BOSTON (Reuters) - An assistant basketball coach at Bryant University came out as gay in a first-person essay published by Outsports.com late Wednesday, making him the first coach of a top-level U.S. college program to do so, according to U.S. media.
The coach, Chris Burns, said this summer's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states made him decide to make his sexual orientation public.
"I thought of the people who never got to see that day, who fought for equal rights but didn't get their time," he wrote. "They deserve to be validated and recognized for their efforts and for their struggles.