Gay athletes

There have been many publicly out gay and bi college football players, including at least a dozen in NCAA Division I alone.

NBA player Jason Collins came out as gay in an interview with Sports Illustrated magazine in He is the first active athlete to come out as gay in any of the major American sports.

Scroll through to learn more about the athletes who have come out as LGBTQ + in (so far)!.

There are 85 [a] modern Summer Olympic athletes, who made their Olympic debut in and have identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, queer, or have openly been in a same-sex relationship.