Canadian natnal team volleyball player Chris Voth out as gay. In this terview released by reveals his life on and off the urt as the FIRST male natnal team player to e out.
Contents:
- CANADA’S CHRIS VOTH COM OUT AS GAY
- GAY MANOBA VOLLEYBALL PLAYER LANDS AL WH TEAM FOLLOWG REJECTN
- BEG GAY STS V-BALL JOB
- OPENLY GAY NATNAL VOLLEYBALL PLAYER AIMS TO BE ROLE MOL FOR YOUNG ATHLET
- WE NEED MORE GAY MALE PRO TEAM SPORT ATHLET TO E OUT
- MOVG TO LGBT WNIPEG, MANOBA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
CANADA’S CHRIS VOTH COM OUT AS GAY
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But there was nothg easy about admtg to himself he is gay — not when the 23-year-old spent many of his years tryg to figure out what was makg him so unhappy. Chris is a trailblazer here Manoba as the first openly gay natnal-team athlete. He hop to help change the landspe Manoba for people who are LGBT (lbian gay bisexual transgenr), pecially athlet who fear not beg accepted.
When Brian’s youngt son, Brendan, me out 2009, there was Brian on TSN tellg the world, “ don’t change anythg… ” After Brendan was killed a r crash 2010, Patrick and Brian lnched the You Can Play project to end homophobia sports. Last April, when 12-year NBA player Jason Colls me out a Sports Illtrated ver story, he beme the first openly gay active male athlete a major North Amerin sport. Komishon says Chris ma an immediate difference attus the locker-room after he told U of M players dividually he is gay.
In the past, the term ‘gay’ was ed negatively so we were jt more nsc of that. While Chris was later fortable enough to reveal he is gay, Out There Sports volunteer Thomas Novak says a fortable atmosphere is what is all about. But he didn’t tell her he was gay until years later when he returned to ach badmton.
GAY MANOBA VOLLEYBALL PLAYER LANDS AL WH TEAM FOLLOWG REJECTN
We discsed a lot of issu alg wh feelgs of low self-worth he was havg due to beg gay and not beg sure and that uncertaty of whether he would be accepted by his fay and his peers, ” says Kolton, who spoke wh Chris’s and her school’s blsgs. “We were able to work around some of those thgs whout him havg to name that he was gay.
BEG GAY STS V-BALL JOB
Chris Voth, a former Universy of Manoba Bison, who was playg volleyball the Netherlands but wanted to try playg another untry, said a team he was about to sign wh, pulled his ntract bee they found out he is gay. “It was tough when I lost the ntract for beg gay and when teams kept passg.
He wants people to know 's possible to be an openly gay profsnal athlete. Beg openly gay has st Chris Voth a job, but the 25-year-old profsnal volleyball player om Wnipeg said ’s a bump the road, and he is more termed than ever to stay the urse on the next part of his journey. Voth me out 2014 the pag of the Free Prs wh the goals of spirg others to be who they are and jog the fight to break down barriers sport faced by athlet who are gay.
OPENLY GAY NATNAL VOLLEYBALL PLAYER AIMS TO BE ROLE MOL FOR YOUNG ATHLET
A profsnal club whdrew a ntract offer to Chris Voth recently bee he is openly gay, and the club said they had ncerns about fans.
WE NEED MORE GAY MALE PRO TEAM SPORT ATHLET TO E OUT
He cid not to publicly state the untry to keep the foc on the issue of barriers faced by athlet who have e out as gay. “My agent told me the team said they didn’t want to take you bee they were nervo about other teams’ fans beg hostile toward you bee of beg gay.
I was tryg to set an example that is possible (to be succsful as an openly gay profsnal athlete), you n do . “My team the Netherlands was amazg, they were very supportive and I loved there, so I didn’t really thk (beg openly gay) would be an issue. I had some offers untri that I knew I uldn’t go to (where homosexualy is illegal or punishable by ath) like Iran, Egypt and eastern untri like that, so I don’t really want to do that, ” he said wh a lgh.
Barriers and equal treatment for openly gay athlet have been issu at the 2016 Summer Olympics R.
MOVG TO LGBT WNIPEG, MANOBA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
Wanda Guete, a member of Canada’s women’s 1996 Olympic volleyball team and former profsnal player who is gay, said she was disappoted to hear about Voth’s ntract offer beg pulled. Guete, now the ach of Manoba’s 2017 Canada Gam beach volleyball team, said Voth’s experience happened at a time there are more openly gay athlet the Olympics than ever.
When Voth me out 2014, was jt before Jason Colls signed a ntract wh the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets as the first openly gay active player the four major U.
As an openly gay male athlete a pro team sport, I feel like a distct mory and wish more athlet would take the plunge and e out. I am om Canada and play pro volleyball and hasn’t been easy beg openly gay. I have had at least one pro volleyball team not sign me bee I am gay, but I don’t regret beg out.