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

A very short gay golfers list on PGA tour, llege athlet, golf pros. Tadd Fujikawa is first ever out pro golfer. Also clu Greg Fzgerald and Chris Noble * gay male professional golfers *

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.

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

So…I'm gay.

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

By Sam WemanAn openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago. The NBA's Jason Colls, after g out a Sports Illtrated... * gay male professional golfers *

In fact, there’s been only one golfer ever to play on the PGA Tour — Tadd Fujikawa — to e out as gay. 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.

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Let’s be clear right om the start. None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that. The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surro * gay male professional golfers *

Caddie Todd Montoya recently me out as gay, and Palm Sprgs-area golf pro Kyle Wn has also shared his story.

Still, you n unt the number of out gay players at a Major men’s golf tournament on exactly zero fgers.

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

The Masters pro-golf tournament starts today. It will have zero out gay male players, so we're honorg the trailblazers who bravely me out durg the reers. * gay male professional golfers *

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

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

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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’. __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.

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.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

"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.

5 GAY PRO ATHLET WHO BROKE GROUND BY G OUT WHILE STILL PLAYG

None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that.

The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surroundg the players, not to nvce the rear that the athlet are gay. In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg.

This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate. In 2011, mors began swirlg that Selby was gay, or at least bi-cur. Curry however, is also known by some bee of the allegatns that he is gay.

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

His ex-wife has acced him of beg gay and that Dunn’s lover om llege actually lived wh them for the first few years of their marriage. The mors about him potentially beg gay have been gog on sce the early 2000s. This mor was that a member of the New York Mets was gay and people were speculatg that was Piazza.

PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY

Qutns about Aikman's sexual orientatn have been around for s and the mor was started by Skip Bayls, when, his book, he stated that Troy Aikman might be gay. The event will have zero out gay male players, ntug 86 straight years of havg none on s roster. “Big Bill” William Tiln domated the ternatnal tennis world as an out gay man durg the 1920s, beg the first Amerin to ever w Wimbledon.

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

Historians have qutned whether the charg were based on homophobic mors and stereotyp that vilified gay men at the time. When Colls me out as gay the May 6, 2013 issue of Sports Illtrated, he was the first active male athlete any of the natn’s four major pro-sports leagu to do so.

He said he chose his jersey number, 98, as a way to honor Matthew Shepard, the gay man whose 1998 murr led to the passage of a natnal hate crim law. When Rogers me out as gay a Febary 2013 blog post, the then-25-year-old clud his announcement about retirg om profsnal soccer.

When the team won the 2014 MLS Cup champnship, Rogers beme the first out gay male athlete ever to w a major profsnal team sports tle the Uned Stat. Durg Pri month 2021, Nassib me out as gay on his personal Instagram acunt. Greg Fzgerald is an openly gay golf pro and he thks the sport is ready for more out members, even players.

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