We Swept wh your Boyiend: Gay curlg teams have the olt nam - Outsports

Contents:

• MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
• CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIPS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• CANADA’S GAY CURLG LEAGU TAKE PRI ON ICE
• ST. JOHN'S CURLG LEAGUE OFFERS GAY SPACE AWAY OM DOWNTOWN BARS
• WE SWEPT WH YOUR BOYIEND: GAY CURLG TEAMS HAVE THE OLT NAM
• SASK. TEAMS MONTREAL FOR CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIP

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

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. 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.

CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIPS

Few have followed Rogers’s footsteps: Openly gay male role mols major sports are fewer than few-and-far-between. Bee then why are we aaid to be gay? “I was never told, ‘You nnot be gay’ — nobody’s ever said that.

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. 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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

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.

CANADA’S GAY CURLG LEAGU TAKE PRI ON ICE

Eppg is hopeful the sportg world will see more gay athlet open up and be role mols the near future. Cameron MacLeod - MAR 10 2015; TORONTO - Each year, LGBT curlers om across Canada pete the Canadian Gay Curlg Champnship (CGCC), and this year was Toronto's turn to host.

ST. JOHN'S CURLG LEAGUE OFFERS GAY SPACE AWAY OM DOWNTOWN BARS

Toronto's Riverdale Curlg League weled over 200 curlers om ast to ast to the Royal Canadian Curlg Club to pete the 10th annual "Canadian Gay Curlg Champnships" (CGCC) and the pann recreatnal bonspiel tournament, "Do It On The Ice", now s 27th year! Check out and to learn more, and follow @GayCurl on Twter to keep up wh future events too! My name is Stt Cooke and I am a member/anizer for a gay sport league Haton.

He publicly me out as gay 2012, and says he was embraced around the sport. TORONTO — It has been over five years sce curler John Eppg told fay, iends, and peers his sport’s muny that he was gay. Eppg knew there was growg tert his story about beg a gay athlete a men’s team sport, but held off on sharg the news more wily as he didn’t want to be a distractn for his team.

But I jt look at like, I haven’t thought about gog around broadstg that I’m a gay person curlg. The number of active ele male athlet who have revealed that they’re gay has risen recent years, although ’s still a rary at the profsnal level and the curlg world. "On that end, I thk I (should be) my prime the next four or five — or eight years hopefully — I hope people see that as a good thg or a posive thg, that there’s a gay athlete out their sport, their prime.

WE SWEPT WH YOUR BOYIEND: GAY CURLG TEAMS HAVE THE OLT NAM

Gay curlg leagu are que popular throughout the untry and the 12th edn of the Canadian gay curlg champnship is on tap next month Montreal. "We’ve never thought of John as a gay athlete. The son of 2000 European rally r champn Henrik Lundgaard, the IndyCar sophomore took advantage of his off-roadg background to secure the No.

13, 2016VANCOUVER, Brish Columbia — It happens all the time: Young gay people leave their small towns and head to the big cy, where they n fd love, acceptance and, Canada at least, a curlg league to ll their own. “When I walked down the street, I was the entire gay pri para, ” said Mr.

Enan, a movg to Vanuver, he joed the gay Pacific Rim Curlg League, which this year marched the Vanuver gay pri para, rryg brooms and wearg shirts that proclaimed, “I swept wh your hband. ”Canada has for s been at the foreont of gay rights, legalizg homosexual activy, openly gay ary service and same-sex marriage long before the Uned Stat and other Wtern mocraci did.

SASK. TEAMS MONTREAL FOR CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIP

This summer, Jt T beme the first stg Canadian prime mister to march a gay pri Tta for The New York TimGay curlg leagu have blossomed recent s, highlightg a distctly Canadian aspect of morn gay life.

The untry’s olst gay curlg league, Rotators, was started Toronto 1962 and went publicly gay six years later.

“They were the flight attendants of the railway, ” said Murray Leang, the print of Rotators and Riverdale, the natn’s largt gay curlg league, prisg 56 has 12 gay curlg leagu wh hundreds of four-member teams.