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- GAY, BLACK GYMNAST FDS HE N BE HIMSELF AT WT POT
- DANIEL AND LARRY LENNOX-CHOATE, FIRST GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT, ATTACKED NYC
GAY, BLACK GYMNAST FDS HE N BE HIMSELF AT WT POT
I also happen to be gay. Not too long ago I uld not be openly gay the ary whout facg nsequenc. What hurt then was the fact that the “choice” I ma to reveal myself as gay uld impact the choice they ma to keep me.
When I me out as gay, my parents first asked if I’d ever been abed, and then thought was a phase. In middle school and high school, gymnasts are nstantly batg the belief that gymnastics is a “gay sport.
” I remember nstantly beg ma fun of and mocked for participatg such a “feme” and “gay” pastime. I have always been ut to validate others opns of the sport beg a gay bee I was “a gay” who happened to do gymnastics.
DANIEL AND LARRY LENNOX-CHOATE, FIRST GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT, ATTACKED NYC
In fact, I know very few gay gymnasts. I have always found that outsi of the locker room, I would be the gayt actg (maybe ’s bee I am gay! If I played around touchg others or makg “gay” jok like my straight unterparts did, would not be seen as a joke or taken lightly.
That’s a rhetoril qutn that should be thought about for those who neglect to thk about the gay teammat on their team. In 2021, my sophomore year, I cid to stop hidg myself and began actg like how I would outsi of the gym.
In the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, rponse to a police raid and vlence toward homosexuals at the Stonewall Inn Manhattan, members of the gay muny spontaneoly began a seri of monstratns om the unjt actns now known as the Stonewall rts. The Stonewall rts proved to be a tippg pot and one of the most important events leadg to the gay liberatn movement the years that followed. The observance of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri Month is celebrated each year durg the month of June.