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THIS ELE ILLOIS HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER IS PROUDLY GAY
It was only a uple weeks after startg to date his boyiend that Stevenson High School’s gay star wrtler, Dylan Geick, cid the closet wasn’t for him. When he me out surprised some people that this ele wrtler was gay. He was a nference nner-up as a sophomore.
“It jt so happened that all of those kids, even those who maybe had a homophobic view before were able to see past that, and are still my iends, and we are much closer even now, ” Geick told his school newspaper, The Statman. Sce that day, Geick hasn’t heard a sgle homophobic ment om his teammat.
Even his petors have stayed away om harassg him about beg gay. The entire regular season had gone by whout an cint, but headg to the state meet a petg wrtler tracked down Geick’s Instagram acunt and cid to leave a bg msage about Geick beg gay.