I’m a golfer, and I’m gay. Get over .

Contents:

• TODD MONTOYA OUT AS PGA TOUR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DDIE, HOP STORY SPIR OTHERS
• LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
• I’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .

TODD MONTOYA OUT AS PGA TOUR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DDIE, HOP STORY SPIR OTHERS

Adults — nearly six percent — intify as gay, while a further lve to the numbers shows that almost 16 percent of Generatn Z (18-23-yearolds) intify as LGBTQ.

LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT

Jog Stonewall as his workload allows, Kyle Wn, PGA, is a gay golf profsnal and the golf and events sal ordator at Shadow Ridge, as well as a life skills ach at The First Tee of the Coachella Valley. “There actually ed to be a bar Palm Sprgs named Dk’s, which is an old joke the gay muny. It’s actually an acronym that stands for ‘Double Ine No Kids, ’ which is still reprentative of many gay upl.

There are a lot of gay upl wh money to spend on hobbi that st a ltle b more, such as golf. The dollars, the rounds and the Gallup poll notwhstandg, beg gay Ameri still reprents taboo for much of the culture, on or off the turf.

I’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .

“It wasn’t okay to be an openly gay golfer anyplace the untry 1990, or even 2000, ” Buie says. A hundred toward the ast, another of the natn’s largt gay golf groups te up wh equal ardor, albe wh a different approach to s msagg.

The group’s retired Mare founr don’t see a need to openly promote the group’s gay membership. From Metti’s vantage pot, a arth of gay golf groups serv as a signifier that an overt LGBTQ prence the game may be far om reachg the latter ne. “I thk that most of avid gay golfers still feel left out some rpects, ” Wn nclus.

Two exampl: TPC Hardg Park hostg the gural Pri Open, anized by Greg Fzgerald, the first out, gay male PGA teachg pro, and the USGA raisg Pri flags at s headquarters June and sharg an image of the flags on the anizatn’s social-media acunt. Tour pro Tadd Fujikawa says that not all homophobic ments are obv to people, and sometim not even tentnal.