Sydney Gay's Women's Volleyball Recg Profile

Contents:

• GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT
• GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER, ACH FDS NFINCE HIMSELF AND RENEWED LOVE OF THE SPORT
• SYDNEY GAY ‘24 RECG PROFILE
• THE UNOFFICIAL GAYT SPORT: VOLLEYBALL

GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT

Gay volleyball player’s self-acceptance led to eper bond wh llege teammat. “How n you tell when another guy is gay? Francis Universy near Ptsburgh when I me out as gay.

I was hont wh them about what kept me the closet: the homophobic locker room talk, wonrg if people would accept me and not beg able to accept myself. Some part of me always realized that I was gay. In high school the tim I would hear words and phras like “fag” or “that’s gay” thrown around really ma hard to accept that I was gay.

I started to thk, there is nothg wrong wh beg gay. You are gay.

GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER, ACH FDS NFINCE HIMSELF AND RENEWED LOVE OF THE SPORT

You are gay and that’s a good thg! ” His look of ncern was quickly met wh my words: “I am gay.

SYDNEY GAY ‘24 RECG PROFILE

I spent my last semter of llege livg my life openly as a gay man and athlete. Gay volleyball player, ach fds nfince himself and renewed love of the sport.

Beg gay means g out is never really over and the fears n e back, as I found out this year.

THE UNOFFICIAL GAYT SPORT: VOLLEYBALL

Would my players tst me bee I was gay? My recent fort and acceptance of beg gay and playg volleyball ntrasts wh the stggl I had growg up.

I knew I was gay around my middle school years and never actually had to e out to my fay; they jt knew. When I started to play club volleyball seventh gra, I quickly realized that the very ia of me playg volleyball tomatilly labeled me as gay the ey of my peers.

This notn bothered me, and I did everythg I uld to not be looked at as “the gay boy who plays volleyball.