Former Kentucky men’s basketball player Isaac Humphries has come out as gay, he wrote in a guest column for CNN on Tuesday.
“Over my entire career, there was no reality that existed where I could be an openly gay man while playing basketball,” he wrote. “Until now.”
Humphries grew up in Australia, where, he explained, it was difficult for him to come out. He went to an all-male private high school and wrote that he wasn’t able to be part of an LGBTQ+ community.
Humphries played college basketball in the United States, spending two seasons with Kentucky, from 2015 to ’17.