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

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• 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. 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.

GAY CURLER OUT PUBLICLY THE MIDDLE OF NATNAL CHAMPNSHIP N

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?

OPENLY GAY CURLER JOHN EPPG WS BRONZE MEDAL AT CANADIAN CHAMPNSHIPS

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