“I think that intersectionality is critical to everybody’s success,” Taylor said when I asked about this. “I will say that racial justice, voting rights, those are also LGBTQ+ related issues. “One is not mutually exclusive to the other,” Taylor continued, “but certainly the movement at large would want to see explicit goals and objectives working towards advancement of LGBTQ+ rights, protections, and partnerships.” James Cadogan is the executive director for the NBA’s new coalition. He told me, “It’s not like the NBA community’s LGBTQ support and advocacy has gone anywhere — it’s just that the work on racial justice, as seen through criminal justice, voting rights and policing reform, has been sharpened and crystallized into our coalition.”