Byron Perkins, the first out gay football player in HBCU history, lands starring role in new sports doc
revealed his boyfriend to the world. And now, Perkins is the subject of a new CBS Sports documentary, “Beyond the Limits.” In it, the redshirt senior chronicles his journey post-coming out and the joy he’s experienced living as his authentic self.
The Hampton University defensive back says he’s never felt more free.“I don’t deserve to suffer anymore,” he said. “I don’t deserve to chain myself to the ideas of society, and consider myself invaluable, because someone else said so.
No.”"If we are going to free ourselves from ignorance, then we need to free ourselves from all types of ignorance — and it starts with allowing people to be themselves.""Beyond Limits" highlights @_HamptonU's Byron Perkins, the first openly gay HBCU football player, Sunday on CBS.
pic.twitter.com/OTePzF8BiRThose words reflect Perkins’ message when he publicly came out as gay last fall. He was in a dark place, and as he phrased it on Instagram, needed to “destroy his mask.”“I have been told on many occasions that I walk around a look as if I’m upset,” he wrote on his coming-out story. “This is not because I am an angry person, but because I have put on a mask, a mask that has restricted me.
