Former Kentucky Basketball Player Isaac Humphri Com Out as Gay

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• FORMER KENTUCKY PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI COM OUT AS GAY EMOTNAL VIO: 'I JT WANT TO BE MYSELF'
• FORMER KENTUCKY WILDT, PRO BASKETBALL PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS GAY
• FORMER NBA, KENTUCKY PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS ONLY ACTIVE GAY PLAYER TOP-TIER MEN'S BASKETBALL

FORMER KENTUCKY PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI COM OUT AS GAY EMOTNAL VIO: 'I JT WANT TO BE MYSELF'

Former Kentucky basketball player and current Melbourne Uned center Isaac Humphri sat down for an emotnal nversatn wh his teammat to announce he is gay. "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 am gay.

"You n be 'Big Ice' and be gay, and you n still be a great basketball player and be gay. Acrdg to CNN, Humphri is now the only active profsnal basketball player the world to e out as gay. In 2013, Jason Colls beme the first active profsnal basketball player to announce he is gay.

RELATED VIDEO: 'SNL' Star Bowen Yang on Asian Reprentatn, Breakg Barriers wh Gay Rom-Com 'Fire Island'. Isaac Humphri — a profsnal basketball player Atralia who played for the Kentucky Wildts — has e out publicly as gay an op-ed for CNN.

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

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. As each of them has found, g out sports and beg gay are not wispread problems anymore.

Melbourne Uned basketball player Isaac Humphri is the only active openly gay player a top-tier men's basketball league. He publicly shared he is gay a vio published Wednday morng Atralian time, and he jos former NBA player Jason Colls -- who announced his sexualy 2013 -- as the only players a top-tier basketball league to announce they are gay the midst of their playg reer.

FORMER NBA, KENTUCKY PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS ONLY ACTIVE GAY PLAYER TOP-TIER MEN'S BASKETBALL

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.

Colls announced he is gay April 2013, shortly after the NBA season end, and he beme the first openly gay player to appear a top-tier basketball league Febary 2014 as a member of the Nets. Isaac Humphri, former Universy of Kentucky men's basketball player, beme the only openly gay player the Natnal Basketball League, Atralia's top league.