Danish handball player Villads Raahauge Jensen comes out as gay

Handball star Villads Raahauge Jensen has come out as gay.

The Danish athlete, 28, made the announcement in an Instagram post on Monday (13 January), saying that saying he was gay “should be easy to say, but for many years I’ve been afraid to be open about”.

He went on to write: “I’ve been thinking of posting a post like this for a long time, and have been thinking if this was the right way to come out. But there is probably no right or wrong way.”

Handball is his priority in his life, he added, and this was, in part, was one of the largest barriers to coming out because he feared it could change “the whole narrative of who I [am] as a person”.

Jensen’s post continued: “I’ve

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