Wnipeg’s Keystone Rabow Curlg League hosts the 11th Canadian Gay Curlg Champnships
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- MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
- GAY CURLER OUT PUBLICLY THE MIDDLE OF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP N
MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
Canadian curler Dt Kidby has taken the opportuny of his petn the Brier — Canada’s curlg natnal champnship — to talk to the media for the first time about beg gay the sport he lov, an terview wh CBC Sports. Last month he even peted the Canadian Gay Curlg Champnship Montreal. So while this is the first time he’s talked to the media about beg gay, he’s talked to people the sport about plenty.
TORONTO — It has been over five years sce curler John Eppg told fay, iends, and peers his sport’s muny that he was gay. Eppg knew there was growg tert his story about beg a gay athlete a men’s team sport, but held off on sharg the news more wily as he didn’t want to be a distractn for his team.
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GAY CURLER OUT PUBLICLY THE MIDDLE OF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP N
The number of active ele male athlet who have revealed that they’re gay has risen recent years, although ’s still a rary at the profsnal level and the curlg world.
"On that end, I thk I (should be) my prime the next four or five — or eight years hopefully — I hope people see that as a good thg or a posive thg, that there’s a gay athlete out their sport, their prime. Gay curlg leagu are que popular throughout the untry and the 12th edn of the Canadian gay curlg champnship is on tap next month Montreal. "We’ve never thought of John as a gay athlete.