Pride Month: Reasons to be proud of the progress made in sport

When I was younger, I didn’t think I belonged in sport.

Not that you’d have known it from the outside.

I played hockey in the winter, tennis in the summer and could rattle off members of the Tottenham Hotspur squad like they were part of my own family.

But like many in the LGBTQ+ community, I felt I faced a choice between loving sport and being my true self.

It was partly to recognise

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