How We Leveled The Playing Field: Ten Athletes Whose Courage To Come Out Scored Big For The Cause

From: Queerty

Gareth Thomas

2009

Thomas’s decision to come out publicly while still an active rugby player was seen as a brave move by LGBT rights advocates. Though others have since followed suit, Thomas hoped everyone would eventually consider his sexuality as unimportant. “What I choose to do when I close the door at home has nothing to do with what I have achieved in rugby,” he told The Guardian. “I’d love for it, in 10 years’ time, not to even be an issue in sport, and for people to say: ‘So what?'” We’d love it, too.