This gay high school wrtler found strength his sport after facg harassment - Outsports

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• STEVENSON WRTLER DYLAN GEICK: 'I AM NOT ALONE' AS A GAY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE
• THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY
• GAY HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER ME OUT TO HIS TEAM, THEN REACHED THE STATE FAL
• GAY HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER ME OUT TO HIS TEAM, THEN REACHED THE STATE FAL
• CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG
• TOP US HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER OUT AS GAY
• THIS GAY HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER FOUND STRENGTH HIS SPORT AFTER FACG HARASSMENT
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• MEET OPENLY GAY WRTLER DYLAN WATSON
• GAY MMA ACH AND A CHAMPN WRTLER WS TOUGHT BATTLE BY G OUT

STEVENSON WRTLER DYLAN GEICK: 'I AM NOT ALONE' AS A GAY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE

Last May, Dylan Geick was havg lunch wh some iends at Stevenson when the talk turned to the news that a fellow stunt had jt e out as gay.

"Geick — now a senr bound for Columbia Universy and a two-time state placer for Stevenson's wrtlg team — is not the only Chigo-area high school athlete to e out as and cross-untry nner Konrad Eirg, now a sophomore petg at Illois, also me out as a junr at Barrgton and Geick are part of a small but growg number of out athlet at the high school and llege levels.

THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY

But he also n't rell not feelg fortable wh the ia of beg gay. Probably by sophomore year, I knew and had e to terms wh by junr year. "She said, 'Too bad, he's probably gay, '" Geick relled.

"Once I me here, I never had a problem wh gay people.

But was hard to image one of my bt iends beg gay. "I don't thk he's a bad kid and I don't thk he's homophobic. Columbia wrtlg ach Zach Tanelli was among those who learned Geick was gay om the Outsports story.

GAY HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER ME OUT TO HIS TEAM, THEN REACHED THE STATE FAL

It was only a uple weeks after startg to date his boyiend that Stevenson High School’s gay star wrtler, Dylan Geick, cid the closet wasn’t for him. When he me out surprised some people that this ele wrtler was gay.

He was a nference nner-up as a sophomore. “It jt so happened that all of those kids, even those who maybe had a homophobic view before were able to see past that, and are still my iends, and we are much closer even now, ” Geick told his school newspaper, The Statman. Sce that day, Geick hasn’t heard a sgle homophobic ment om his teammat.

Even his petors have stayed away om harassg him about beg gay. The entire regular season had gone by whout an cint, but headg to the state meet a petg wrtler tracked down Geick’s Instagram acunt and cid to leave a bg msage about Geick beg gay.

GAY HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER ME OUT TO HIS TEAM, THEN REACHED THE STATE FAL

Geick ma his beg gay pretty clear last June when he posted this Instagram picture om pri (that’s Geick on the left, while his boyiend, Grant, is plantg the kiss):. Sce then he’s been unabashed about beg gay and sharg photos of himself and Grant, cludg this post om his homeg last fall, wh his boyiend by his si:. Now Geick hop that by sharg his story he n help other gay athlet feel like they are not alone.

“I really didn’t know any gay wrtlers. The first thg I Googled was ‘NCAA gay wrtlg’ and that was the article I found. The two-year pta of the Meadowdale High School wrtlg team had heard enough of the homophobia tossed around the locker room.

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG

Certaly word had spread through the high school that one of the school’s bt athlet was gay. They were whisperg about him beg gay. Ball lled the 30 or so wrtlers together and talked wh them about beg gay, rpectg one another, and cuttg out the language the locker room that did ltle more than divi them.

TOP US HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER OUT AS GAY

Ball said the e of slurs and other sensive “gay talk” was virtually elimated overnight after his nversatn wh the team.

However, he ntued to hear slurs and other anti-gay language om opposg wrtlers at meets.

In addn to beg a standout athlete and team pta at his high school, he’s also the vice-print of the stunt body, print of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, and volunteers for the lol labor unn durg electns. Summer mp my sophomore year, after ach left, Varsy guys held wrtlg match to terme who got the remag lockers the big varsy room.

THIS GAY HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER FOUND STRENGTH HIS SPORT AFTER FACG HARASSMENT

That's not unique to your beg gay. Your beg gay is jt makg you self-nsc about .

Im a gay guy too. Gay ». Then he tease me i am gay.

Or maybe he's gay as he's the one bbg your dick?? Not all homosex is gay. GAY and so on is polil.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Homosex is diff.

Ask someone bigger then him to p him down and b hid dick till is 4 tim as hard as yours when he do to you and have the person tease him that he is gay.

A top high school wrtlg champn the US state of New Jersey has e out as gay. Speakg to Outsports, Alec Donovan, who is ranked the top 25 high school wrtlers of his weight class the US, me out as gay.

MEET OPENLY GAY WRTLER DYLAN WATSON

A fellow rec had apparently asked Donovan whether he was bisexual on the recment trip, at which pot he said: “I’m not bisexual… I’m gay. Some of my teammat high school would "joke" around about me beg gay, makg gay jok and llg me nam.

GAY MMA ACH AND A CHAMPN WRTLER WS TOUGHT BATTLE BY G OUT

Toward the end of my sophomore year I told my parents I wanted to take a break om wrtlg, that I wanted to tch up on school.

I was also very hant to jo the wrtlg team bee I was sred of what the wrtlers’ reactns would be when they found out I was gay. I asked one of them what he thought when he first found out I was gay.

What really ma me feel accepted was when we were at a dual meet, and the guy I was gog to wrtle said somethg about me beg gay. It mak me a better person and mak me a stronger gay man, every day.