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"If my story has any lsons, should be that beg the first gay nner your world means you won’t be the last." - David Melly

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BEG OUT: ELE GAY NNER DAVID MELLY PROUD OF HIS ‘WEIRDNS’

Matt Llano, a profsnal distance nner and former Richmond spir, out publicly as gay and shar his journey a new vio. * gay distance runner *

10:53Download AudCopy the below to embed the WBUR d player on your seRumeProfsnal nner Nikki Hiltz recently cid was time to share a middle-distance nner had been openly gay for years, but was durg a virtual fundraiser last summer about suici preventn for LGBTQ youth that Hiltz realized was time to tell the whole people ed the race as an opportuny to e out, so Hiltz wanted to hear their stori before this year’s event. Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.

I'm a footballer and I'm gay.

"He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay. In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay! Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out.

MATT LLANO, PROFSNAL DISTANCE NNER ARIZONA, OUT AS GAY

* gay distance runner *

"I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay, " he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media. The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract.

I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. "He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay.

Hiltz had prevly e out as gay while llege and has been a visible and affirmg prence for gay athlet the past. Corey Walsh, the 27-year-old pro BMX rir and Vans spokperson, said he isn't normally the type of person to "let people " on his personal life, but felt was important to e out as gay a March Instagram post bee "there are a lot of people still stgglg wh the same suatns" and he "jt wanted to let people know that they are not alone. Champn long track speedskater Conor McDermott-Mostowy never hid beg gay om his fay, iends, and fellow athlet, but he also wasn't one to rate his locker wh rabow Pri flags eher.

ON TRAG, RACG, AND GROWG AS A GAY NNERON TRAG, RACG, AND GROWG AS A GAY NNER

He ially feared negative stereotyp about gay male athlet but threw those ncerns asi after his two-tle performance at the U.

A ACH AND A SPORT HELPED LLEGE NNER E OUT AS GAY

Alone as an openly gay athlete when he joed the cross untry and track and field teams 2011, Melly was pleased that his senr season three of the five top nners intified as LGBT. Teams wh gay athlet also have a funny tenncy to be more acceptg across the board.

It eaked me out a b at first when I started gettg msag om other gay athlet, often younger kids and teens, who found me and felt my story ronated wh them.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY DISTANCE RUNNER

Beg Out: Ele gay nner David Melly is proud of his ‘weirdns’ - Outsports .

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