Isaac Humphri out as gay

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• FORMER KENTUCKY WILDT, PRO BASKETBALL PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS GAY
• FORMER UK BASKETBALL PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS GAY
• FORMER KENTUCKY BASKETBALL PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY

FORMER KENTUCKY WILDT, PRO BASKETBALL PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS GAY

Isaac Humphri — a profsnal basketball player Atralia who played for the Kentucky Wildts — has e out publicly as gay an op-ed for CNN. In the op-ed Humphri, 24, talks about growg up sports, Atralia and elsewhere, and never seeg other out gay men. “I was around some of the most succsful people the world – everyone om micians, televisn and film producers, media personali, A-list celebri – and got to see that beg openly gay n e wh joy.

He clared for the NBA Draft after his sophomore year wh Kentucky, gog undrafted. They appld and hug him, showg yet aga how the level of homophobia sports is simply not remotely what we’ve been told is. Humphri jos Jason Colls the NBA, Uri Kokia Israel and Mar Lehmann Swzerland as gay athlet who have e out publicly while petg profsnal basketball.

FORMER UK BASKETBALL PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS GAY

As each of them has found, g out sports and beg gay are not wispread problems anymore. Isaac Humphri, former Universy of Kentucky men's basketball player, beme the only openly gay player the Natnal Basketball League, Atralia's top league. Humphri released a vio on his Twter acunt Wednday Atralia (Tuday eveng EST) where he sat down wh his Melbourne Uned teammat and told them he is gay and attempted to take his own life a few years ago.

"You n be 'Big Ice' and be gay and you n still be a great basketball player and be gay, " he told his teammat.

FORMER KENTUCKY BASKETBALL PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY

"And the ma reason behd me beg so low and beg that pot is bee I was very much stgglg wh my sexualy and g to terms wh the fact that I'm gay, he said. "He said he eventually found a muny "full of pri and happs and joy" and cid when he joed a new team he would publicly e out as gay to be an example gay players "don't have to hi jt bee you're an athlete. "In a gut lumn on CNN, Humphri expand on his announcement, sayg he did not feel he uld exist as an "openly gay man while playg basketball.