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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
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UMASS BASKETBALL PLAYER ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
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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.
UMASS BASKETBALL PLAYER ANNOUNC HE’S GAY
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. 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.