powerful column was published by the Sydney Morning Herald, Palmer has received hundreds of emails and messages from around the world, including from many people who have encountered similar struggles with their sexuality.His own brutally open recount detailed the mental health issues and drug problems he experienced, including feelings that “my own death felt preferable to anybody discovering I was gay”.The 32-year-old, a prop who played one Test for the Wallabies in 2012 and domestically for the Waratahs and Brumbies between 2008 and 2015, joins Welshman Gareth Thomas as the only other male professional rugby player to have come out.In his column, Palmer wrote he had always felt comfortable in the rugby environment, categorising his.