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.
Contents:
- TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
- THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
- A NVERSATN WH T.J. CALLAN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF GAY BLACK MEN G OUT SPORTS
- GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER OMTED FROM TEAM’S YEARBOOK PAGE
- GAY TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE OUT TO TEAM AND STARTS A GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
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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.
THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
Dalton Maldonado, a gay llege-bound athlete who experienced fierce harassment after g out durg his senr year of high school, has spoken out this week about a fal blow: havg his basketball-team portra left out of the yearbook. * young gay athlete *
"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!
A NVERSATN WH T.J. CALLAN ABOUT THE HISTORY OF GAY BLACK MEN G OUT SPORTS
‘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. * young gay athlete *
Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out. "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.
GAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYER OMTED FROM TEAM’S YEARBOOK PAGE
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.
GAY TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE OUT TO TEAM AND STARTS A GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
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. He ially feared negative stereotyp about gay male athlet but threw those ncerns asi after his two-tle performance at the U. Ma Margraf, a bisexual gymnast, said she heard an anti-gay slur at BYU for the first time the summer of 2021, when she was a newly enrolled hman at the Mormon school Provo, Utah, and a r wh two BYU baseball drove past a church where people were wavg the pri flag and holdg posters support of gay rights, acrdg to Margraf, who said the scene prompted one of the baseball players to act.
I love gay people, but ’s so funny to make fun of them.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
’ ”Margraf, now a 19-year-old sophomore who had e out as bisexual earlier that year, said at least one of the baseball players also ed the N-word.
”Sce the cint, Margraf said, she has heard another BYU athlete e an anti-gay slur public.
BYU said s vtigatn unvered no evince rroboratg the allegatns, but about five weeks later, members of the Universy of Southern California women's soccer team ma siar than two weeks after the volleyball match, BYU stunts were among protters who yelled homophobic slurs at LGBTQ stunts durg an off-mp gatherg, acrdg to an Associated Prs report and other media outlets. “BYU is a place where any sort of margalizatn jt gets exacerbated, ’’ said Charlie Siraga, a gay volleyball player who played at BYU om 2017 to 2019.