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"If my story has any lsons, should be that beg the first gay nner your world means you won’t be the last." - David Melly

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BEG OUT: ELE GAY NNER DAVID MELLY PROUD OF HIS ‘WEIRDNS’

In December, after a long personal stggle wh his sexualy, Matt Llano me out as gay. He always had been certa of one thg: He wanted to n. * gay marathon runner *

In 2013, Matt Llano me out publicly as gay when he published a blog post tled “It’s Time” on his personal webse. Acrdg to the Natnal Instute on Dg Abe, ’s not yet possible to tablish long-term trends about substance abe LGBTQ populatns given the srcy of rearch but the 2018 Natnal Survey on Dg Use and Health (NSDUH) found that those who intified as lbian, gay, or bisexual reported higher substance e than adults who intify as heterosexual.

Alone as an openly gay athlete when he joed the cross untry and track and field teams 2011, Melly was pleased that his senr season three of the five top nners intified as LGBT. Teams wh gay athlet also have a funny tenncy to be more acceptg across the board. It eaked me out a b at first when I started gettg msag om other gay athlet, often younger kids and teens, who found me and felt my story ronated wh them.

As recently as five or six years ago, I uld name a sgle openly gay nner outsi my own team. Lavenr U was a San Francis-based perdil dited to fosterg social and tnal opportuni of special tert to gays.

THIS GAY MARE FELL LOVE WH NNG WHILE HE WAS STATNED IRAQ

In the 1970s, beg gay was a subversive act. If you advertised your homosexualy to the world, nsequenc often followed.

ON TRAG, RACG, AND GROWG AS A GAY NNERON TRAG, RACG, AND GROWG AS A GAY NNER

“People uld lose their jobs if employers found out they were gay, ” Budlong told Runner’s World. Even the league for sports, like softball and bowlg, were sponsored by gay bars the area.

“I was blown away bee as a gay man, I had never lled myself an athlete.

NO LONGER AAID, GAY NNER CHAS SUCCS AT U.S. OLYMPIC MARATHON TRIALS

It was the first ntemporary gay novel to achieve mastream mercial and cril the time that Front Runners changed s name, the first Front Runners group San Francis heard om two other LGBTQ nng groups that had popped up that year New York Cy and Boston. They would munite, share ias, and send petors to the Gay Gam, an Olympic Gam for LGBTQ athlet, that started 1982 and has happened ever four years sce.

“I thk the groups stem out of the fact that the gay and lbian muni felt exclud om opportuni and this was their opportuny to get to sports a nonjudgemental space, ” Clark told Runner’s World. This fom is still held durg the off-year when the Gay Gam or Front Runners Invatnal isn’t as the untry’s attu toward the LGBTQ muny shifted to a more posive light, the group beme a nstant safe space for members.

Groups startg showg up Europe, North Ameri, and Atralia as well the 1990s, leadg to an ternatnal, they never felt the need to officially anize unr one umbrella until 1999 when the Gay Gam approached them about champng the nng events for track, road racg, and triathlons. “We have groups India, where homosexualy is illegal, and Hong Kong, where ’s a big issue and where the next Gay Gam are takg place [ 2022], ” Clark said.

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We even sponsored two nners om Kenya at the 2018 Gay Gam. You n nnect wh a gay person over the phone or other ways of munitg.

Part of Gaona’s motivatn for jog the armed forc was the abily to supprs his gay thoughts and feelgs. “I also hontly never thought I would e out, bee I didn’t want to be gay.

Intertgly enough, Gaona beiend many gay men after his stt the Mar, spe the apprehensn he was feelg about his own sexualy. 1 gay ally.

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“I surround myself around more and more gay iends until fally I started g out, ” he said. “It was actually really difficult to e out to my gay iends, bee I had built such a iendship as their straight ally. Then he dashed to Google and searched for gay nng clubs San Diego.

Three years later, Gaona met his fiancée, and now they live NYC — one of this world’s great gay mecs. As print of FRNY, Gaona is fully immersed the cy’s gay sports scene.

It was an imprsive but marathon for the Annapolis native — and still not even the bravt thg he had acplished the past December, after a long personal stggle wh his sexualy, Llano me out as gay. He didn't know of any openly gay profsnal nners, but he thought was time for one.

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"We all know there are gay athlet all sports, but only a few have e out, " Rosar said.

It ma him feel powerful, he told ABC Matt Llano, the first openly gay Amerin profsnal nner, the sport is all about perseverance and muny. It jt didn’t feel welg somehow, and I was ncerned that once other people knew I was gay, that would only get more pronounced. Sometim we have up to 25 women on a n, and some of them are gay, but even those who are not are supportive.

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It don’t matter who they are, gay or straight, they’re there for you.

We n about five every day and spend the whole time talkg—the unrstandg is that what happens n group stays n I began talkg about beg gay, I didn’t even know at first why I brought up, except that we were all discsg our stggl. As a gay person, havg this group has really helped me feel like I’m part of the muny, like I’m not alone. The are fely my iends, and feels like we’re uned not jt bee we’re all gay, or bee we’re all nners, but bee we re about each Puleo, 55, Sacramento, California Stt Kartagener/Balanced BodyWhen I was the procs of g out, nng was my rpe.

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