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Four years ago this month, Chris Burns beme the first ach NCAA Divisn 1 men’s basketball to e out as gay an exclive say on Outsports.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL ACH OUT AS GAY, BEE ‘I DON’T WANT TO DIE WH THE LIE’

I’m gay. I didn’t thk about beg gay or that part of me as much.

I worked so hard to shut off that si of my life, that I built up a sort of self-homophobia. I don’t know why I assumed beg gay was wrong, but I tried to jt be “normal” (that is, straight). Beg gay weighed on my md, day and night, more and more.

The note explaed that I was gay. I didn’t want to be known as the “Gay Basketball Coach. We had some small talk for a while and then I got to the pot and jt me out wh : “I’m gay.

HOW THIS MEN’S LLEGE BASKETBALL ACH TOLD HIS NEW TEAM HE WAS GAY

It’s important that I try and share my story and do my part to help normalize beg gay. I don’t know if I will be able to get another llege basketball job as an openly gay ach, but I refe to take any job where I am not my thentic self.

MATT LYNCH IS FIRST OUT GAY HEAD ACH MEN’S LLEGE BASKETBALL

“Havg to ‘e out’ n sometim be a daily occurrence, ” said Lynch, who had been publicly out as a gay basketball ach sce April 2020. I uld jt wa and let them fd out on their own, but beg gay and sports, bed wh my own personaly, sometim n take a while to get the pot across. Lynch uld not assume his players knew that their new assistant ach at Chowan Universy North Carola was gay.

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