Parents Of Gay Teen Athlete Won't Allow Him To Come Out

A young gay high school wrestler, "Hunter," recently shared his struggle with coming out on the website Outsports.

Apparently his parents didn't approve of his coming out and were forcing him into harmful reparative or "ex-gay" therapy. They also forbade him from coming out to anyone else.

But once his story hit Outsports, it was shared across several sites on the web and Hunter grew afraid his parents would see it. And so, out of fear, he asked Outsports to remove the coming out story.

We're sorry to say that we've decided to remove this story from the site.

Hunter contacted us this morning with fear that his parents might see it. The story got shared and read far more widely - and with more mainstream media - than we had imagined it could be. When mainstream sites started picking it up, Hunter got concerned and this morning asked us to remove the full story, at least temporarily, from Outsports. Just as the publication of the story is something we don't usually do, its removal is the same.

As I understand it, Hunter's parents have banned him from social media. But he did set up a secret email address should other young, LGBT athletes want to reach out to him. He can be reached by emailing here.

You can listen to Cyd Zeigler on Outsports Radio talk on the sad situation. The radio show aired before Hunter asked that the story be removed for now.