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GAY U.S. LACROSSE GOALIE ME OUT TO ‘NORMALIZE WHAT MAK DIFFERENT’

At USA Lacrosse, we celebrate that anyone om anywhere should be able to play lacrosse and ’ve piled and veloped rourc to help parents, players, and lears posively nnect wh the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) muny lacrosse. Our hope is that wh this rmatn and sight hand, you’ll have the tools necsary to support the LGBTQ+ muny a meangful and productive way."I thk ’s awome that when people look at lacrosse, they will see all kds of people.” * american reunion gay lacrosse *

“I don’t know if ’s a Gen Z thg, or if ’s bee the culture on the team changed, but there were so many openly gay women on the team, and was jt awome, ” she said.

HARVARD LACROSSE PLAYER TO TEAMMAT: ‘GUYS, I’M GAY’

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. * american reunion gay lacrosse *

The terview plays on TV while Oz home and fds his hot new girliend Mia (Katra Bown) the jacuzzi wh another man who turns out to be gay. Two of his former lacrosse buddi announce their engagement (apparently half the lacrosse team was gay). Fally, Stifler is asked by the gay teammat to plan their weddg, which he accepts, and then meets Fch's mom, who is also smokg hot, and the two have sex on the lacrosse field.

Half the lacrosse team was gay. At USA Lacrosse, we celebrate that anyone om anywhere should be able to play lacrosse and ’ve piled and veloped rourc to help parents, players, and lears posively nnect wh the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) muny lacrosse. The All-Amerin goalie had stggled wh his sexualy sce he was 7, and like so many gay and transgenr kids, had ntemplated suici.

GAY ATHLET IN LACROSSE – WHAT’S THE PROBLEM HERE?

Madison Doucette ed her g out as gay lacrosse to crease acceptance. * american reunion gay lacrosse *

'"Earlier this year, another young lacrosse player realized that he was gay.

SC FEATURED STORY ON YOUNG, GAY LACROSSE PLAYER RONAT WH VIEWERS

"There's nothg wrong wh beg gay, " Braen rpond, "bee I am gay. Playg the celt of ccibl, the Syrace Carrier Dome, before 25, 000 fans, Dartmouth College's sophomore lacrosse goalie somehow has plucked Michael Sprger's pot-blank shot out of the air and starts sprtg up the curly open left sile. "As Goldste would say later, "I gus tak a gay goalie to have enough balls to sre the NCAA tournament.

But early his sophomore year at Milton Amy, his Massachetts hometown, he told a iend, was liberatg, even thrillg, but Goldste's secret stayed between the two until July 2003, two months after he sred that groundbreakg goal at Syrace. He worried that on the team's first road trip that the "unlucky guys who had to be my roommat would pla about sleepg the same room as the homo.

THE COURAGE GAME: SUPPORT GAY YOUTH, REBE BULLYG, AND PROMOTE AWARENS FOR LGBT EQUALY

" He wonred if anybody would s next to him on the team, however, several teammat approached him to apologize for homophobic language and off-lor-jok om the past. A handful of notable profsnal team-sport athlet had e out after their reers end and, to be sure, there were a number of openly gay athlet dividual sports at the Divisn I, II and III levels.

RE-LAX — MAKG LACROSSE A LEAR GAY SPORTS

Still, the 5-foot-10, 170-pound goalie was, the sports work nclud after rearchg the ntext, the most acplished male, team-sport athlete North Ameri to be openly gay durg his playg that year he was drafted by the Boston Canons of Major League Lacrosse and eventually played for the Long Island a before Amerin soccer player Robbie Rogers played for the Los Angel Galaxy of Major League Soccer, prr to Jason Colls steppg on the urt for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, before Michael Sam, a Missouri fensive end, me out advance of the 2014 NFL draft, there was Andrew Goldste. "Andrew was the first openly gay male athlete to be drafted by a profsnal sports league the Uned Stat, " said Cyd Zeigler, -founr of "And then he beme the first to play a profsnal sports league.

SC FEATURED TELLS STORY OF YOUNG GAY LACROSSE PLAYER HELPED BY 2005 ESPN FEATURE

"In 2005, the gay muny didn't want to talk about sports and the sports muny didn't want to talk about gay people. You n no longer say that gay men all jt want to listen to show tun. "The ESPN profile won a televisn journalism award om the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.

"In 2013 Goldste was enshred the gural class of Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame, joed by, among others, Marta Navratilova, Billie Jean Kg and Greg GoldsteToday, at 32, Goldste seems fortable his own sk. "I would notice that a lot of people would make, like, homosexual jok, " he explas. And then I realized that I was gay.

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