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No More Running Away
'I Wasn't Going to Let
Some Ignorant Man Mess With My Dreams and Tell Me That I Am Not Worth
It
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By
Billy Glover
For Outsports.com
 I was 17
when I came out.
It was in Alaska in 1996, in the middle of winter, and my mother
didn't want me to go off to college. At the time I was also injured
and couldn't train. When you’re an athlete and you can't train, it
makes you so irritable. So dealing with being a closet case, being
injured, not training, the darkness in Alaska in the winter, putting
up with my mom not wanting me to go off to college … I finally just
broke.
I remember standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, staring at
myself, thinking, “What the hell is wrong with you and why are you
crying?” My mother was wondering the same thing. I kept telling her it
was nothing and she wouldn't understand, but she was so persistent.
"What’s wrong?” she demanded. “Obviously, something’s wrong!"
Finally, it just came out of my mouth. “Fine, I am gay!” I even
shocked myself. I knew I liked guys and knew I was different, but I
never thought of myself as being gay. Weird, I know.
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