Coming Out Stories

Albiero has been on the US Swimming National Team. He is now talking more about being a gay athlete representing the USA.

Anderson Comas came out to the White Sox last year and has widespread support across the organization.

Jankto plays for the Czech national team and professionally in Spain in La Liga.

Howard Bragman helped people come out, live their truth, and was a dear friend and confidant for many.

Johnstone is the first former All Blacks player to come out, and his story has reached around the world.

House is the 3rd MLB player to come out publicly. He was invited to the White House for the signing of the Respect For Marriage Act.

‘Being my authentic self with my team and coaches helped me become the person I am today,’ Dustin Stueck writes.

Isaac Humphries also played 5 games for the Atlanta Hawks in 2019. He’s the latest pro athlete to come out as gay.

‘I want to shift the conversation away from being the one gay basketball kid,’ Joe Morrell writes. ‘I am not the only one, I am one of many.’

‘I am here to represent that we are out there, we are normal, and we can do whatever we want.’

Ryan Keesee loves soccer, but he thought it was not compatible with being gay. Now embracing who he is has led him to an amazing place.

‘I’m gay,’ Hamptons football player Byron Perkins said. ‘This is who I am, this is who I’ve been, and this is who I’m going to be.’

Closeted and scared, Kenzi Hayden quit running. Now out, she is reclaiming a sport she has long loved.

Coming out as a gay athlete is a personal choice. And everyone has different family and career experiences to navigate.

The women’s tennis circuit officially adds another power couple in the off-court duo from Argentina.

The 12-year Bundesliga veteran is the league’s first out gay player, and the first active male player in a pro team sport in Germany to come out.

Charlotte Jobe was nervous the first time she played hockey after coming out as trans, but it turned out her fears were baseless.

After Nathan Holty started coming out to teammates in high school and college, he saw his confidence soar and his performances improve.

Zander Murray says the great time he had going to a Pride event this year convinced him to come out as openly gay.

Now at Northern Arizona, Nico Young says he’s always known he is gay, but had struggled with it until now.