NFL ach be first male ach major U.S. men’s pro sports to e out as gay

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Melbourne Uned startg centre Isaac Humphri has announced that he is gay and said he hop his cisn to go public will give nfince to other profsnal athlet to do the same.

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FORMER KENTUCKY WILDT, PRO BASKETBALL PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS GAY

Isaac Humphri also played 5 gam for the Atlanta Hawks 2019. He’s the latt pro athlete to e out as gay. * basketball player comes out gay *

Isaac Humphri — a profsnal basketball player Atralia who played for the Kentucky Wildts — has e out publicly as gay an op-ed for CNN. In the op-ed Humphri, 24, talks about growg up sports, Atralia and elsewhere, and never seeg other out gay men.

“I was around some of the most succsful people the world – everyone om micians, televisn and film producers, media personali, A-list celebri – and got to see that beg openly gay n e wh joy. He clared for the NBA Draft after his sophomore year wh Kentucky, gog undrafted.

They appld and hug him, showg yet aga how the level of homophobia sports is simply not remotely what we’ve been told is. Humphri jos Jason Colls the NBA, Uri Kokia Israel and Mar Lehmann Swzerland as gay athlet who have e out publicly while petg profsnal basketball.

HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL

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As each of them has found, g out sports and beg gay are not wispread problems anymore. When John Amaechi me out publicly 2007, he was ahead of his time, sharg that he’s gay and a former profsnal basketball player. Sce Colls showed the world you uld be a gay man profsnal basketball, there has been a trickle of gay athlet to follow, most recently former NBA player and current Atralian pro basketball player Isaac Humphri.

Here are the gay men who have blazed a trail on basketball urts around the world. Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.

FORMER KENTUCKY PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI COM OUT AS GAY EMOTNAL VIO: 'I JT WANT TO BE MYSELF'

Former Kentucky basketball player and current Melbourne Uned center Isaac Humphri sat down for an emotnal nversatn wh his teammat to announce he is gay" emprop="scriptn * basketball player comes out gay *

I'm a footballer and I'm gay.

"He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay. In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay!

FORMER NBA, KENTUCKY PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI OUT AS ONLY ACTIVE GAY PLAYER TOP-TIER MEN'S BASKETBALL

Kev Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach major U.S. profsnal men's sports to publicly e out as gay. * basketball player comes out gay *

Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out. "I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay, " he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media. The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract.

I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay.

The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. "He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay.

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Hiltz had prevly e out as gay while llege and has been a visible and affirmg prence for gay athlet the past. Corey Walsh, the 27-year-old pro BMX rir and Vans spokperson, said he isn't normally the type of person to "let people " on his personal life, but felt was important to e out as gay a March Instagram post bee "there are a lot of people still stgglg wh the same suatns" and he "jt wanted to let people know that they are not alone. Champn long track speedskater Conor McDermott-Mostowy never hid beg gay om his fay, iends, and fellow athlet, but he also wasn't one to rate his locker wh rabow Pri flags eher.

He ially feared negative stereotyp about gay male athlet but threw those ncerns asi after his two-tle performance at the U. Isaac Humphri, a former Universy of Kentucky men's basketball player, beme the only openly gay player the Natnal Basketball League, Atralia's top league.

Humphri released a vio on his Twter acunt Wednday Atralia (Tuday eveng ET) where he sat down wh his Melbourne Uned teammat and told them he is gay and attempted to take his own life a few years ago.

BASKETBALL PLAYER ISAAC HUMPHRI BE 1ST OPENLY GAY PLAYER ACTIVE ATRALIA'S NBL

"You n be 'Big Ice' and be gay and you n still be a great basketball player and be gay, " he told his teammat. "And the ma reason behd me beg so low and beg that pot is bee I was very much stgglg wh my sexualy and g to terms wh the fact that I'm gay, " he said. "He said he eventually found a muny "full of pri and happs and joy" and cid when he joed a new team he would publicly e out as gay to be an example gay players "don't have to hi jt bee you're an athlete.

"In a gut lumn on CNN, Humphri expand on his announcement, sayg he did not feel he uld exist as an "openly gay man while playg basketball.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

8 rebounds 38 gam as a sophomore. He's the only openly gay player the NBL, acrdg to ESPN. Humphri, who plays for Melbourne Uned Atralia's Natnal Basketball League, had never prevly spoken publicly about his sexualy out of fear would negatively impact his now, he says he feels ready to "live my te life" and bee the world's only openly gay man playg top-flight basketball.

"Forever, I thought that beg a profsnal basketball player and gay were mutually exclive and that I had to hi that si of my life and wasn't allowed to be who I tly am, " Humphri exclively tells CNN Sport's Amanda Davi. Bee I believe that I n be who I am my environment, and I n change the trajectory of how we view beg gay sport. "In 2013, former NBA player Jason Colls beme the first openly gay athlete one of the four major North Amerin sports leagu when he me out late his recently, Josh Cavallo, who plays for Alai Uned Atralia's A League, beme the only current openly gay top-flight male soccer player when he me out last for Humphri, he says g to terms wh his sexualy drove him to a "very dark" and "very lonely" place before feelg fortable enough to e out.

"My self-hate, my self-homophobia -- everythg that realm was very, very real wh my bra and got so dark that I absolutely thought about exg this world, " he adds.

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