Brendan Holer is a Masters Natnal Champn, 9-time state champn, a pro cyclg ach, and openly gay. The stigma of the gay male athlete persists, and ’s a stigma he hop to change.
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GAY CYCLG CHAMP PROMOT AN THENTIC AND VISIBLE LIFE
And I am an open and proud gay man. I often qutned if I need to e out, and I never thought I'd wave the flag, but the whole procs up to this pot has ma me very proud to intify myself as gay. After I me out, a number of tim I would hear, "But you n't be gay!
GAY CYCLG LOVER
" My physil tras and abily to excel at sports ma impossible for some to even nsir me gay. That notn or ia that there is a okie-cut fn of what is gay is somethg that I would like to see change; but aga, only visibily will make this happen.
MOST CYCLISTS ARE GAY?
Sure, at first when you e out, that will be somethg to talk about, but when you simply go out and live proudly as you are, gay jt be another, but not solely fg, characteristic. I am not the gay iend. I do not get troduced as, "This is Brendan, he's gay.
Of urse, if datg up, "he's gay" gets add on.