Gay Rugby Player, Bobsledr Simon Dunn Di at 35

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• GAY RUGBY PLAYER, BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN DI AT 35
• GAY GBY PLAYER, BOBSLEDR, ACTIVIST SIMON DUNN DI AT 35
• GAY GBY AND BOBSLED STAR SIMON DUNN DI SUDNLY AGED 35

GAY RUGBY PLAYER, BOBSLEDR SIMON DUNN DI AT 35

"As an out gay athlete, Dunn fiercely advoted for LGBTQ+ cln the world of sports and fought back agast anti-gay rhetoric the field.

He was ma history when he earned a spot on the Atralian bobsleddg team, the first out gay man the sport.

He also played for the Sydney Convicts, the profsnal gby team ma up entirely of gay players. 1674436812Dunn had been an avid gby player when he was younger but stepped away om playg large part due to the homophobia the sport.

GAY GBY PLAYER, BOBSLEDR, ACTIVIST SIMON DUNN DI AT 35

He ced an episo where a straight player on his high school team qutned whether a gay person should be a scm. “Havg your own teammat not wantg you on the field was tough and was part of the reason why I qu the game, actually all sport, for a nsirable amount of time, ” he told ESPN left sports and the untry for a perd, but eventually returned to Atralia and tried out for the all-gay Sydney Convicts gby team.

“You learn to believe a gay person don't have a place the sportg field, ” he said. Simon Dunn, an openly gay bobsledr and gby player who beme an advote for LGBTQ , died Saturday Sydney, Atralia. “He was a passnate advote for LGBTQIA+ reprentatn sport, speakg about his experienc of homophobia his younger years, ” a statement om the HIV support group Bobby Goldsmh Foundatn said.

Dunn played gby wh gay-oriented teams London and Sydney and then moved to Canada while he tackled bobsled, hopg to qualify for the Olympics.

GAY GBY AND BOBSLED STAR SIMON DUNN DI SUDNLY AGED 35

Atralian gymnast Heath Thorpe, himself gay, posted a lovg tribute to his iend on Twter:. Simon Dunn, Atralia’s first openly gay bobsledr, and gby player, has died sudnly at the age of jt 35.