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‘I’m gay,’ Perks said. ‘This is who I am, this is who I’ve been, and this is who I’m gog to be.’

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Today he me out publicly as gay a powerful msage of love for everyone his life. “I’m gay, let be known that this is not a ‘cisn’ or a ‘choice. Perks is the first gay football player to e out publicly at an HBCU.

Other gay Divisn I football players have been out durg their llege reers — Stt Frantz at Kansas State and Arizona’s My-Kg Johnson — addn to var other gay llege football players.

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There hasn’t been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU.

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The troubled but betiful gay star Montgomery Clift. Montgomery Clift was sexually lked to many gay stars, cludg Rock Hudson. Gay tck driver Roy Fzgerald was transformed by gay agent Henry Willson to superstar Rock Hudson.

Rock Hudson and Gee Nar — gay BFFs or somethg more? Gay actor Sal Meo was the go-to boy to play a troubled teen — and never more overtly gay than Rebel Whout a Cse. 1950s heartthrob Tab Hunter was another gay hunk whose reer was built (and then stroyed) by agent Henry Willson.

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When Byron Perks h “share” on Instagram and publicly me out as gay, he didn’t thk he was dog for anybody other than himself. But as the first gay football player to ever publicly e out at an HBCU, Perks didn’t jt remove his own mask when he revealed his sexualy to the world.

Perks is not the first llege football player to publicly e out as gay. “Especially at an HBCU, young Black gay men need an outlet, ” Perks told Outsports’ Cyd Zeigler. Last year, after publicly g out an Instagram Story post, Byron Perks beme the first openly gay football player to play for a Historilly Black College or Universy, and a new vio terview wh the We Need to Talk sports show, the Hampton Universy fensive back is openg up about what ma him fally fortable to e out and be who he is.

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