How men’s llege basketball ach told his new team he was gay - Outsports

Contents:

• COLLEGE BASKETBALL ACH OUT AS GAY, BEE ‘I DON’T WANT TO DIE WH THE LIE’
• HOW THIS MEN’S LLEGE BASKETBALL ACH TOLD HIS NEW TEAM HE WAS GAY
• MATT LYNCH IS FIRST OUT GAY HEAD ACH MEN’S LLEGE BASKETBALL

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.

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

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.

It’s important that I try and share my story and do my part to help normalize beg gay.

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

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. “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. And wh that Lynch, 30, began his new job as assistant ach at Divisn II Chowan and head ach of the velopment team, makg him the only publicly out gay men’s basketball ach the NCAA (Layne Ingram, who is transgenr, starts his third season as ach of the Lansg Communy College women’s team Michigan).