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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

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.

AFTER BE AMY HIR GAY LACROSSE COACH, ABBOT WHO OVERSE SCHOOL SAYS HE IS 'DEEPLY TROUBLED'

"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

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.

" 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.

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL REHIRED A GAY ACH FOLLOWG OUTCRY OM STUNTS AND PARENTS

"In 2005, the gay muny didn't want to talk about sports and the sports muny didn't want to talk about gay people. You n no longer say that gay men all jt want to listen to show tun. "The ESPN profile won a televisn journalism award om the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.

"In 2013 Goldste was enshred the gural class of Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame, joed by, among others, Marta Navratilova, Billie Jean Kg and Greg GoldsteToday, at 32, Goldste seems fortable his own sk.

"I would notice that a lot of people would make, like, homosexual jok, " he explas. And then I realized that I was gay. "They all say the same thg -- are you gay?

ST. PROPI ABBEY CUTS TI TO BE AMY IN LISLE MONTHS AFTER SCHOOL HIR GAY LACROSSE COACH

"So we go to Braen's room and ask him, 'Are you gay? One boy at his school told Braen he was gog to hell bee beg gay wasn't mentned the Bible.

"Stt had found the statistics on-le: The suici rate for gay teens is thought to be four tim the natnal average. "Makg a nnectnFive weeks after Braen me out, on March 16, the Lang found Andrew remembered seeg a televisn piece on a gay lacrosse player and wh a few mut she had Googled the ESPN feature. On the day before the 2015 Divisn I lacrosse champnship game between Denver and Maryland at Lln Fancial Field Philalphia, a few away on the mp of Pennsylvania Universy, several hundred people, gay lacrosse players and their alli, gathered for The Courage Game.

Here are the All-County and All-League honors, selected by the TEAMAttack: Connor Gorman, Don Bos, junrAttack: Brenn Kelly, Bergen Catholic, senrAttack: Koleton Marquis, Don Bos, junrAttack: Ben Roberts, Tenafly, junrMidfielr: Will Consoli, Glen Rock, junrMidfielr: Bryan Creamer, Ramsey, senrMidfielr: Nicholas Muller, Bergen Catholic, junrMidfielr: W Peene, Ridgewood, senrMidfielr: John Santoro, Northern Highlands, senrMidfielr: Robert Simone, Don Bos, sophomoreDefenr: Cole Cunngham, Ridgewood, junrDefenr: Chris DeBellis, Ramapo, senrDefenr: Charlie Johnson, Northern Highlands, junrDefenr: Connor Kehm, Don Bos, junrDefenr: Gee Talari, Bergen Catholic, senrGoalie: Mason Bellger, Param, junrGoalie: Danny Coleman, Northern Highlands, senrTeam of the Year: Don BosCoach of the Year: Brendan Gorman, Don BosSECOND TEAMAttack: Brian Buono, Northern Highlands, junrAttack: Noah Carti, Ramapo, senrAttack: Ethan Gs, Glen Rock, senrAttack: William Mseo, Ridgewood, junrMidfielr: Ethan Cronk, Ridgewood, senrMidfielr: Jack Kastens, Mahwah, senrMidfielr: Frankie Monte, St. Joseph, junrMidfielr: John Dunphey, Ridgewood, junrDefenr: Damien Blando, Don Bos, senrDefenr: Jared Cohen, Pasck Valley, senrDefenr: Robbie Travers, Ramapo, junrDefenr: Declan Ward, NV/Old Tappan, senrGoalie: Jack Berg, Dwight-Englewood, senrGoalie: Dmond Von Tobel, Pasck Valley, senrHONORABLE MENTIONMason Carfello, Don Bos, junr; Drew Goln, Wtwood, junr; Steven Sciao, Mahwah, sophomore; Matthew Thurston, Ridgewood, senr; Evan Nicholas, Bergen Tech, senr; Matt Wortman, Tenafly, senr; Charlie Race, River Dell, senr; Peter Voorhis, Param, senr; Tanner Gay, Indian Hills, hman; Christopher Holloway, NV/Old Tappan, senr; Dillon Kelly, Ramsey, sophomore; Patrick Balatbat, Waldwick, senr; Kyle Feltman, Northern Highlands, junr; Nate Lewis, Pasck Valley, sophomore; Jam Nunnery, Ramapo, senr; Col Redman, Glen Rock, FIRST TEAMAttack:Casey Fagan, Wt Milford, senrRJ Vogt, Pompton Lak, senrAidan Bolger, Wt Milford, junrMidfield:Coll Rovere, Wayne Valley, junrZach Maksimiak, Pompton Lak, junrJohn Cantilli, Wayne Hills, senrDylan Connors, Wt Milford, junrDefense:Cole Wolford, Wayne Valley, sophomoreZach Relovsky, DePl, senrTheo Bolger, Wt Milford, sophomoreAt Knapp, Wayne Hills, junrGoalkeeper:Dan Daly, Wayne Hills, senrOpen:Le Ceneri, Clifton, junrConnor Kennedy, Lakeland, senrCoach of the Year: Gary Stoll, Wt MilfordSECOND TEAMAttack:Vcent Stoffel, Lakeland, junrJt Dembicki, Wayne Valley, senrMatt Kimberl, Pompton Lak, senrMidfield:Gibs Nils, Wayne Valley, senrRicky Iapoce, Wayne Hills, senrMarcello Santora, Lakeland, junrMichael Cook, Eastern Christian, sophomoreDefense:Le Krsaty, Wayne Hills, junrWill Schimmel, Pompton Lak, junrZanr Masanko, Wt Milford, junrGreg Klepacki, DePl, senrGoalkeeper:Jayn Betron, Wayne Valley, senrOpen:Jake Lombardo, Wayne Valley, senrMatt Dellapi, Wt Milford, senrJoe Celentano, Passaic Valley, senrHONORABLE MENTIONJab Maldonado, CliftonNick Martez, CliftonMatt Luehs, DePlCharlie Szuma, DePlSean Post, Eastern ChristianStephen Frank, Eastern ChristianDeclan Smh, HawthorneBrandon Beltran, HawthorneJake Querrazzi, LakelandAnton Santora, LakelandZanr Timothy, Passaic ValleyDamian Kribs, Passaic ValleyStefano Ciaravo, Passaic TechShawn Hutchon, Passaic TechDillon MacDonald, Pompton LakShane Evancho, Pompton LakDan Alicea, Wayne HillsLogan McFadn, Wayne HillsBraedon Phillips, Wayne ValleyJeff Robson, Wayne ValleyAshton Stymacks, Wt MilfordRyan Kirwan, Wt MilfordALL-NJILLGibbs DivisnFIRST TEAMAttack:Koleton Marquis, Don Bos, junrConnor Gorman, Don Bos, junrMatt McCrk, Mounta Lak, senrBrenn Kelly, Bergen Catholic, senrMidfield:Brandon Stuart, Don Bos, junrJohn Santuro, Northern Highlands, senrCa Schuckman, Mounta Lak, junrFrankie Monte, St. Joseph, senrW Peene, Ridgewood, senrNick Muller, Bergen Catholic, junrDefense: Connor Kehm, Don Bos, junrGee Talari, Bergen Catholic, senrBilly Smh, Mounta Lak, senrChris Debellis, Ramapo, senrGoali:Kai Dimaculangan, Don Bos, senrShane Nachishen, Mounta Lak, senrFOGO: Robert Simone, Don Bos, sophomoreLSM:Cole Cunngham, Ridgewood, junr Ryan McClghl, Mounta Lak, senr SECOND TEAMAttack:Noah Carti, Ramapo, senrBrian Buono, Northern Highlands, junrWill Mseo, Ridgewood, junr Tristan Plotts, Mounta Lak, senrMidfield:Ken Morrissey, Northern Highlands, senrOwen Fetto, St.