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Two athlet recently g out has highlighted the arth of openly gay players the world of U.S. men's profsnal sports, often dubbed "the last closet" for s lack of LGBTQ reprentatn.

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GAY TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE OUT TO TEAM AND STARTS A GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE

‘The realizatn h me that I was the first gay person any of my teammat had ever met,’ Brton Majure says after he me out as gay. * athletic gay teens *

Gay Texas high school athlete out to team and starts a Gay Straight Alliance.

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‘The realizatn h me that I was the first gay person any of my teammat had ever met, ’ Brton Majure says after he me out as gay. For high school athlete Brton Majure, g out as gay changed everythg for the better.

The weight of beg gay.

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Around the time I entered the fifth gra, I knew I was gay. I was the only gay person I knew a town that felt like was out to get me. Instead of alg wh all the challeng of beg gay, I cid that I would not tell anyone.

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However, along wh beg a sred gay kid the South, I was also the No.

I was shatterg rerds, wng first place at the meet of champns both years, and was htg tim close to those of a varsy sophomore. I wish I uld go back and w all of those rac as a gay athlete.

I would prove to all those kids who said words like “fag” that they jt got beat by a gay guy. That the gay guy shattered all of those rerds and ma them look stupid, but I didn’t. I still felt that my inty as a gay man and athlete need to rema separate for the fort of those around me.

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” and “Come on, you homo!

They mt have noticed me not lgh hard enough or my face wce bee they shouted to me om halfway across the locker room, “What Majure, are you gay? I looked him ad the eye wh shakg nfince my voice said, “Yeah, I’m gay, is there a problem?

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Somehow they uldn’t possibly fathom that I was gay.

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” “Were your born gay? ” and my personal favore, “What do gay even really mean? Brton Majure was a champn nner before g out and says, “I wish I uld go back and w all of those rac as a gay athlete.

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How uld be that they didn’t even know what gay meant?

At that moment, the realizatn h me that I was the first gay person any of my teammat had ever met.

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In fact, I beme one of the few openly gay kids at my school of over 4, 000. After I me out to my teammat — my soccer and cross-untry teams the same day — news about my beg gay spread around school fast. By the time the next week rolled around, there were people I had spoken to once askg me, “Are you actually gay?

Although my g out didn’t elimate homophobia om my teammat and ach, I saw ls.

The homophobic slurs and jok the locker room turned to teammat askg me genue qutns, and my ach’ homophobic language was, for the most part, elimated. I began to notice myself feel happier and eer as I proudly owned my inty as an athlete and a gay man on and off the field. ” It is a speech about homophobia morn sports.

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