Queerg Masculy: Manhood and Black Gay Men College on JSTOR

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

Queerg Masculy: Manhood and Black Gay Men College on JSTOR.

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

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

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.

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.

GAY ATHLET

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.