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TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY

A very short gay golfers list on PGA tour, llege athlet, golf pros. Tadd Fujikawa is first ever out pro golfer. Also clu Greg Fzgerald and Chris Noble * gay golfer comes out *

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. “So…I’m gay, ” he wrote.

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Amerin golfer Tadd Fujikawa has announced he is gay a heartfelt Instagram post. * gay golfer comes out *

Tadd Fujikawa has bee the first male pro to e out publicly as gay.

CADDIE OF MICHIGAN PGA TOUR PLAYER OUT AS GAY, BOSS 'HAS GIVEN ME MY EEDOM'

Greg Fzgerald is an openly gay golf pro and he thks the sport is ready for more out members, even players. * gay golfer comes out *

So…I'm gay.

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The New Mexi native — who has ddied for Ryan Blm, Charlie Wi, Ryuji Imada, Billy Mayfair, Stt Gutschewski, Doug LaBelle II, Tag Ridgs, Nicholas Thompson, Kev Durk and now Brian Stuard — was hant to open up to most the golf muny about beg gay. “Somethg that you kept secret for so many years amongst people that you nsir your iends and your -workers — over the urse of time, you grow close to them and until people that I re about know that I’m gay, they really don’t know me for my entirety, ” Montoya said.

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Ju Children’s Rearch Hospal Albuquerque, New Mexi that ted him a half-ln-dollar home, is believed to now be the first openly gay ddie on the PGA Tour.

PROFSNAL GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY

PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya me out as gay an emotnal terview on the Golf Channel on Monday night.

PGA TOUR PLAYER OUT AS GAY

"Somethg that you kept secret for so many years amongst people that you nsir your iends and your -workers -- over the urse of time, you grow close to them and until people that I re about know that I'm gay, they really don't know me for my entirety, " Montoya told Golf Channel reporter Kira Dixon. A native of New Mexi, Montoya, who is reportedly believed to be the first known out, gay ddie on the PGA Tour (acrdg to Golfweek), spoke of his early love for golf, but how he kept his sexualy secret for fear of the impact would have on his life and potential reer.

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"I said there's somethg really important that I wanted to tell you and I said, 'I'm gay, '" Montoya revealed. Longtime PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya had for several years rried wh him a secret much heavier than those staff bags, tellg only a handful of people clost to week, an terview wh Golf Channel, Montoya publicly me out as gay, and creded his boss and Michigan native Brian Stuard's acceptance for havg "given me my eedom" when he nfid him several months ago. Montaya nsirs Stuard the golfer he's most enjoyed workg wh over the years, and that was even before tellg Stuard he was gay.

For many years I was openly gay away om the golf urse, but at work I was a closeted profsnal and my two inti didn’t merge.

GAY GOLF PRO SE SPORT AS MORE ACCEPTG AND WANTS GOLFERS TO E OUT

The golf dtry is nservative and for me that has been a stggle as a gay golf profsnal.

Not only was I gettg e to a new facily, I was also tryg to figure out which -workers I uld tst and which members might be OK wh me beg gay. One night I was dancg at Club Dakota, a gay bar Santa Cz, California, when a golf member I knew who was straight me wh his girliend.

FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER OUT AS GAY

To me that sums up the golf dtry many ways — ’s a place some people n ngregate and e racist, misogynist and homophobic terms and get away wh bee “they’re at a golf urse. For me, that’s why I am now more out as a gay golf profsnal, bee giv me the opportuny to open someone else’s ey, and also giv them the opportuny to surprise me wh their acceptance. His wife was the ladi club print at the time and after I slowly me out to some of the women, word spread about me beg gay.

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I thk ’s often overlooked that a part of g out is an ongog battle agast your own ternal homophobia.

TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE PRO GOLFER

I have tablished many relatnships wh members, guts, -workers and fellow gay golfers, pecially as I have gotten more fortable my own sk. Gay Golfers List: PGA Players, Pros, and College Athlet.

After our Grandma Aka read our post on Gay Wrtlers, she was like, “Ohhh, I didn’t know there are many of them. After all, there are probably thoands of wrtlers out there grapplg for the big dogs like WWE and the Lucha Unrground as well as the ls known on the die wa, this is supposed to be a gay golfers list, why are we gettg distracted by wrtlg? ” [Via The Guardian]Another gay golfer featured on Outsports is Chris Noble who played for the golf team of the Holy Cross College at Notre Dame.

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Tadd Fujikawa be first male pro golfer to e out as gay .

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