Pro disc golf’s only openly gay MPO player, Thomas Gilbert, starts the nversatn.
Contents:
- PRO DISC GOLFER THOMAS GILBERT OUT AS GAY
- LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
- GAY, GEIA
PRO DISC GOLFER THOMAS GILBERT OUT AS GAY
* disc golf is gay *
Thomas Gilbert, a profsnal disc golfer, had a simple msage wrten above his photo on an Instagram post this weekend: “I’m gay. Therefore I feel like ’s time to e out to you all, and let you know that I am gay.
When Thomas Gilbert me out as gay the begng of 2022, he did not jt for himself, but for other disc golfers who might be part of the LGBTQ+ muny. At the begng of 2022, Gilbert announced via an Instagram post that he is gay. In December, Gilbert watched the Netflix seri Comg Out Colton, a doceri that followed former NFL player and one-time The Bachelor star Colton Unrwood on his journey as he told iends and fay that he was gay.
"I don't thk anyone knew I was gay up until the begng of 2021, and slowly throughout the season I me out to more and more people, " Gilbert said.
LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
He's often heard players e "gay" as a rogatory term toward their poor shots, for example, and enuraged people to choose their words more refully. Thomas Gilbert beg an openly gay, active PDGA player is kd of a big al.
GAY, GEIA
Le Prokop is the only gay active NHL player, ever. There is one openly gay MLS player, Coll Mart.
There have been more one-hand players the MLB than gay players. Whether your argument is that r/discgolf should be rerved for pictur of you standg next to a basket you swear you aced, or that the wonrful, clive world of 2022, a person's sexualy isn't news, or you're jt a bigot threatened by exceptnally talented, likeable gay people, this is a really big al.
This month the PGA of Ameri has been spotlightg gay members, and for several years has strsed that golf’s long-term health and enomy mands drawg a more diverse dience. Last year, Tadd Fujikawa beme the first male player of even morate promence to announce that he is gay. The LPGA Tour has long been a welg ward for lbians, but gay men are entirely visible on the PGA Tour and only slightly ls so the broar golf universe.