Olympic rower Robbie Manson comes out as gay
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Olympic rower Robbie Manson comes out as gay
By Robbie Manson on Nov 4 2014
Two and a half years ago I made the scariest decision of my life: to come out.
I feel like there has always been a confident, outgoing side of me dying to come out. But from an early age I realized that I was different from most other guys. I desperately tried to hide that "different" side of myself. In doing so I inadvertently became very quiet and shy, shutting myself off and avoiding attention for fear that someone might discover my deepest, darkest secret: I'm gay.
When I was younger I might have gotten the odd "you're gay" or "are you gay?" comment, which to a degree made me shut myself off even more. But they were few and far between. I was far from flamboyant so found it quite easy to hide who I really was. Don't get me wrong, at home I was happy, confident, bossy...and very competitive.
But at school I was the complete opposite, even getting hassled a bit for being too quiet and not talking very much....
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