12-year-old to gay lacrosse player: 'the day I got that vio was the bt day of my life' - Outsports

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Ten years ago, lacrosse player Andrew Goldste beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted by a profsnal sports team. Today, he's spirg a new generatn of young athlet.

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At USA Lacrosse, we celebrate that anyone om anywhere should be able to play lacrosse and ’ve piled and veloped rourc to help parents, players, and lears posively nnect wh the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) muny lacrosse. This week, I was talkg at a school wh an emergg group of terted lacrosse players, and I brought up the ia of recg openly gay/lbian athlet om other sports, and om wh the muny, to help grow the game. But at the end of the day, all of the exclnary practic are makg me ask the qutn: are “lax bros” homophobic?

Homosexualy is still not somethg that is talked about very openly our society. However, wh all that said, and wh all this growth, is the marketg of lacrosse broad enough to appeal to the Gay/Lbian muny? So why do people still thk ’s okay to say the same thg about homosexuals?

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At USA Lacrosse, we celebrate that anyone om anywhere should be able to play lacrosse and ’ve piled and veloped rourc to help parents, players, and lears posively nnect wh the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) muny lacrosse. Our hope is that wh this rmatn and sight hand, you’ll have the tools necsary to support the LGBTQ+ muny a meangful and productive way."I thk ’s awome that when people look at lacrosse, they will see all kds of people.” * gay club lacrosse *

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12-YEAR-OLD TO GAY LACROSSE PLAYER: 'THE DAY I GOT THAT VIO WAS THE BT DAY OF MY LIFE'

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'"Earlier this year, another young lacrosse player realized that he was gay. "There's nothg wrong wh beg gay, " Braen rpond, "bee I am gay.

Playg the celt of ccibl, the Syrace Carrier Dome, before 25, 000 fans, Dartmouth College's sophomore lacrosse goalie somehow has plucked Michael Sprger's pot-blank shot out of the air and starts sprtg up the curly open left sile.

"As Goldste would say later, "I gus tak a gay goalie to have enough balls to sre the NCAA tournament. But early his sophomore year at Milton Amy, his Massachetts hometown, he told a iend, was liberatg, even thrillg, but Goldste's secret stayed between the two until July 2003, two months after he sred that groundbreakg goal at Syrace. He worried that on the team's first road trip that the "unlucky guys who had to be my roommat would pla about sleepg the same room as the homo.

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" He wonred if anybody would s next to him on the team, however, several teammat approached him to apologize for homophobic language and off-lor-jok om the past.

A handful of notable profsnal team-sport athlet had e out after their reers end and, to be sure, there were a number of openly gay athlet dividual sports at the Divisn I, II and III levels. Still, the 5-foot-10, 170-pound goalie was, the sports work nclud after rearchg the ntext, the most acplished male, team-sport athlete North Ameri to be openly gay durg his playg that year he was drafted by the Boston Canons of Major League Lacrosse and eventually played for the Long Island a before Amerin soccer player Robbie Rogers played for the Los Angel Galaxy of Major League Soccer, prr to Jason Colls steppg on the urt for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, before Michael Sam, a Missouri fensive end, me out advance of the 2014 NFL draft, there was Andrew Goldste. "Andrew was the first openly gay male athlete to be drafted by a profsnal sports league the Uned Stat, " said Cyd Zeigler, -founr of "And then he beme the first to play a profsnal sports league.

"In 2005, the gay muny didn't want to talk about sports and the sports muny didn't want to talk about gay people. You n no longer say that gay men all jt want to listen to show tun.

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"The ESPN profile won a televisn journalism award om the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. "In 2013 Goldste was enshred the gural class of Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame, joed by, among others, Marta Navratilova, Billie Jean Kg and Greg GoldsteToday, at 32, Goldste seems fortable his own sk.

"I would notice that a lot of people would make, like, homosexual jok, " he explas.

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"They all say the same thg -- are you gay? "So we go to Braen's room and ask him, 'Are you gay?

One boy at his school told Braen he was gog to hell bee beg gay wasn't mentned the Bible.

"Stt had found the statistics on-le: The suici rate for gay teens is thought to be four tim the natnal average.

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"Makg a nnectnFive weeks after Braen me out, on March 16, the Lang found Andrew remembered seeg a televisn piece on a gay lacrosse player and wh a few mut she had Googled the ESPN feature. On the day before the 2015 Divisn I lacrosse champnship game between Denver and Maryland at Lln Fancial Field Philalphia, a few away on the mp of Pennsylvania Universy, several hundred people, gay lacrosse players and their alli, gathered for The Courage Game. This meant that we uldn’t be a bunch of “faggots over there on the baseball team” or “gay-ass soccer players” as my teammat would put .

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