’t do what he did. That's why it’s news. Women are expected to give up careers for the family men aren’t so it’s shocking a news worthy in our sexist society when men do.

“Lauren Holiday has 50,000 more Twitter followers than her husband.”

You see so many negative portrayals of professional athletes in the news, and when its positive its a charity type thing that feels forced. So an article like this in which someone is doing the right thing because their are more important things in their life than their sport of choice is refreshing.

He has his priorities right in my opinion