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Tadd Fujikawa becomes first male professional golfer to come out as gay
Tadd Fujikawa has become the first male professional golfer to publicly come out as gay.
The 27-year-old Hawaiian, who now plays on the PGA Tour Canada, took to social media to explain his decision in a heartfelt post.
"I've been back and forth for a while about opening up about my sexuality," Fujikawa said on Instagram.
"I thought that I didn't ask for to come out because it doesn't matter if anyone knows. But I remember how much others' stories possess helped me in my darkest times to have hope.
"I spent way too long pretending, hiding, and hating who I was. I was always scared of what others would think/say.
"I've struggled with my mental health for many years because of that and it put me in a really horrible place.
"Now I'm standing up for myself and the lie down of the LGBTQ community in hopes of being an inspiration and making a difference in someone's life.
"Although it's a lot more accepted in our society today, we still see children, teens, and adults being ridiculed and discriminated against for being the way we are.
"Some own even taken their lives because of it. As extended as those things are still ha
Is the First Gay Golfer on the Men's Tours About to Come Out?
When the CEO of Apple came out last week to announce that he was gay, it was big news for the day. Stepping out to declare your sexuality isn’t a big deal anymore. It’s the main talking gesture for a day and then people go about their business. It's only a matter of hour before gay golfers approach out on the major tours.
In sports, as in the business world, it’s the same way. Basketball, football, tennis, swimming, baseball, track, soccer, and Nascar all hold one or more openly gay members participating in their sport.
The LPGA Tour does nothing to conceal that they have lgbtq+ golfers playing right next to straight players.
Rosie Jones came right out and said she was male lover and she was the captain of the 2011 Solheim Cup.
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WHAT ABOUT THE MEN'S TOURS
All this makes me wonder if there aren’t any gay golfers playing on the male professional tours. I am talking about the PGA Tour, Champions T Japanese-American golfer Tadd Fujikawa has show up out as gay in a post on his Instagram account. Hawaii-born Fujikawa, 27, made the announcement on World Suicide Prevention Day. "So, I'm gay. Many of you may already own known. I don't predict everyone to understand or accept me," he said. "My hope is this post will inspire each and every one of you to be more empathetic and loving towards one another." He added: "I've been back and forth for a while about opening up about my sexuality. "I thought that I didn't need to appear out because it doesn't matter if anyone knows. But I remember how much others' stories own helped me in my darkest times to own hope." In 2006, Fujikawa - now the planet number 2,042 - became the youngest player to qualify for the US Open, aged 15. At the following year's Sony Reveal in Hawaii, he became the youngest player in 50 years to create the cut at a PGA Tour event, eventually finishing tied for 20th. In 2017 he won the Hawaii State Uncover and two months later, on World Mental Health Day, he posted on Instagram: "No When Rory McIlroy’s roller-coaster weekend began sputtering to a halt on Sunday afternoon, I found myself in need of a rooting interest for the last stretch of the 2022 PGA Championship. Mito Pereira was hanging tough at the top of the leaderboard, but I didn’t feel comfortable pulling for someone who’d arrived at this moment a several years ahead of schedule. The same was real for Cameron Young, a star on the ascend who might be ready to take his next Sunday back nine by the throat. Matt Fitzpatrick was holding his morning together with hot glue and safety pins. I couldn’t watch another short-range putt from Will Zalatoris without peeking through my fingers like I might at a horror movie. I found myself drawn to the guy lurking further down the board with championship pedigree, the one who survived the unfeeling late-early wave draw earlier in the week by carving shots around Southern Hills like a sculptor. That meant cheering for Justin Thomas, the eventual champion and the one guy in the field with whom I own a complicated history. I’m a gay man, and hearing JT mutter “faggot” on a hot mic at Kapalua last year lingers in the endorse of Todd Montoya has been a golf caddie for nearly two decades, initially on the mini-tours and more recently on the PGA Tour, although he has – until recently – hidden a confidential from most of the golfing society. The New Mexico native, who has looped for a host of players before taking over Brian Stuard's bag in 2016, opened up about his sexuality in a sit-down interview with Golf Channel and revealed why he had decided to previously limit who knew about him being gay. "I believe that it was mostly because that was my preconceived notion about the society of people that probably encompass the golf community," Montoya admitted to Golf Channel. "I just felt enjoy I would hold a better opportunity to get and keep a profession if I kept it hidden. "Something that you kept classified for so many years, amongst people you consider your friends and your co-workers, over the course of period, you grow block to them. Until people that I care about realize that I'm male lover, they really don't know me for my entirety." Montoya admitted his sexuality to Doug LaBelle in 2006, after acting as his bag man as hTadd Fujikawa: Japanese-American golfer comes out as gay
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