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Keegan Hirst
Hirst made headlines in August when he came out as the first openly gay British rugby player. The team captain and father of two admitted that the biggest roadblock to the acceptance of his sexuality was a deeply-embedded cultural denial: “Society dictates that when you’re a 16-year-old lad you have a girlfriend, you sleep with her and that’s how it is. Especially as a rugby player and a lad who grew up on a council estate… I convinced myself, no way could I be gay, it was inconceivable.”
But now that he’s embraced his true self, Hirst feels as though he’s “letting out a long breath that [he’s] held in for a long time.
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