Get to know Trey Cunningham, the American track star who just came out
A post shared by Trey Cunningham (@treycunningham)Trey Cunningham is no longer jumping over the truth. The champion American track star publicly came out as gay Monday, making him one of the highest profile out male athletes in the U.S.
The 11th-ranked high hurdler in the world, Cunningham shared his story with the New York Times.“We say our goals out loud,” he told journalist Rory Smith. “If there’s something we want to achieve, we say it.
Putting something in words makes it real.”Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Born in Winfield, Ala., Cunningham describes his hometown as “rural, quite conservative, quite religious: the sort of place where you did not want to be the gay kid at school.” Bereft of out role models, Cunningham didn’t think about his orientation as a high school student.
Like many LGBTQ+ folx, his first moments of self-discovery arrived in college. Attending school at Florida State, Cunningham says it took him a couple of years to figure out his identity.
