Gay men are nearly visible golf, but we’re not non-existent

Contents:

• TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY
• ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLETGAY GOLFERS LIST: PGA PLAYERS, PROS, AND COLLEGE ATHLET
• IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS
• PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY
• GAY GOLF PRO SE SPORT AS MORE ACCEPTG AND WANTS GOLFERS TO E OUT
• 81 PERCENT PGA TOUR PRO SURVEY THK THERE'S A GAY PRO ON TOUR
• LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?
• I’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO GOLF DDIE TODD MONTOYA HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
• GAY GOLF PRO OUT TO CHANGE PERCEPTNS NSERVATIVE SPORT
• PROFSNAL GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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

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

So…I'm gay. __An openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago.

ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y

But the PGA Tour remas uncharted terrory for homosexuals.

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While women's golf has had several openly gay players through the years, the men's tour is wag on s first.

IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS

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. "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.

PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY

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.

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

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. In fact, there’s been only one golfer ever to play on the PGA Tour — Tadd Fujikawa — to e out as gay.

We’ve had an out gay player w the MLS Cup. I thk a lot of them probably don’t re if someone is gay, but if we don’t talk about the issue don’t get rolved. On the flip si, var men’s profsnal golfers have been phed to apologi for homophobic or off-lor ments or slurs they’ve uttered — Jt Thomas beg the most-discsed recent years.

There was also an iative at the PGA Champnship a uple years ago where lol gay golf pro Greg Fzgerald had been anizg an entire Pri Day — That effort got turned to a virtual event the rponse to the COVID-19 panmic. Caddie Todd Montoya recently me out as gay, and Palm Sprgs-area golf pro Kyle Wn has also shared his story. Still, you n unt the number of out gay players at a Major men’s golf tournament on exactly zero fgers.

81 PERCENT PGA TOUR PRO SURVEY THK THERE'S A GAY PRO ON TOUR

PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya has revealed he is gay. Montoya ma the revelatn on the Golf Channel, and is believed to be the first openly gay ddie on the Tour. In an emotnal terview, the New Mexin, who ddi for Brian Stuard, explaed his cisn to e out to reporter Kira K Dixon: “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 explaed that he told Doug LaBelle II, who he ed to ddie for, the news 2006, and his reactn gave him nfince: "I lled him up and said, 'Hey, Dougie, there's somethg really important I want to tell you, ' and I said, 'I'm gay'. '"Although Montoya is believed to be the first openly gay ddie on the PGA Tour, his news follows profsnal golfer Tadd Fujikawa, who also opened up about his sexualy 2018.

On one hand, there are no out gay profsnal golfers. This is disappotg bee there are certa to be gay players the profsnal golf circu.

LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT

What is holdg back the male gay players om g out? The first profsnal male golfer to e out as gay is nsired to be Tadd Fujikawa of the Uned Stat. This may, part, expla the plete absence of a gay profsnal golfer.

There also rema stanc of homophobic slurs on the greens and the locker rooms. Greg Fzgerald is an openly gay golf pro and he thks the sport is ready for more out members, even players.

I’m glad that I’m gay, now that the U.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?

I’m sure I would have been able to live a fe life as a straight man, but as a gay, redhead, golf pro I thk I stand out enough to be noticed and make a difference. Up until a few years ago, I thought I was the only gay, male golf pro the world. I got my boss and the three other golf pros om our staff together the office and told them I was gay.

It was at a self-velopment nference I was at December 2016 that I realized that pretendg all those years the golf bs meant that I was actually still not pletely OK wh beg gay.

I’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .

After a pse, I said, I’ve been pretendg that I’m straight my reer, when I’m really gay.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO GOLF DDIE TODD MONTOYA HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

That was the first time I spoke about beg gay to strangers openly, and the first time I realized thgs had to change. However, straight men Ameri are transformg gradually to where they n know gay me, and know that gay men are not gog to e on to them the locker room.

Carl Nassib ma history 2021 by beg the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL.

In 2021, Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. In June 2021, NFL fensive end Carl Nassib me out as gay a vio posted to his Instagram, addg he donated $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, an anizatn that foc on suici preventn LGBTQ youth after he stggled wh his sexualy for 15 years. "I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay, " Nassib said the vio.

GAY GOLF PRO OUT TO CHANGE PERCEPTNS NSERVATIVE SPORT

Le Prokop beme the first NHL player to e out as gay.

"Acrdg to USA Today, no NHL player — active or retired — had e out as gay. Michael Sam was the first openly gay man to be drafted to the NFL.

In 2014, Michael Sam me out as gay an terview wh ESPN and ma history that same year. Louis Rams, beg the first openly gay man to ever be drafted to the NFL. "Sce Febary and my big announcement, this has been a whole [lot of] speculatn of the first openly gay football player, but you know what?

PROFSNAL GOLFER TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS GAY

Soccer star Megan Rapoe is openly gay. The athlete quickly ma a name for herself a seri of TV terviews, where she voiced her support of women's rights and LGBTQ rights as an openly gay woman.

"I thk female athlet, general, are at the foreont of every prott general bee we're gay, we're women, we're women of lor, we're sort of everythg all at one time, " Rapoe told NBC news 2019.

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

Sue Bird me out as gay 2017 and announced she is datg Megan Rapoe.

Ryan O'Callaghan me out as gay after retirg om the NFL. The thgs you hear as a child—every time you hear someone say 'f----t' or talk bad about a gay guy, or see somethg on TV and make fun of that. John Amaechi me out as gay 2007, four years after retirg om the NBA.

" He scribed hidg his sexualy while playg for the Utah Jazz, but said some teammat who spected he was gay were welg about a 2007 terview on "Outsi the L, " Amaechi, who played five seasons the NBA, said he thought there were other gay players the league, but said 's "terrifyg" for some to e out. Robbie Rogers was the first openly gay soccer player a profsnal league. Robbie Rogers played soccer England until 2013 when he announced he was gay and leavg the sport.