Gay Dartmouth Athlete Is Runng A Marathon For A Great Cse | HuffPost Voic

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• GAY DARTMOUTH TENNIS PLAYER WANTS MORE MEN’S PLAYERS TO E OUT TO CREASE VISIBILY
• OPENLY GAY DARTMOUTH NNER PAYS FORWARD
• GAY DARTMOUTH ATHLETE OVERME MAJOR PRSN, NOW NNG MARATHON FOR AT-RISK LGBT YOUTH
• BEG OPENLY GAY DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS
• GAY DARTMOUTH ATHLETE IS RUNNG A MARATHON FOR A GREAT CSE
• GAY DARTMOUTH ATHLETE PET IRONMAN TRIATHLON TO RAISE MONEY FOR PULSE VICTIMS
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
• WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM

GAY DARTMOUTH TENNIS PLAYER WANTS MORE MEN’S PLAYERS TO E OUT TO CREASE VISIBILY

Gay Dartmouth tennis player wants more men’s players to e out to crease visibily.

I thk that ia of beg myself stuck wh me as I started to realize I was gay.

While I was disappoted to never have the chance to play a llege match as an openly gay athlete, g out has certaly had a posive impact on other areas of my life. My goal wrg this is to ntue to crease the visibily of gay athlet, pecially men’s tennis.

OPENLY GAY DARTMOUTH NNER PAYS FORWARD

But by the sprg of his sophomore year, he found that he had grown tired of his fa. The middle distance nner cid was time to e out, and the opportuny arose wh the school's May 2013 "Celebratn of Excellence" durg his sophomore year, where 1, 000 Dartmouth College stunt-athlet gather to appld the year's athletic achievements.

Woodbury had been asked to troduce the school's "You Can Play" vio, part of a social activism mpaign to eradite homophobia sports.

He announced to the crowd that he was gay, exhsted om hidg that part of himself.

GAY DARTMOUTH ATHLETE OVERME MAJOR PRSN, NOW NNG MARATHON FOR AT-RISK LGBT YOUTH

Eventually, he plans to relote to the San Francis Bay Area, bee an openly gay CEO, a hband, and a father, and lead the way global iativ for clean energy.

BEG OPENLY GAY DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS

Marty Maguire: Have you ever experienced or observed homophobia while playg sports? Rex Woodbury: While playg high school sports Arizona, was pretty mon to hear people joke around g gay slurs or sayg thgs like, "That's so gay. I jt always associated the word "gay" wh weakns and ferry.

GAY DARTMOUTH ATHLETE IS RUNNG A MARATHON FOR A GREAT CSE

Sayg, "That's so gay" would never fly here whout someone llg you out on .

Marty Maguire: Are there any aspects of beg a gay athlete that are jt pla awkward? Rex Woodbury: A lot of people thk that beg gay and gog to the locker room is awkward.

Somethg I try to get across to people is that a gay teammate the locker room is thkg about the same thgs they are: a naggg jury, the loomg workout, the next petn.

GAY DARTMOUTH ATHLETE PET IRONMAN TRIATHLON TO RAISE MONEY FOR PULSE VICTIMS

But that improved over time as everyone grew more fortable wh havg a gay teammate. Marty Maguire: Dcribe life as a gay man at Dartmouth general? People will ll you out on a gay or racial slur.

It was great to have our athletic teams, ach, and admistrators there to hear Hudson Taylor speak about homophobia sports. I'd been asked to troduce the "You Can Play" vio that Dartmouth ma, a vio batg homophobia sports.

I'm gay. Society tells that you n't be athletic, mascule, and also gay.

OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

Or perhaps your volvement wh stunt groups was more stmental to your growth as a young gay man? Furthermore, did you have any mentors your personal life who helped your velopment as a young gay man?

I thk he was a pneer as a gay athlete, and he's a great example of beg open and hont wh teammat and ach. I hope that the next , profsnal athlet n be openly gay and younger kids n feel more fortable beg hont and open wh teammat and ach. Marty Maguire: Any ncerns about beg a gay man the fance or bs world?

GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM

The All-Amerin goalie had stggled wh his sexualy sce he was 7, and like so many gay and transgenr kids, had ntemplated suici. '"Earlier this year, another young lacrosse player realized that he was gay. "There's nothg wrong wh beg gay, " Braen rpond, "bee I am gay.

Playg the celt of ccibl, the Syrace Carrier Dome, before 25, 000 fans, Dartmouth College's sophomore lacrosse goalie somehow has plucked Michael Sprger's pot-blank shot out of the air and starts sprtg up the curly open left sile. "As Goldste would say later, "I gus tak a gay goalie to have enough balls to sre the NCAA tournament.

But early his sophomore year at Milton Amy, his Massachetts hometown, he told a iend, was liberatg, even thrillg, but Goldste's secret stayed between the two until July 2003, two months after he sred that groundbreakg goal at Syrace.

WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM

He worried that on the team's first road trip that the "unlucky guys who had to be my roommat would pla about sleepg the same room as the homo.

" He wonred if anybody would s next to him on the team, however, several teammat approached him to apologize for homophobic language and off-lor-jok om the past.

A handful of notable profsnal team-sport athlet had e out after their reers end and, to be sure, there were a number of openly gay athlet dividual sports at the Divisn I, II and III levels. Still, the 5-foot-10, 170-pound goalie was, the sports work nclud after rearchg the ntext, the most acplished male, team-sport athlete North Ameri to be openly gay durg his playg that year he was drafted by the Boston Canons of Major League Lacrosse and eventually played for the Long Island a before Amerin soccer player Robbie Rogers played for the Los Angel Galaxy of Major League Soccer, prr to Jason Colls steppg on the urt for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, before Michael Sam, a Missouri fensive end, me out advance of the 2014 NFL draft, there was Andrew Goldste. "Andrew was the first openly gay male athlete to be drafted by a profsnal sports league the Uned Stat, " said Cyd Zeigler, -founr of "And then he beme the first to play a profsnal sports league.