Tag: #GayAthlete
Is A Celebrated Footballer About To Come Out? • Instinct Magazine
Photo by Tevarak Phanduang on Unsplash
A championship footballer is “to come out as gay in the near future.”
With two LGBTQ-friendly football/soccer teams making it to the finals at the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the US team with out player Megan Rapinoe ultimately winning, there’s a lot of attention on LGBTQ players in the sport. And perhaps because of that, one other player may be gearing up to come out.
A Twitter account under the name of “The Gay Footballer”...
A Sprinter Became India’s First Openly Gay Athlete
Images via Instagram @duteechandA professional sprinter just became India’s first openly gay athlete.
Last year, the Indian Supreme Court made a historic decision to decriminalize gay sex. Since then, several LGBTQ people in the country have felt comfortable enough to come out. And now India’s first professional athlete has done so.
Dutee Chand is a 23-year-old sprinter who shares that she has been dating another woman from her village for five years.
“I...
