Earlier this week, a 16-year high school basketball coach from Yonkers, New York named Anthony Nicodemo, 35, made headlines after coming out the closet and revealing to his players that he is gay.
“I’m very upfront,” Nicodemo told ABC News. “So, for me, that was my demon. I’m supposed to be this guy [who is] always honest and yet I’m not 100 percent honest.”
He decided to be honest with himself — and his team.
“The one person you can’t con is yourself,” Nicodemo told his players in June. “I said, ‘Guys, the story is going to come out tomorrow about me being a gay high school basketball coach.”
Gay leaders in sports are rare, and even rarer at the high school level.
“At first the mouths dropped, but it didn’t take long,” Nicodemo said of his players’ reaction.
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