Couper Gunn, who is a defenseman and team captain on the Colby-Sawyer College men’s soccer team, the Chargers, was competing in a match against the Rivier University Raiders when the incident took place.
Right before halftime during the 22 September game, one of the opposing team’s players approached Gunn, who was wearing a rainbow-coloured armband. “Get that f****t armband off of you,” Gunn says he was told.
In the immediate aftermath of the verbal assault, Gunn went to the locker room during halftime and burst into tears. “I was upset I’d been called that, but I was more upset because I was thinking about all the queer kids who that kid comes into contact with every day,” the player told Outsports. “He perpetuates that, even if he didn’t