GSW, LLC is the only NBA team and multi-use arena with openly LQBTQ top-level executives. Golden State Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts identifies as a gay man, while Chase Center General Manger Kim Stone identifies as a lesbian woman. Although both executives share the similarity of coming out late in their careers, their stories are far from identical.
At the age of 30, Kim Stone was living in Miami during her tenure at the Miami Heat. Growing up in a small, rural town in North Carolina, she struggled to digest who she was. "I think I am different from most stories,” she says.