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Joining the world's first gay rugby team changed my life. So I made a film about it

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When I read Dan Palmer’s brave and honest coming out column in the Sydney Morning Herald last week, suddenly I was jolted back to a dark place seven years ago when I almost took my own life.

The former Wallabies prop described a moment when he was driving recklessly, the feeling of “death felt preferable to anybody discovering [he] was gay.”For me, I was working as a television reporter in Townsville in 2013 and driving to an interview.

Suddenly I felt this heavy urge to have an accident. With all my strength I pulled over and called my best friend who told me to go to the doctor.

I did immediately. He prescribed me antidepressants which helped fight off the black dog that had been chasing me since high school.

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