The U.S. Open hosted s very first Pri, and out tennis player Nick Lee was there to ask: where are the other gay men?
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THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
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which gay tennis player is nsired the greatt male tennis player of all time (wng the US Open a rerd 7 tim, and a reer wng percentage of 94%), was nicknamed 'the Osr Wil of the tennis world', but was barred om profsnal tennis when was revealed he was gay? Which gay Wimbledon Champn, who followed this wh a succsful reer signg women's tennis cloth, was revealed as a Brish Intelligence spy after his ath?
Who was the first profsnal tennis player to e out as gay? In 2015, the Uned Stat Tennis Associatn appoted the first gay man s history as Chief Umpire for that year's U.
LOS TENISTAS GAYS
As a former men’s llegiate tennis player and openly gay member of my team, this qutn nagged at me as I attend the monumental first ever Pri event at the U.
As a former llegiate tennis player and gay man, this event stck a particularly sensive chord for me. After all of the homophobia I have personally experienced sports, the panelists and the packed dience gave me so much hope for the future of cln sports. The trailblazer for gay visibily on the ATP tour scribed himself durg the panel discsn as “an anx guy and an anx tennis player, ” statg that his disfort wh his sexual orientatn throughout his life was a signifint ntributor to his anxiety.
To me, the fact that Vahaly was even able to make on tour as a closeted gay man the 2000s mak him que an anomaly. The days, top players Roger Ferer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have all publicly stated that they would wele an out gay man to the ATP. While we now celebrate Kg for her acplishments as a gay rights activist, the sacrific she had to make and terrors that she endured for wantg to be her thentic self after beg outed towards the end of her profsnal tennis reer – nearly 40 years ago – are unjtifiable.