Tag: Gareth Thomas

Openly-gay Welsh Rugby legend, Gareth Thomas intends to help break HIV stigma after confirming that he is HIV positive. The 45-year old former rugby player shares his status for the first time publicly in an interview with Sunday Mirror, where he described the moment he found out. “I went for a routine sexual health test at

Former Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas has opened up about struggling to accept his own sexuality. Mr Thomas hit headlines in 2009 when he became the UK’s first openly gay rugby player. Thomas, who has more than 100 caps for his country, says he battled against being gay to the point he considered taking his own life. Speaking to the Attitude Heroes podcast he said: “Life was shit. It was really really bad. “But I didn’t want to not hear my mum and...