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MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay." name="scriptn * gay curling toronto *

But as the only openly gay star male athlete major North Amerin sports, he feels a rponsibily to talk about his sexualy — and hop his example will empower others.

In major North Amerin sports — and certaly Canada, curlg is among them — Eppg stands alone as an openly gay, star male athlete. No player NHL history has ever e out; Jason Colls did jt before he played his fal NBA season 2013–14; a uple MLB players have e out after their reers end; and NFL draft pick Michael Sam announced he was gay after his llege football reer was over.

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Coll Mart played three MLS gam last season after g out 2018, five years after fellow pro soccer player Robbie Rogers beme the first openly gay man to pete a top North Amerin sports league.

Few have followed Rogers’s footsteps: Openly gay male role mols major sports are fewer than few-and-far-between.

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Bee then why are we aaid to be gay? “I was never told, ‘You nnot be gay’ — nobody’s ever said that.

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But ’s jt not somethg we brought up, that you n be gay. Eppg kept his feelgs to himself — he scrib the realizatn as “a very slow procs” — and a uple years later he told a close iend that he was gay. Only one of his high-school iends was upset at the news, and not bee he was gay.

His mom’s was that he’d cut ti wh his fay — she’d had a iend growg up who was gay, and he’d moved to Toronto, and she never heard om him aga.

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Eppg’s grandmother, Irene, who died earlier this year at age 92, didn’t need to be told her grandson was gay. “Bee he’d been openly gay the curlg muny for a few years, he’d been a great mentor to a lot of athlet already, ” March says.

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I don’t need to tell people I’m gay — I don’t. The day he revealed publicly that he was gay, Eppg’s Instagram and Facebook msag piled up. Recently, through a curlg fundraisg lendar, he helped raise $11, 000 for the Lbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Le, a Toronto-based anizatn that mak available same-aged kids to chat wh their peers about any stggl they may be havg as relat to their sexualy.

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Eppg is hopeful the sportg world will see more gay athlet open up and be role mols the near future.

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