Olympic swimmer Sean Gunn opens up about coming out as gay: ‘I was really lucky’

Sean Gunn (Image: Instagram/@seangunnnn)

The Zimbabwean athlete, Sean Gunn, has shared his story publicly about coming out as gay, saying that he struggled to tell his family for some time.

The Olympic swimmer, 30, has shared that he came out as gay first to his teammates at the University of Kentucky in the United States. In 2012, then 18, he moved to study and swim there before competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics by which point he was also swimming for Kentucky.

He told Outsports recently that he realised he was gay at Kentucky after dating girls initially. “My team, and everyone who did know, was very supportive and happy for me,” Gunn said. “I honestly don’t think anything really changed at all. If anything, friendships just became better.”

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