Ten years ago, lacrosse player Andrew Goldste beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted by a profsnal sports team. Today, he's spirg a new generatn of young athlet.
Contents:
- HARVARD LACROSSE PLAYER TO TEAMMAT: ‘GUYS, I’M GAY’
- GAY ATHLET IN LACROSSE – WHAT’S THE PROBLEM HERE?
- GAY LLEGE PLAYER SAYS LACROSSE NEEDS TO NORMALIZE G OUT
- GAY U.S. LACROSSE GOALIE ME OUT TO ‘NORMALIZE WHAT MAK DIFFERENT’
HARVARD LACROSSE PLAYER TO TEAMMAT: ‘GUYS, I’M GAY’
* is lacrosse a gay sport *
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.
GAY ATHLET IN LACROSSE – WHAT’S THE PROBLEM HERE?
Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Noah Knopf was received warmly after g out to his Harvard teammat, but says the sport has to al wh an graed homophobia.
GAY LLEGE PLAYER SAYS LACROSSE NEEDS TO NORMALIZE G OUT
“I wanted to talk to you this morng to tell you that I’m gay. “I uld tell people that I’m gay. When I was 19, I heard on a podst that the new ernor of Colorado was gay, and felt for a moment that the world might be changg.
GAY U.S. LACROSSE GOALIE ME OUT TO ‘NORMALIZE WHAT MAK DIFFERENT’
Never had I properly acknowledged the fact that I was gay.
While bshg my teeth a few nights before talkg to my parents, I realized that I had never even said the words “I’m gay” out loud before. “I’m gay, ” I whispered the mirror, and sed to myself. I also felt the need to expla myself my first few nversatns about beg gay.