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Contents:

• ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLETGAY GOLFERS LIST: PGA PLAYERS, PROS, AND COLLEGE ATHLET
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS
• TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO GOLF DDIE TODD MONTOYA HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
• GAY GOLF PRO SE SPORT AS MORE ACCEPTG AND WANTS GOLFERS TO E OUT
• PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY
• PRO DISC GOLFER THOMAS GILBERT OUT AS GAY
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?
• TODD MONTOYA OUT AS PGA TOUR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DDIE, HOP STORY SPIR OTHERS
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT

ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y

__An openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago. But the PGA Tour remas uncharted terrory for homosexuals.

FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLETGAY GOLFERS LIST: PGA PLAYERS, PROS, AND COLLEGE ATHLET

While women's golf has had several openly gay players through the years, the men's tour is wag on s first. And, as Brandt Sneker said on the upg season premiere of Golf Channel's "Feherty, " that's probably not bee of an absence of gay golfers -- jt none willg to make their sexual preference public. "I don't believe that at all, " Brandt Sneker said when host David Feherty remarked the tour don't have any gay players.

"I don't thk a gay golfer is gog to be that big of a al.

But Sneker said he would enurage a gay golfer to e out if he was ready. "The fact that the tour don't have an openly gay player -- I don't know if there is or isn't, but odds are there probably is a gay person on the PGA Tour. Gay Golfers List: PGA Players, Pros, and College Athlet.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

After our Grandma Aka read our post on Gay Wrtlers, she was like, “Ohhh, I didn’t know there are many of them.

After all, there are probably thoands of wrtlers out there grapplg for the big dogs like WWE and the Lucha Unrground as well as the ls known on the die wa, this is supposed to be a gay golfers list, why are we gettg distracted by wrtlg?

” [Via The Guardian]Another gay golfer featured on Outsports is Chris Noble who played for the golf team of the Holy Cross College at Notre Dame. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen is now the first openly gay male ach the NFL.

(Jam Gilbert/Getty Imag)Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay Thursday, which mak him the first known openly gay male ach the NFL and all of Amerin men’s profsnal joed the Jaguars’ strength and ndng staff last season.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

”Maxen is the latt the NFL to e out publicly as gay. Tampa Bay Bucneers fensive end Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player when he me out 2021, when he was wh the Las Vegas Rairs. Former San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers ma history as both the first woman and first openly gay ach a Super Bowl was a lebacker at Wtern Connecticut State, a Divisn III program.

IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO GOLF DDIE TODD MONTOYA HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. -based profsnal league to e out as gay. In fact, there’s been only one golfer ever to play on the PGA Tour — Tadd Fujikawa — to e out as gay.

GAY GOLF PRO SE SPORT AS MORE ACCEPTG AND WANTS GOLFERS TO E OUT

We’ve had an out gay player w the MLS Cup. I thk a lot of them probably don’t re if someone is gay, but if we don’t talk about the issue don’t get rolved.

On the flip si, var men’s profsnal golfers have been phed to apologi for homophobic or off-lor ments or slurs they’ve uttered — Jt Thomas beg the most-discsed recent years. There was also an iative at the PGA Champnship a uple years ago where lol gay golf pro Greg Fzgerald had been anizg an entire Pri Day — That effort got turned to a virtual event the rponse to the COVID-19 panmic. Caddie Todd Montoya recently me out as gay, and Palm Sprgs-area golf pro Kyle Wn has also shared his story.

PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY

Still, you n unt the number of out gay players at a Major men’s golf tournament on exactly zero fgers. On Tuday, Fujikawa beme the first profsnal golfer to e out publicly as gay, hopg to serve as “an spiratn and makg a difference someone’s life.

PRO DISC GOLFER THOMAS GILBERT OUT AS GAY

“So…I’m gay, ” he wrote. Tadd Fujikawa has bee the first male pro to e out publicly as gay. So…I'm gay.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?

Stuard was referrg to Montoya g out to him as gay after beg his Tour ddie for four years.

He is the first openly gay ddie on the PGA Tour and Montoya’s public g out was a way for him to try and spire others. ”I lled him up and said, ‘Hey, Dougie, there’s somethg really important I want to tell you, ’ and I said, ‘I’m gay’. Greg Fzgerald is an openly gay golf pro and he thks the sport is ready for more out members, even players.

TODD MONTOYA OUT AS PGA TOUR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DDIE, HOP STORY SPIR OTHERS

I’m glad that I’m gay, now that the U.

I’m sure I would have been able to live a fe life as a straight man, but as a gay, redhead, golf pro I thk I stand out enough to be noticed and make a difference. Up until a few years ago, I thought I was the only gay, male golf pro the world.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

I got my boss and the three other golf pros om our staff together the office and told them I was gay.

It was at a self-velopment nference I was at December 2016 that I realized that pretendg all those years the golf bs meant that I was actually still not pletely OK wh beg gay. After a pse, I said, I’ve been pretendg that I’m straight my reer, when I’m really gay.

That was the first time I spoke about beg gay to strangers openly, and the first time I realized thgs had to change. However, straight men Ameri are transformg gradually to where they n know gay me, and know that gay men are not gog to e on to them the locker room. PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya has revealed he is gay.

LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT

Montoya ma the revelatn on the Golf Channel, and is believed to be the first openly gay ddie on the Tour.

In an emotnal terview, the New Mexin, who ddi for Brian Stuard, explaed his cisn to e out to reporter Kira K Dixon: “Somethg that you kept secret for so many years amongst people that you nsir your iends and your -workers - over the urse of time, you grow close to them and until people that I re about know that I’m gay, they really don’t know me for my entirety. "Montoya explaed that he told Doug LaBelle II, who he ed to ddie for, the news 2006, and his reactn gave him nfince: "I lled him up and said, 'Hey, Dougie, there's somethg really important I want to tell you, ' and I said, 'I'm gay'.