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Gays sports: On the field -- and the closet

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TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

Let’s be clear right om the start. None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that. The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surro * closet gay athletes *

Throughout the world of sports, there are plenty of athlet who are mored to be gay. Although we’re the 21st Century, some sportg arenas aren’t very fivg plac for an openly gay athlete. At stadiums throughout the world – although maly wtern society, pecially Europe – they tnt players, there are racist, homophobic chants, and tly disgtg language is ed.

That’s why there are very few openly gay soccer players. This holds te for many gay athlet around the world. Some though have taken the plunge and are livg liv as openly gay athlet.

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

Two athlet recently g out has highlighted the arth of openly gay players the world of U.S. men's profsnal sports, often dubbed "the last closet" for s lack of LGBTQ reprentatn. * closet gay athletes *

He’s a solid player whout beg spectacular, but a lot of people know him solely for a hoax he tried to pull 2012, one that led people to believe that he was gay.

It later me out that NFL teams had been thkg he was gay before the draft. In 2013, he me out of the closet, revealg he was gay and dog so beg one of football’s first openly self-acknowledged gay players. It’s unfortunate for Troy, that over the urse of a uple of s, he’s had to ny mors that he’s gay.

AS PRI MONTH BEGS, ELE GAY MALE ATHLET REMA STUCK THE CLOSET

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Skip started the mor his book when he wrote that Troy might be gay. Jt judgg by his look, his persona, the majory of people wouldn’t even enterta the fact that he uld be gay. She claimed that he was gay and that he’d had a gay relatnship when he was llege.

It was durg this time that mors began to surface that Kerry was gay. He’s also nied that he’s gay. Dpe beg the limelight for so long, he’s only recently e out and revealed that he’s gay.

He only me out this year, revealg he was gay a clip for a Swedish TV show.

WHO IS KEEPG GAY ATHLET THE CLOSET?

Former NBA player John Amaechi ma news recently when he announced that he is gay. But why do so many gay male athlet keep their sexual orientatn a secret? Is a fear of teammat, or of public reactn? * closet gay athletes *

Dpe him beg Brish, news that he was out still reached a lot of people, people who probably already had an klg that he was gay.

It’s therefore sad – whether he is gay or not – that he’s had this monkey hangg over his back. He’s had to bat away mors that he’s gay.

GAYS SPORTS: ON THE FIELD -- AND THE CLOSET

But while they were datg, his former assistant and roommate me out and alleged that Aaron was gay. In 2014, Jason Colls beme the first openly gay NBA player.

He revealed to the world that he was gay an terview wh Sports Illtrated, and asked people to rpect his privacy. He’s been scribed as a “game changer” for team sports, and for homosexual people sports general.

Friends and fay knew she was gay long before she publicly announced . Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.

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