Jags' Maxen is first male Amerin pro sports ach to e out as gay - ESPN

Contents:

• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• I DIDN’T WANT TO BE GAY, ED SMART TELLS LGBTQ NFERENCE
• SPORT'I DIDN'T WANT TO BE GAY': ASH BRAZILL OPENS UP ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPER NETBALL'S NEW PRI MATCH
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

I like guys but I don’t want to be gay. How do I stop beg gay? You don’t need to be certa you are gay before talkg to someone or attendg an LGBTQ+ meetg.

I am a gay male. I have been out nearly 7 years now (age 16, sophomore year of HS).

I DIDN’T WANT TO BE GAY, ED SMART TELLS LGBTQ NFERENCE

That week I told my iends and fay I was gay. It is very homogeneo/ hetero-normative and beg a tholic stutn is not the easit environment for queer stunts.

Smart, 64, said that not only didn’t he want to be gay, but he was “homophobic” about . He said he has sce e to believe he was born gay.

SPORT'I DIDN'T WANT TO BE GAY': ASH BRAZILL OPENS UP ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPER NETBALL'S NEW PRI MATCH

I wanted be fahful and do all those thgs that would enable me to be a place that was the bt place that I uld be, whether was beg the bt person I uld be here on Earth or whether was beg the bt place the hereafter, ” he said was a year ago this month durg a discsn about the church wh his wife, Lois, that she asked him if he was gay.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

The suatn is I’m gay and I’m tryg to be straight. Smart, a father of six children, said he talked to church lears and a therapist who told him he wasn’t gay.

“There are two people who know that I am gay. ” Smart said he ma early morng phone lls to each of his children the day after he me out to his wife, tellg them he was gay and gettg a divorce. ”While he agonized over tellg his mother that he is gay, his wife beat him to , “which blew me away, ” Smart said.