Ten years ago, lacrosse player Andrew Goldste beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted by a profsnal sports team. Today, he's spirg a new generatn of young athlet.
Contents:
- INTRODUCG COOPER GAY
- AFTER BE AMY HIR GAY LACROSSE COACH, ABBOT WHO OVERSE SCHOOL SAYS HE IS 'DEEPLY TROUBLED'
- BE AMY PARTS WH BENEDICTE MONKS AFTER GAY ACH NTROVERSY
- CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL REHIRED A GAY ACH FOLLOWG OUTCRY OM STUNTS AND PARENTS
- ST. PROPI ABBEY CUTS TI TO BE AMY IN LISLE MONTHS AFTER SCHOOL HIR GAY LACROSSE COACH
INTRODUCG COOPER GAY
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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.
AFTER BE AMY HIR GAY LACROSSE COACH, ABBOT WHO OVERSE SCHOOL SAYS HE IS 'DEEPLY TROUBLED'
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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.
BE AMY PARTS WH BENEDICTE MONKS AFTER GAY ACH NTROVERSY
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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.
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.
CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL REHIRED A GAY ACH FOLLOWG OUTCRY OM STUNTS AND PARENTS
Be Amy Lisle hired a gay lacrosse ach last week after prevly rcdg the offer bee she is married to a woman – but a new twist, the abbey that overse the Catholic school has e down wh strong words. * cooper gay lacrosse *
" 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.
"In 2005, the gay muny didn't want to talk about sports and the sports muny didn't want to talk about gay people.
ST. PROPI ABBEY CUTS TI TO BE AMY IN LISLE MONTHS AFTER SCHOOL HIR GAY LACROSSE COACH
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