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• TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE PRO GOLFER
• TADD FUJIKAWA: AMERIN GOLFER OUT AS GAY HEARTFELT INSTAGRAM POST
• PROFSNAL GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY
• TADD FUJIKAWA: JAPANE-AMERIN GOLFER OUT AS GAY
• TADD FUJIKAWA ANNOUNC HE'S GAY, BE FIRST MALE PROFSNAL GOLFER TO E OUT
• TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY: 'I JT WANT TO SPREAD LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE'
• TADD FUJIKAWA MAK HISTORY AS FIRST MALE PROFSNAL GOLFER TO COME OUT AS GAY
• PRO GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• PRO GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY TO PAY FORWARD
• TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PROFSNAL GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY

TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE PRO GOLFER

Tadd Fujikawa, the first openly gay male pro golfer, talks about his battle wh prsn and why he hop his story will spire others. 10 of this year, Fujikawa, 27 and livg Sea Island, Ga., announced he is gay an Instagram post, beg the first openly gay male profsnal golfer. None of them spected I was gay.

TADD FUJIKAWA: AMERIN GOLFER OUT AS GAY HEARTFELT INSTAGRAM POST

I thk a lot of people who are gay have that ltle voice the back of their head that wonrs, What if? In some ways there's still a culture of shame surroundg beg gay. I'M NOT SURE why we haven't had a male golfer e out as gay before me.

There's no gay muny where I live. We still feel there's somethg wrong wh beg gay. In our first story, Tadd Fujikawa opens up about his cisn to e out as the first openly gay profsnal male golfer.

PROFSNAL GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY

Tadd Fujikawa, who 2007 beme the send-youngt player to make the cut at a PGA Tour event, has e out as gay, and he is believed to be the first male profsnal golfer to do so.

TADD FUJIKAWA: JAPANE-AMERIN GOLFER OUT AS GAY

"Acrdg to Outsports, a webse that exam the tersectn of sports and LGBTQ issu, openly gay active female pro golfers have clud Mianne Bagger, Alena Sharp and Rosie Jon. In a 2010 book (via), LPGA player Christa Kim timated that there were "no more than two dozen gay women playg the tour" at that time, out of a total of approximately 230 women.

TADD FUJIKAWA ANNOUNC HE'S GAY, BE FIRST MALE PROFSNAL GOLFER TO E OUT

He’s the first, and only, openly gay golfer on the men’s profsnal circu. “I lled him and told him I was gay and right away was like this wall between jt disappeared, and was very, very ol. The neart gay muny, he says, is a uple of hours away Savannah.

TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY: 'I JT WANT TO SPREAD LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE'

“On the PGA Tour there’s got to be at least a uple of gay guys, there’s jt no way around , ” he says, “but g out is one of those thgs everyone has to do their own time and, hontly, people don’t even have to e out. But golf’s not the easit game for a gay man.

I mean, ’s not a good thg but if I got offend by every gay joke that I heard, life would not be good.

TADD FUJIKAWA MAK HISTORY AS FIRST MALE PROFSNAL GOLFER TO COME OUT AS GAY

It was on the social media platform where Fujikawa ma his sexualy public and beme the first openly gay male profsnal golfer. In the vio, Fujikawa says that when he publicly announced his sexualy, he had no ia that he was the first openly gay male profsnal golfer. Amerin golfer Tadd Fujikawa has announced he is gay.

The 27-year-old is believed to be the first openly gay male profsnal golfer. “So … I’m gay, ” he wrote. I'm gay.

"Fujikawa said that the fluence of openly gay people the public eye helped him fd personal acceptance, and he hop his announcement n do the same for others. In 2017, Tadd Fujikawa said: "I've gone through ''" and that "anxiety and prsn are too real"Japane-Amerin golfer Tadd Fujikawa has e out as gay a post on his Instagram Fujikawa, 27, ma the announcement on World Suici Preventn Day. "So, I'm gay.

PRO GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

He also ma another piece of history 11 years later, when he beme the first male profsnal golfer to publicly announce that he was gay. How signifint was to announce yourself as gay on a day that cid wh World Suici Preventn Day? What do mean to you to be the first openly gay male profsnal golfer?

I didn't e out bee I knew I'd be the first openly gay male pro golfer.

PRO GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY TO PAY FORWARD

When Tadd Fujikawa me out on Instagram, he didn’t tend to be the first openly gay male profsnal golfer. I'm gay, ” he said.

While profsnal female golfers like Jane Geds and Rosie Jon have been out for s, Fujikawa beme golf’s first gay du—not the first time the five-foot-one-ch former teenage golf prodigy ma history.

He spoke to GQ about gaydar, guys, and How was your day? It's actually an there a gay scene there? A lotta gays, 's not lackg that a part of you wish you me out sooner?

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

There's a lot of people who’ve asked me for advice about g out and stuff, and for me, I never felt ready even as I did did you realize you were gay?

She said even when you're drivg you’re takg your time, you're no sh, your md is, you don't even really realize how much you're holdg on to somethg until you let , you ever been to a gay bar? And I like meangful n have those gay bars.

So if not gay bars, how do you meet guys? You have to be kd of secure yourself that you thk you're the only gay male golfer playg profsnally right now?

Obvly, there's gaydar, and me works perfectly fe.