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THE GAY LLEGE TRACK STARS ARE BT IENDS AND CHAMPNS

Tom Wadll, an athlete the 1968 Olympics, created the Gay Gam first held 1982 to celebrate LGBTQ cln. The Gay Gam are still held to this day wh the next round schled for 2022 Hong Kong. * gay track and field *

To improve LGBTQ reprentatn profsnal sports, Schweighofer and Denison said, ach and lears youth sports should set a precent that homophobic language and discrimatn are unacceptable.

Sometim the Gam have taken place untri where homosexualy is not wily accepted or where legislatn impacts LGBTQ rints.

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Denis Fnegan is one of the most rated gay athlet track & field to e out publicly. He jt wants to help. * gay track and field *

Denison’s rearch fds that most LGBTQ athlet leave their sports as young people, a parture driven by a culture of homophobic language and stereotyp.

Daley has said that while he’s accepted his sport of divg, he often pet agast divers om untri where beg gay is crimalized. And Rapoe 2018 said that, as a kid, she “would have loved to have more rmatn” about what meant to be gay and why g homophobic slurs was wrong.

“Anytime you hear somebody say, ‘Oh, that’s gay, ’ or whatever, those thgs matter, ” said Rapoe, who didn’t e out to her teammat until llege. Homophobic slurs ntue to be prevalent sports – a 2020 study om Out on the Fields, which studi LGBTQ cln sports, found that more than 80% of gay participants had heard them ed while playg. When ach and teammat e gay slurs equently, sends the msage that the language is harmls and OK to e – and solidifi the belief that all members of the team are heterosexual, Denison said.

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The same Out on the Fields study reported that over 81% of gay men unr 22 hid their sexualy to avoid rejectn by teammat or discrimatn by ach or officials, among other reasons. But we n assume that many s, gay players will jt drop out of their sport.

DENIS FNEGAN, 10-TIME NATNAL CHAMPN, OUT AS GAY

That’s a problem for profsnal sports – wh few gay players sport, there will be even fewer who will make profsnally.

“Boys and young men are tght to avoid anythg associated wh femy, most notably weakns, emotn, and homosexualy, ” said Schweighofer, whose work on LGBTQ cln sports has appeared the publitn of the Natnal Park Foundatn. The same homophobic norms that affect men sports impact women and girls, too, and they origated the 19th century, Denison said.

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Homophobic stereotyp of women athlet, though no longer based on women’s abily to reproduce, persist today, Denison said. The two gay llege track stars jt fished a champnship season at Colorado State Universy, wng the 2021 Mounta Wt Men’s Outdoor Track & Field tle. “Sometim, you jt need the gay sh, ” LaRance said.

“We started dog watch parti for RuPl’s Drag Race, and we listen to our gay mic.

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But most importantly, there is the “gay sh. I was happy to have someone to actually have gay nversatns.

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Wh Covid-19 rtrictns lifted, LaRance and Golbe are lookg forward to a hot gay summer.

The other four athlet are gay. “Beg gay don’t hr you any way.

“The stigma of that you n’t be a strong llegiate athlete and gay is dyg off. Jab Cornish (sophomore, Texas divg) fished fourth at Sunday’s USA Divg Senr Natnal Champnships on platform wh a sre of 342. Michael Holland (sophomore, Felician baseball) did not pch the fal four gam of the season as the Goln Falns (30-25 overall) went 2-2 the CACC Tournament on May 10-13.

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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.

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"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.

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