There have only been two openly gay NBA players. Jason Colls beme the first active player to e out 2013. John Amaechi me out 2007 after he retired.
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GAY PRO BASKETBALL PLAYER MAR LEHMANN OUT
Gay basketball player Mar Lehmann has e out publicly. The Swiss profsnal basketball player penned an article for which he talks about livg a dual life — happy gay man at home and miserable, closeted, wildly succsful basketball player on the urt. Every week the same old thg: my boyiend would drive me to the airport and the mute I would go through secury, the happy gay man a relatnship turned to the emotnls pro athlete, who didn’t want to talk about his personal life.
Seeg a gay male athlete e out publicly on a natnal team-sport team is exceedgly rare. There are also only a handful of gay men profsnal basketball who have been out while playg, cludg Jason Colls, Derrick Gordon and Uri Kokia. When John Amaechi me out publicly 2007, he was ahead of his time, sharg that he’s gay and a former profsnal basketball player.
THE ONLY 3 OUT, GAY NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY
Sce Colls showed the world you uld be a gay man profsnal basketball, there has been a trickle of gay athlet to follow, most recently former NBA player and current Atralian pro basketball player Isaac Humphri. Here are the gay men who have blazed a trail on basketball urts around the world. Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.
I'm a footballer and I'm gay. "He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay.