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HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
The gay athlet have broken through the noise to fd they n be accepted as gay athlet basketball. * who is openly gay basketball player *
From late April 2013 to early May 2014, gay and lbian athlet weled breakthrough after breakthrough the historilly closeted world of sports.
Journeyman basketball center Jason Colls me out as gay and later signed a ntract wh the Brooklyn Nets, makg him the first openly gay player to get to a regular-season game the NBA, NFL, NHL or MLB. More gay athlet tellg their stori.
Sce was found 1999 by journalists Jim Buzski and Cyd Zeigler, the webse Outsports has been an outlet for gay sports fans and athlet to share their personal stori or simply chat about their favore teams. “It was jt basilly jt two guys who liked sports who happened to be gay, ” he said. They clu a high school football player om Texas who played for his team durg the game and performed wh the drill squad at halftime, and a sprter who attempted suici twice before g to terms wh himself as an out, gay man.
ATHLET WHO ARE GAY
And yet, as the number of openly gay players grows at the high school and llege levels (not to mentn the WNBA, where stars such as Brtney Grer, Diana Trasi and Ellena Delle Donne all have e out), some qutns rema: Why aren’t male athlet at the profsnal level g out? I ran several search of the NewsBank database to try to gge whether g-out stori about gay and lbian athlet were beg more or ls equent. Each search ed the terms “gay or lbian” and “athlete or player” and “g out” on U.
The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) muny remas a hot topic the Uned Stat.
The LGBT movement emerged as early as the 1870s, but homosexual rights groups didn't appear until after World War II September 1945. To add onto the topic of the Warrrs, print Rick Welts me out as gay an terview wh the New York Tim 2011.