28-year-old two-time Olympic gymnast Danell Leyva celebrated National Coming Out Month by coming out of the closet himself; an admission, he says, was not easy to make.
“I always knew,” he admitted to Olympic Channel. “It was always just very rejected, internally rejected because of the way that we’re all raised. And especially coming from a Hispanic family, it’s very much rejected. As I was growing up, I would always somewhat reject it. But then, the more I accepted myself… I started realizing more and more things. I started realizing how normal it is.”
Leyva took to Twitter this month to make the announcement. Then he hit a snag: he didn’t know how to label himself.(Keep Reading)
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