Matchup of two openly gay skips at Brier a w for clivy sports | Toronto Sun

Contents:

• MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
• GAY CURLER OUT PUBLICLY THE MIDDLE OF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP N
• OPENLY GAY CURLER JOHN EPPG WS BRONZE MEDAL AT CANADIAN CHAMPNSHIPS
• OUT AT THE BRIER: GAY CURLER FULFILS CHILDHOOD DREAM

MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS

He publicly me out as gay 2012, and says he was embraced around the sport.

GAY CURLER OUT PUBLICLY THE MIDDLE OF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP N

But as the only openly gay star male athlete major North Amerin sports, he feels a rponsibily to talk about his sexualy — and hop his example will empower others. In major North Amerin sports — and certaly Canada, curlg is among them — Eppg stands alone as an openly gay, star male athlete. No player NHL history has ever e out; Jason Colls did jt before he played his fal NBA season 2013–14; a uple MLB players have e out after their reers end; and NFL draft pick Michael Sam announced he was gay after his llege football reer was over.

Coll Mart played three MLS gam last season after g out 2018, five years after fellow pro soccer player Robbie Rogers beme the first openly gay man to pete a top North Amerin sports league. Few have followed Rogers’s footsteps: Openly gay male role mols major sports are fewer than few-and-far-between. Bee then why are we aaid to be gay?

“I was never told, ‘You nnot be gay’ — nobody’s ever said that.

OPENLY GAY CURLER JOHN EPPG WS BRONZE MEDAL AT CANADIAN CHAMPNSHIPS

But ’s jt not somethg we brought up, that you n be gay.

OUT AT THE BRIER: GAY CURLER FULFILS CHILDHOOD DREAM

Eppg kept his feelgs to himself — he scrib the realizatn as “a very slow procs” — and a uple years later he told a close iend that he was gay. Only one of his high-school iends was upset at the news, and not bee he was gay. His mom’s was that he’d cut ti wh his fay — she’d had a iend growg up who was gay, and he’d moved to Toronto, and she never heard om him aga.