Transitions.

CAME OUT

THOMAS ROBERTS, a CNN Headline News anchor, while speaking on a panel at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association annual conference in Miami, September 8. The following week he was reassigned to a field reporter position, but the network and Roberts said that had nothing to do with his remarks at the conference. CNN said it was canceling the late-afternoon broadcast Roberts coanchored because of budgetary considerations.

DIED

ANN RICHARDS, 73, Texas's governor from 1991 to 1995, of esophageal cancer, September 13, in Austin. The feisty, old-fashioned liberal appointed more openly gay people to state offices than any prior Texas governor.

RETIRED

MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, 49, from professional tennis after winning the U.S. Open mixed-doubles championship, September 9, in New York City. Although she had retired from singles competition in 1994, Navratilova resumed playing doubles in 2000 and ultimately won 178 doubles crowns (in addition to her 167 singles victories).

HIRED

JEFFREY NIELSEN, a Brigham Young University professor who was let go in June for criticizing the Mormon Church's opposition to marriage equality in a newspaper op-ed, at two Utah colleges. It was reported September 18.