Pro handball player Villads Raahauge Jensen comes out as gay
Danish pro-athlete Villads Raahauge Jensen has come out as gay. Taking to his Instagram profile, the handball player shared the news in a heartfelt post – which featured a photo from his childhood and a recent snapshot of him on a handball court. “I am gay.
Three words that in reality should be easy to say, but which for many years I’ve been afraid to open about,” he wrote. “I’ve been thinking of posting a post like this for a long time and have been thinking if this was the right way to [come] out.
But there is probably no right or wrong way.” Jensen, who’s an attacking player for Lund, Sweden’s Lugi HF team, went on to discuss his initial reservations about coming out – revealing that he had “been terrified about how people, teammates, coaches and anyone around handball would react.” “Would they look at me any different?
Would they think I was wrong? Would I no longer be part of the team in the same way I was before?” he continued. “Being gay in sports is in many ways still taboo without me quite having the explanation as to why.
