Nick Albiero, 28-time All-Amerin swimmer, is gay OIympic hopeful - Outsports

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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• NICK ALBIERO, 28-TIME ALL-AMERIN SWIMMER, IS GAY OIYMPIC HOPEFUL
• THIS GAY SWIMMER JT WON ANOTHER MEDAL & HE’S GUNNG FOR THE OLYMPICS
• THE FABULO LIFE OF AN OPENLY GAY COLLEGE SWIMMER

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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.

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. Racg briefs are also rigr for swimmers, water polo players and divers, and wily embraced by the gay muny. When the Olympics start this weekend R Janeiro, there will be a rerd 41 publicly out gay, lbian and bisexual athlet.

THERE ARE A RERD 11 OPENLY GAY MALE OLYMPIANS R. NONE IS AN AMERIN.

Includ this total are a rerd 11 gay male athlet. Diver Patrick Jefey was openly gay as a diver the 1996 Olympics.

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U.

When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Now the gay two-time NCAA champn for the Universy of Louisville, and current Olympic-hopeful swimmer, is talkg more publicly about beg a gay athlete bee, after all of the years, he’s simply ready to do so.

Nick is only out gay swimmer on the U. Though he says he’s been out to iends and fay for years, Nick publicly me out as gay Febary.

In a TV terview, he said he wants to show other young gay swimmers they’re not alone.

NICK ALBIERO, 28-TIME ALL-AMERIN SWIMMER, IS GAY OIYMPIC HOPEFUL

Sce g out, Nick says the reactn has been nothg but posive–showg that gay people belong the pool. Instead of wearg pla black Speedos, I chose to add a ltle flair and a lot of glter to my warm-up and ol-down an openly gay athlete at USC has been nothg short of fabulo.

Even though I’m playg the stereotypil gay iend and teammate, I love and accept that role. Although I am gay, my teammat as well as other athlet at SC don’t re. Most ach and athlet don’t re that I kiss at boys on Saturday nights, but are much more ncerned about how much I hang-clean (95kg), how fast I n a 300-yard shuttle and how many pots I sred my 200 dividual is a prenceived notn athletics that gay men aren’t as strong, fast or mascule as our straight unterparts or that we don’t want to work up a sweat and lift heavy weight bee we would ms up our hair.

THIS GAY SWIMMER JT WON ANOTHER MEDAL & HE’S GUNNG FOR THE OLYMPICS

Here at USC I know of a handful of gay athlet. Like many gay men here Los Angel, I love bnch.

I have also been able to ntue to grow as a gay man the Los Angel muny. I unrstand that I might e across as an entled homo who is lucky enough to live Los Angel, one of the most acceptg ci the U. But that didn’t happen by accint and by no means do I not regnize the stggl of other gay athlete elsewhere.

THE FABULO LIFE OF AN OPENLY GAY COLLEGE SWIMMER

I thk one of the thgs that ma my recg procs very easy was that I was out high school and was able to regnize that I wanted to have a gay life as well as an athletic life.

At the time, I was datg a hman llege athlete who had been through the recg procs and stggl that e along wh beg gay on a llege team, so I had him as a rource. It was important to be open to know how different teams would react to havg a gay teammate.