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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! " 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.

GAY CYCLG LOVER

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.

MOST CYCLISTS ARE GAY?

Poor analogi asi, live thentilly wh pri and you will spire others, gay and straight, to live their life more fully. When you make yourself visible, you too are like Michael Sam, or any public figur that n spire other people to be fortable their own sk, and at the same time, change the perceptn of what gay is.

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