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  • Rugby player announces his engagement to his long-time boyfriend

    Sam Stanley has announced his engagement to his long-term partner, Laurence Hicks.

    The former rugby champ, who came out in 2015, has announced that he is now engaged to his long-term partner Laurence. The pair has been in “each other’s lives” for nearly seven years.

    On a social media post Sam wrote,

    “After being a part of each others [sic] lives for almost 7 years, Laurence has been my pretend godfather, uncle, cousin and many others in order to make sure no one found out about us and that we were a couple.

     

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  • 9 Celebrities Who Came Out As Gay In 2015

    In our quick round up of 2015, there were quite a few celebrities who came out of closet, here are nine guys who came out as gay.

    Reid Ewing, Modern Family actorCame out very subtly via Tweet – saying that he found Eugene Bata “hot as f***”

    Michael Angelakos, lead singer for Passion Pit

    Came out on a podcast by writer Bret Easton Ellis.

    Gus Kenworthy, OlympianJust one day out and he already owned ** that who’s the man question ***

    Keegan Hirst, Pro rugby player

    Tamal Ray, British Bake Off Star

    In an interview with Radio Times, Tamal confirmed that he was single and looking for a man.

    Sam Stanley, Pro Rugby Player

    The first professional rugby player to come out

    Tooji, Eurovision Iranian-born Norwegian singer

    Came out rather spectacularly in one of the most erotic music videos we’ve seen in a long time.

    Gorgeous Youtuber Georgie came out in a brave video on YouTube

    Joel Gray, Legendary actor

    Hollywood & Broadway Star actor JOEL GREY finally come out publicly as gay.

  • Sport Stars Who Came Out Of The Closet

    Despite there being thousands if not hundreds of thousands of men and women in professional sports, very few have come out as lesbian, gay, bi or transgender.

    We take a look at the brave few who have come out as LGBT over the last couple of years.

    Tom Daley

    Probably one of the most famous coming out stories of recently years. Daley decided to come out as bisexual through a video on YouTube. He later came out as gay on national TV on a Keith Lemon show.

    Gus Kenworthy

    Olympian medalist Gus came out in 2015 in an interview with EPSN.

    Liam Davis

    A high profile footballer, Liam Davis came out as gay in a newspaper interview in 2014. He said,

    ‘I personally hope that over the next 10 years I’m not the only gay footballer out there. Nobody wants to be forced out, but I hope they can look and see there is someone out there who has done it.

    Ian Thorpe

    Swimming champion Ian Thorpe came out as gay in 2014. The gold medal Olympian said, “I’m not straight. And this is only something that very recently – in the past two weeks – I’ve been comfortable telling the closest people around me exactly that.”

    John Fennell

    A then 19-year-old, Canadian Luger John Fennell came out during an interview in which he called hiding his sexuality a ‘suffocating’

    Ian Matos

    A Brazillian diver came out shortly after Tom Daley revealed his sexuality. He came out despite being told to stay in the closet until after the 2016 Rio Olympics.

    Thomas Hitzlsperger

    German born Thomas came out as gay in January 2014. He was a football player for Aston Villa and West Ham.

    Caitlyn Jenner

    Caitlyn Jenner made headlines this year after revealing that she is a woman. She was an Olympian champion known as Bruce Jenner. She is the highest profile professional athlete to ever come out as transgender.

    Sam Stanley

    Sam became the first professional English pro rugby player to come out in 2015.

    Keegan Hirst

    27-year-old Keegan Hirst came out in an interview with the Sunday Mirror.

    David Benson

    David a baseball player in the United States became the first pro baseball player to come out as gay. He did so on the same day that Keegan Hirst came out.

  • First English Pro Rugby Player Has Come Out As Gay

    Pro rugby player Sam Stanley has come out as gay.

    Sam Stanley, 23, has become the first English pro rugby union player to come out as gay. His announcement follows Keegan Hirst’s coming out, which happened just a few weeks ago.

    Speaking to the Sunday Times, Stanley said,

    “I was 10 or 11 when I realised I was different to my friends.

    “I didn’t want to accept it, I felt that being different wasn’t right. I had a girlfriend and I was thinking that, like some people say, maybe it is a phase.”

    Stanley went on to say: “Millions of people are in the situation, even people who have been in [his partner] Laurence’s situation and they are still married but are gay. They cannot accept it themselves.

    “It is going to be an issue until more people and athletes come out, until it is not an issue at all. It might take years but hopefully lots of people will find the courage.”