When Anthony Nimo fally worked up the urage to tell his players he was gay, he was prepared for the worst. He didn't expect what happened next.
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- GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER ENDUR HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS AT END OF HIS REER
- THIS GAY ATHLETE ME OUT TO HIS HIGH SCHOOL AT AN AWARDS BANQUET THE SOUTH
- 'I AM A GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACH'
- COMG OUT AS A GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACH: THE SURPRISG AFTERMATH
- GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER ATTACKED ON THE URT BY HOMOPHOBIC RIVALS
GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER ENDUR HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS AT END OF HIS REER
* gay high school basketball *
Peter High School basketball player Alex Bosacker me out as gay earlier this wter, he was met wh hugs, love and acceptance om his teammat and ach — the kd that numero other LGBTQ athlet have received.
In three separate gam, New Ulm players and fans attacked Bosacker wh a filla of homophobic words and actns that ranged om meang to disturbg. When Bosacker took his posn at the begng of a game Febary, the New Ulm player he was matched up agast tnted, “I’ve got the gay kid guardg me!
THIS GAY ATHLETE ME OUT TO HIS HIGH SCHOOL AT AN AWARDS BANQUET THE SOUTH
That player ntued hurlg homophobic trash talk at Bosacker throughout the game and then thgs took a physil turn.
'I AM A GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACH'
” Th far at New Ulm, homophobic tnts and attacks have led to fewer nsequenc than wearg a hat to class. A gay athlete havg fun was apparently too much for some stunts at New Ulm. This is part of an ongog seri of articl highlightg the voic of var members of the Natnal Gay Flag Football League.
I rried the weight of that dread to every locker rom where my teammat ma no hatns the discsn of their jad ias on homosexualy. It was quickly obv there was a unified belief that gay men were athletilly ferr.
COMG OUT AS A GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACH: THE SURPRISG AFTERMATH
I never unrstood how homosexual men seemed to domate so much of heterosexual men’s nversatns.
GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER ATTACKED ON THE URT BY HOMOPHOBIC RIVALS
They likely viewed gay athlet as ferr as well. “I’m gay.
I started my journey to prove my worth as an athlete, and led to lecturg my peers on the gay experience, an experience I’d yet to fully grasp myself. I took to the task fastidly, fieldg up to and cludg the most obv queri about what actually is to be a gay man. Dpe the horrific reputatn the South had mataed for s homophobia, I refed to let my opportuny to brg my muny to the 21st century pass me up.