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Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• KELLY HOLM ON G OUT AS GAY: ‘SOMETIM I CRY WH RELIEF’
• LOVE ALL: HOW MEGAN RAPOE AND OTHER GAY PLAYERS ARE TAKG SPORT TO A HIGHER LEVEL
• IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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The Brish distance swimmer and Olympian publicly me out as gay June after petg at the World Champnships Budapt.

KELLY HOLM ON G OUT AS GAY: ‘SOMETIM I CRY WH RELIEF’

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LOVE ALL: HOW MEGAN RAPOE AND OTHER GAY PLAYERS ARE TAKG SPORT TO A HIGHER LEVEL

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IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

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"I put a post on my social media tellg folk I was gay, " he said of the cisn. Atralian basketball player Isaac Humphri wrote an op-ed November 2022 g out as a gay man. "Over my entire reer, there was no realy that existed where I uld be an openly gay man while playg basketball, " the basketball player wrote.

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