Dillon Bacchetta joined a New Jersey soccer team despite fear of rejection from mostly straight teammates. He found friendship and belonging as he could be himself, not perfect. ❤️🌈 #DillonBacchetta #GayAthletes #Soccer

Two UCLA titles. Team USA silver. Now Italy. 🏐🇮🇹

Openly gay volleyball star Merrick McHenry has arrived at Piacenza—and his cat Maverick is coming, too. 🐈❤️

Could LA28 be another chapter? An Olympic place remains to be earned. 🌈

#MerrickMcHenry #GayAthletes

Gus Kenworthy retired. Then returned for a fourth Olympics.

Now he’s heading back to Team USA—and his case helped prompt a FIS rule change. 🎿🌈

Newly engaged to Andrew Rigby and just turned 35, Gus may still have another Olympics ahead. ❤️

#GusKenworthy #GayAthletes

Openly gay Stanford gymnast Cooper Kim has won high-bar gold in his first World Challenge Cup appearance for Team USA.

He scored 14.533 in Paris, beating a 2024 Olympian — another huge step toward LA 2028. 🤸‍♂️🌈

#CooperKim #GayAthletes

He beat him in the final, then thanked him on the mic for inspiring his own coming out a year earlier.

#LGBTQSports #GayAthletes #Tennis #ComingOut

Mika Brunold beat João Lucas Reis da Silva in the Tulln final—then thanked him for inspiring him to come out. 🎾🌈

“You are a big inspiration for me. I’m really proud of us.”

Via Outsports
#GayAthletes #Tennis