NCAA champion swimmer Abrahm Devine accuses his former team at Stanford of homophobia and says he was kicked off the team because he's gay.
“There’s a culture that is created in a lot of sports where being gay is an insult,” he said at the time. “It’s something that gets tossed around and makes you not want to go to practice or not want to hang out with the team or be a part of the team.”
In his Monday Instagram post, DeVine appeared to take aim at some of the more subtle ways homophobia exists in college athletics. He wrote that his experience is not uncommon among gay college athletes, and that he wants to “encourage everyone to be thoughtful about changing some of the homophobic aspects of the athletic culture that exists today.”
“While I have many specific examples of micro aggressions and outright aggressions that I’ve experienced, homophobia is ultimately much more than an accumulation of experiences. In fact, it is a denial of experience,” he wrote. “I am a talented, successful, educated, proud, gay man: I am a threat to the culture that holds sports teams together.”
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