French Athletes Discuss Being Gay
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06-22-2021, 05:27 PM
Six French athletes talk about being gay, share experiences
PARIS (AP) ”” Six French athletes have spoken about being gay and shared difficult experiences they had during their formative years.
A documentary by Canal Plus called “Faut qu’on parle” (We have to talk) interviewed three women and three men.
Basketball player Celine Dumerc, fencer Astrid Guyart, and judoka Amandine Buchard remembered fears they had about their sexuality when growing up. The sentiments were shared by men’s skating champion Kevin Aymoz, rugby player Jeremy Clamy-Edroux, and former Olympic swimming champion Jeremy Stravius.
The documentary aired on Saturday, during Pride Month, and two days before Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.
The 38-year-old Dumerc, who starred for France when it finished 2012 Olympic basketball runner-up, explained how she felt in her early years.
“You’re not sure what’s happening, you become attracted to someone who’s the same sex as you,” she said. “Then you start getting on really well and things start going a bit further. There are intimate moments.”
But Dumerc was distressed by some people’s perceptions.
“You hear all sorts of things like, ”˜It’s an illness, it’s in the genes,’” Dumerc recalled. “You hear 20,000 absurd things.”
Guyart is the same age as Dumerc: “I was 18 or 19 and fell in love with a woman who was older,” she said.
One relationship was painful because her partner did not want to say she was gay.  “I wasn’t ashamed, but the person I was with was,”  Guyart said. “That’s not a great way to build your identity and to envisage a loving
relationship. It was destructive, in that sense.”
https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-rai...785a8b9dd1
PARIS (AP) ”” Six French athletes have spoken about being gay and shared difficult experiences they had during their formative years.
A documentary by Canal Plus called “Faut qu’on parle” (We have to talk) interviewed three women and three men.
Basketball player Celine Dumerc, fencer Astrid Guyart, and judoka Amandine Buchard remembered fears they had about their sexuality when growing up. The sentiments were shared by men’s skating champion Kevin Aymoz, rugby player Jeremy Clamy-Edroux, and former Olympic swimming champion Jeremy Stravius.
The documentary aired on Saturday, during Pride Month, and two days before Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.
The 38-year-old Dumerc, who starred for France when it finished 2012 Olympic basketball runner-up, explained how she felt in her early years.
“You’re not sure what’s happening, you become attracted to someone who’s the same sex as you,” she said. “Then you start getting on really well and things start going a bit further. There are intimate moments.”
But Dumerc was distressed by some people’s perceptions.
“You hear all sorts of things like, ”˜It’s an illness, it’s in the genes,’” Dumerc recalled. “You hear 20,000 absurd things.”
Guyart is the same age as Dumerc: “I was 18 or 19 and fell in love with a woman who was older,” she said.
One relationship was painful because her partner did not want to say she was gay.  “I wasn’t ashamed, but the person I was with was,”  Guyart said. “That’s not a great way to build your identity and to envisage a loving
relationship. It was destructive, in that sense.”
https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-rai...785a8b9dd1
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