2/3/2024 0 Comments Ivan martinez at gay pride nycI became world champion, broke a number of world records and won the Belgian championship several times. What really helped me to take the decision to come out, was the fact that I had already achieved a lot in sports. Pretty easy for me in a way, but also quite frightening to await their reactions. I had already informed my closest family a few days before social media and gossip reached the rest of the family, friends, schoolmates, the army and my sport shortly afterwards. I admitted I was gay in a magazine interview, so I had to tell my story just once. After thinking about how we would handle it and what consequences this could have, positive and negative, I eventually took the step. If it wasn’t for the support of my partner, I certainly wouldn’t have outed myself during my sports career. I was 18 years old when I decided to come out as gay to the world and obviously, that was not easy. This first-person story by Belgian archer Ivan Denis originally appeared on the Out For The Win Web site.
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