Sex Liv of College Boys: New Show Centers Black Gay Love

Contents:

• THIS BLACK GAY LLEGE ATHLETE OM THE SOUTH HAS FOUND NOTHG BUT LOVE AND SUPPORT
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY ATHLET

THIS BLACK GAY LLEGE ATHLETE OM THE SOUTH HAS FOUND NOTHG BUT LOVE AND SUPPORT

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As high school crept to my sophomore and junr years jt a few years ago, I had started realizg I was different.

I pletely unrtimated how hard would be to say those two words: “I’m gay. "Not that 's a big al or anythg, but I'm gay. Like most mothers of gay teens, she said that she had known for years and was wag for me to tell her.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

I cid I would be upont and say y if anybody asked if I'm gay, but that was only if they were to ask.

Early on durg my first semter at Limtone I was hangg out wh a few iends om band when I was asked if I was gay. So, I jt me straight out and told them that I was gay. I'd read g out stori of black men gettg pletely shunned by their fellow black iends bee they were gay.

I didn't want beg gay to pletely cut me off om the people that I spent most of my day wh. Halfway through my sophomore year at Limtone College I got very unhappy.

GAY ATHLET

To be pletely hont, wh this school beg Texas, I was a ltle ncerned about how my new teammat would react when they found out they had gay teammate. As if the rabows weren't enough to nvce people I was gay, I also posted a picture of my boyiend on Instagram to further solidify what some of my teammat may have already been thkg.

I ially lored the rabows to drop a ht that I was gay, but beme so much more than that. Every time I put on my spik I am displayg that I am gay and I am an athlete.