In an terview after g out as gay, man who was BYU’s dancg Cosmo the Cougar talks about ‘shame and isolatn’

Contents:

• GORDON MONSON: A FORMER BYU ATHLETE WHO IS GAY FDS PEACE, AT LAST
• BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY
• IN AN TERVIEW AFTER G OUT AS GAY, MAN WHO WAS BYU’S DANCG COSMO THE COUGAR TALKS ABOUT ‘SHAME AND ISOLATN’
• A FAN SHOWSED THIS ANTI-GAY SIGN AT A BYU FOOTBALL GAME AND ESPN BROADST
• FORMER UTAH UTE MATT GAY SENDS RAMS TO NFC CHAMPNSHIP GAME WH WALK-OFF FIELD GOAL
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• BYU’S DANCG GAY UGAR TOPS ESPN’S ‘BT MAST MOMENTS OF ALL TIME’
• CHARLIE BIRD ON HIS NEW BOOK AND BEG BYU’S COSMO AND A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT

GORDON MONSON: A FORMER BYU ATHLETE WHO IS GAY FDS PEACE, AT LAST

A cel reject, tossed down on this terrtrial globe by God as some sort of msed-up, twisted Warnick was gay. 7, lettg everyone his world know what he has known for the better part of two s now, that he is a gay man and that he is a good man and that he has never felt so much peace his his story n help others stgglg to feel that same peace and also those stgglg to afford those others the love and rpect they need and serve, and maybe, too, enlighten those who through the doctre and dogma they teach and preach om posns of thory to avoid nmng those others, stop stirrg them the self-hate no human should feel.

BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY

”Warnick noticed his attractn to his same genr early on, but hid bee he heard what was said at church about such attractn and he heard the guys on the field, urt, diamond and the locker room talk disparaggly and e gay slurs.

IN AN TERVIEW AFTER G OUT AS GAY, MAN WHO WAS BYU’S DANCG COSMO THE COUGAR TALKS ABOUT ‘SHAME AND ISOLATN’

He knew he was gay, but knew of nobody else at his school or his iend group who were: “There was no one I uld relate to, even when I was tght to hate myself …”He stops to tell the story of how he, wracked wh guilt for his impure thoughts, took the pictur of Palmer out to his backyard and burned them bee … well, you know … starts aga. I’d watch [LDS] General Conference and jt wa for homosexualy beg tght as a s. And worked, mostly, until, wh no other outlet for his emotns, he was ught by his parents nsumg gay porn durg his junr year of high did not go over well.

A FAN SHOWSED THIS ANTI-GAY SIGN AT A BYU FOOTBALL GAME AND ESPN BROADST

”He was well aware that as thgs were he uldn’t hi forever, but he hoped that chang would e, that if he lived right, he uld beat his gayns, “hopg to be blsed to be attracted to women, to get ‘fixed. I didn’t want to be gay.

Thereafter, while studyg at and petg for BYU, he quietly started datg dividual, a closeted married man who worked at BYU, heard whispers about Warnick, and rmed him that he was faiar wh a group of gay athlet at the school.

“When you’re gay, there is no plan, ” Warnick says.

FORMER UTAH UTE MATT GAY SENDS RAMS TO NFC CHAMPNSHIP GAME WH WALK-OFF FIELD GOAL

”A few of his close iends Provo knew about his sexualy by then, and none of them eaked out or seemed homophobic.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

While he kept his secrets, he was aware enough to disver there are, as he says , “a lot of gay kids at Southern Virgia, ” jt the way that “there are gay stunts at BYU.

BYU’S DANCG GAY UGAR TOPS ESPN’S ‘BT MAST MOMENTS OF ALL TIME’

”Warnick knows of at least one gay kid at BYU who died by suici, and he n certaly relate to the reasons why that happens.

CHARLIE BIRD ON HIS NEW BOOK AND BEG BYU’S COSMO AND A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT

Warnick para-quot a top universy admistrator as havg said, “Some people will say we’re not as Christian here bee we accept gay people.