By Sam WemanAn openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago. The NBA's Jason Colls, after g out a Sports Illtrated...
Contents:
- ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y
- TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
- 81 PERCENT PGA TOUR PRO SURVEY THK THERE'S A GAY PRO ON TOUR
- TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY
- LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
- IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS
ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y
* gay golfers on pga tour *
__An openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago. But the PGA Tour remas uncharted terrory for homosexuals. While women's golf has had several openly gay players through the years, the men's tour is wag on s first.
TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
Let’s be clear right om the start. None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that. The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surro * gay golfers on pga tour *
And, as Brandt Sneker said on the upg season premiere of Golf Channel's "Feherty, " that's probably not bee of an absence of gay golfers -- jt none willg to make their sexual preference public. "I don't believe that at all, " Brandt Sneker said when host David Feherty remarked the tour don't have any gay players.
"I don't thk a gay golfer is gog to be that big of a al. But Sneker said he would enurage a gay golfer to e out if he was ready.
81 PERCENT PGA TOUR PRO SURVEY THK THERE'S A GAY PRO ON TOUR
The anonymo ments about the PGA Tour havg a gay member are pretty tertg. * gay golfers on pga tour *
"The fact that the tour don't have an openly gay player -- I don't know if there is or isn't, but odds are there probably is a gay person on the PGA Tour. None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that.
The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surroundg the players, not to nvce the rear that the athlet are gay.
In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg.
TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY
This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate. In 2011, mors began swirlg that Selby was gay, or at least bi-cur. Curry however, is also known by some bee of the allegatns that he is gay.
LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
His ex-wife has acced him of beg gay and that Dunn’s lover om llege actually lived wh them for the first few years of their marriage. The mors about him potentially beg gay have been gog on sce the early 2000s. This mor was that a member of the New York Mets was gay and people were speculatg that was Piazza.
Qutns about Aikman's sexual orientatn have been around for s and the mor was started by Skip Bayls, when, his book, he stated that Troy Aikman might be gay.
In a recent anonymo poll of PGA, LPGA and Champns Tour players nducted by, 81 percent of PGA Tour players said they thk there are gay players on the PGA Tour. You know golf's day is g -- whether 's next week or next -- when a player out as gay, and will be tertg to see how players on the PGA Tour rpond. On Tuday, Fujikawa beme the first profsnal golfer to e out publicly as gay, hopg to serve as “an spiratn and makg a difference someone’s life.
IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS
“So…I’m gay, ” he wrote. Tadd Fujikawa has bee the first male pro to e out publicly as gay. So…I'm gay.
This month the PGA of Ameri has been spotlightg gay members, and for several years has strsed that golf’s long-term health and enomy mands drawg a more diverse dience.