Openly gay volleyball players

The openly gay year-old is a recent graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was an integral part of their back-to-back NCAA championship wins during the 20season. “I really want to be a part of the team that wins the 20th national championship at UCLA,” McHenry said ahead of the title campaign. Este artigo também está disponível em: Português Español. A fight that started between two male volleyball players ended in the best possible way — with a gay kiss. The clash took place between Yu Yamamoto , 24, and Takuya Takamatsu , 29, in a game played by the Japanese Volleyball League.

The UCLA Bruins men’s volleyball team just won their 20th title in school history, and out gay middle blocker Merrick McHenry was one of the biggest reasons why. The dynamic redshirt junior led. Italian volleyball sensation and World Championship silver medalist Paola Egonu comes out and reveals that she is currently in a relationship. Read more. Canadian volleyball player, Chris Voth, has been dropped by his new club team because they found out of his sexual orientation.

At least 29 openly LGBTQ+ athletes are on Team USA’s Olympic roster this year, with most either playing basketball or rowing. A record-setting out LGBTQ+ athletes participated in the Tokyo Summer Olympics in , and this year there’s at least competing. There’s also a number of firsts when it comes to LGBTQ representation this year: Kayla Miracle is the first out LGBTQ Olympic. Currently, one of the best Brazilian male volleyball players, Douglas Souza, had the courage to announce his homosexual orientation a few years ago. Now, he expressed one desire in relation to this…. The Olympic champion, the Brazilian Superliga winner, and the Best Outside Hitter of the FIVB World Championship, Douglas Souza, participated in a live interview on the social media of his club EMS Taubaté Funvic, answering questions from fans.

List of LGBTQ Summer Olympians (–present)There are 85 [a] modern Summer Olympic athletes, who made their Olympic debut in and have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, queer, or have openly been in a same-sex relationship. [a] According to Outsports, there were at least out athletes (including those who debuted earlier) at the Summer. His Brazil team came fourth in Tokyo. He is currently the most followed volleyballer on Instagram, and came out publicly as gay in I think I have always known that I was gay.