Ellt Trotter is openly gay profsnal Ultimate Frisbee player - Outsports

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By Dan Woog So how gay is isbee? Pretty gay. It's a sport - which is actually lled "Ultimate" and played wh a "disc," bee "Frisbee" is a

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Six weeks later I me out (thankfully, PJ was gay too), PJ soon troduced me to Jim and his flag football league, and the rt is history. Ultimate is an credibly open, welg place for gay athlet. In over 20 years of playg petive Ultimate, I've experienced jt one cint of homophobia.

" He didn't know I was gay.

One gay Ultimate player who emailed me this week said an HRC sticker was prent on one of the Columb Cran player's equipment "buckets" durg their ngural game last weekend. A spokperson for the Cran, Molly Mos, nfirmed that the player has had the sticker for years (though she has no knowledge that any of their players is gay). Asi om beg gay-iendly, Ultimate is the most exced sport I've ever seen.

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"Most teams I've played on have been so mted to wng and beg better that the fact that I was gay was never a big issue. While Trotter don't wear a big rabow flag on his cht or talk much about beg gay, there's no doubt everyone on his current team is well aware. "I don't know that always me up nversatn, " he said, "but teammat e up to me and say thgs like, 'I hear you're gay, jt wanted you to know I'm ol wh that.

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While he's experienced overwhelmg embrace by the ultimate muny, there have been rare moments of sual homophobia that ma him stop his tracks. "I remember someone talkg to me on the sile and sayg somethg was 'gay, '" Trotter remembered. The world's first gay ultimate league, Big Gay Frisbee, had s gural season Los Angel earlier this year.

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ELLT TROTTER IS OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL ULTIMATE FRISBEE PLAYER

Pretty gay. And plenty are gay. It’s a big gay sport.

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