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Contents:
- TOP BRISH CURLER THRIVED AFTER G OUT AS GAY TO HIS TEAM
- MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
- GAY CURLER OUT PUBLICLY THE MIDDLE OF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP N
- BEHD THE SCEN AT THE CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIP
- OUT AT THE BRIER: GAY CURLER FULFILS CHILDHOOD DREAM
- GAY CURLG LEAGUE TAK TO THE ICE
TOP BRISH CURLER THRIVED AFTER G OUT AS GAY TO HIS TEAM
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He publicly me out as gay 2012, and says he was embraced around the sport. Bra’s top curler headg to the 2022 Wter Olympics says his succs the sport me when he me out as gay eight years ago to a sports psychologist.
MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
“She was the one who helped me realize that beg gay didn’t really matter terms of a sport, ’s not gog to affect how I play, but that before I had e out was affectg how I played, ” Bce Mouat told the BBC. 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.
GAY CURLER OUT PUBLICLY THE MIDDLE OF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP N
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.
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.
BEHD THE SCEN AT THE CANADIAN GAY CURLG CHAMPNSHIP
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.
OUT AT THE BRIER: GAY CURLER FULFILS CHILDHOOD DREAM
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.
GAY CURLG LEAGUE TAK TO THE ICE
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. Eppg is hopeful the sportg world will see more gay athlet open up and be role mols the near future.