The U.S. Open hosted s very first Pri, and out tennis player Nick Lee was there to ask: where are the other gay men?
Contents:
- THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
- GAY MALE TENNIS PLAYERS
- 5 ACTIVE TENNIS PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY OR BISEXUAL, FT. DARIA KASATKA & SAMANTHA STOSUR
- TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
* closeted gay tennis players *
As a former men’s llegiate tennis player and openly gay member of my team, this qutn nagged at me as I attend the monumental first ever Pri event at the U. As a former llegiate tennis player and gay man, this event stck a particularly sensive chord for me.
After all of the homophobia I have personally experienced sports, the panelists and the packed dience gave me so much hope for the future of cln sports.
GAY MALE TENNIS PLAYERS
Canadian Former great In vanuver is big time gay . * closeted gay tennis players *
The trailblazer for gay visibily on the ATP tour scribed himself durg the panel discsn as “an anx guy and an anx tennis player, ” statg that his disfort wh his sexual orientatn throughout his life was a signifint ntributor to his anxiety. To me, the fact that Vahaly was even able to make on tour as a closeted gay man the 2000s mak him que an anomaly.
The days, top players Roger Ferer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have all publicly stated that they would wele an out gay man to the ATP. While we now celebrate Kg for her acplishments as a gay rights activist, the sacrific she had to make and terrors that she endured for wantg to be her thentic self after beg outed towards the end of her profsnal tennis reer – nearly 40 years ago – are unjtifiable. Statistilly speakg, there mt be a man the top 100, 200, 500 or even 1, 000 who is gay, right?
Combe that wh gay and bisexual men reprentg a signifintly smaller portn of the populatn than heterosexual men, and the odds of havg one of makg through the ranks growg up and currently beg a profsnal tennis player are slim, no matter how welg players such as Ferer, Djokovic and Murray are 2019. There uld be someone makg their way up the rankgs junrs right now, who hopefully will not be terred om tennis for beg a gay or bisexual man, who will see events such as the U.
5 ACTIVE TENNIS PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY OR BISEXUAL, FT. DARIA KASATKA & SAMANTHA STOSUR
As Rippon highlighted, g out and beg labeled as “that gay athlete” is not easy to al wh. Canadian Former great In vanuver is big time gay Anonymoreply 42September 15, 2019 9:48 PM.
He's super emotnally attached to Kokkakis (a gay whore) and to Murray and his sta is full of him and random hot guys. He's the typil down low street trash and I have no doubt that my gaydar isn't wrong this se. My iend is absolutely nvced Fed is gay.
TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
Fed is100% gay. He has this myster handsome male iends; he's bff wh Hugo Jackman and Gav Rossdale; he lov mils wh a burng passn; he's all swoony over his protégés Sascha Zverev and Grigor Dimrov - not a way a straight man would be; he married a pla, supportive wife who will do anythg to keep her good fortune; he's a, I have this Miss Marple theory that people who look alike and act alike are a lot alike personaly and Fed is the SPITTING IMAGE of one of my closeted but voracly gay this:Offse Lkby Anonymoreply 18September 12, 2019 12:40 PM. I knew a Mormon wh seven kids who was gayer than Christmasby Anonymoreply 22September 13, 2019 1:43 PM.
Jim Courier is not gay- straight, see him wheelg his kid around downtown and practicg uptown. Arthur Ashe was much more than a tennis is not gay- sheh.
Not at all the typ to be remotely homophobic. (Fed was the only player to rerd a supportive msage for a prentatn on gays tennis by an out gay tennis journalist. Rafael Nadal is ffo gay though, the only time he's seen wh his girliend is when there are paps nearby or at tennis Anonymoreply 24September 13, 2019 4:39 PM.