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- UMASS GUARD DERRICK GORDON BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE D-I BASKETBALL PLAYER
- UMASS BASKETBALL PLAYER ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
- UMASS BASKETBALL PLAYER ANNOUNC HE’S GAY
UMASS GUARD DERRICK GORDON BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE D-I BASKETBALL PLAYER
Derrick Gordon, the first openly gay player Divisn I men’s basketball, is happy to fd his g out barely a ripple at UMass. * gay umass basketball player *
After a year of isolatn, gay UMass basketball player Derrick Gordon disvered the strength to share his tth wh fay and teammat. Last Wednday, at the requt of redshirt sophomore shootg guard Derrick Gordon, Universy of Massachetts men’s basketball head ach Derek Kellogg lled a team meetg. Two weeks after his team’s upset loss to Tennsee the NCAA tournament, Gordon had a secret he wanted to share wh them, one that a week’s time he would share wh the world: He’s gay.
“I jt wanted you all to know, ” Kellogg said, “I’m gay.
But the last month, spendg time wh other gay people sports, somethg different had sudnly driven him to share his secret: Hope. That was all nearly railed when Gordon’s then-boyiend last summer posted a photograph on Instagram of the two of them ont of a gay bar on the New Jersey ast. Gordon was wary of the post but figured there was ltle chance someone would stumble across the photo on a random Instagram acunt and intify him and said gay bar.
UMASS BASKETBALL PLAYER ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
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Wh hours, some of his teammat asked him if he were gay. The “gay” label lgered. ” Darryl hasn’t seen his brother play basketball sce his sophomore year high school.
“I was jt aaid that if I was to go to a party or a gay club Boston, someone might spot me. Gordon did feel safe New York Cy, where he would venture out to gay clubs. He spent this past New Year’s Eve the gay clubs of Manhattan – gettg no sleep and takg two tras to get there – simply to be an environment where he felt he uld be himself, anonymoly.
A uple tim the last year someone did regnize him a gay bar, drivg him eper to the closet and prsn. The first cracks the straight faça me last year when a mutual iend troduced Gordon to Davis, a gay former NFL Player and You Can Play project executive director.
UMASS BASKETBALL PLAYER ANNOUNC HE’S GAY
I don’t thk he had that on his team, and he hadn’t met other gay mal whom he uld nnect wh. In that time he has gotten a unique glimpse to the liv of gay men sports who are livg life openly.
Jog them were former ESPN rad host Jared Max and Snrs High School basketball ach Anthony Nimo, who had e out as gay himself a year earlier. Sudnly Gordon found himself surround by openly gay men var rners of sports, all of whom were publicly out. While Gordon said he had read about gay athlet on Outsports for years, meetg the people – talkg wh them and lghg wh them over the last month – has been a revelatn.