{"id":51035,"date":"2017-03-09T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/out-high-school-wrestler-learned-how-to-turn-homophobia-into-motivation-and-its-pretty-awesome\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:26:49","slug":"out-high-school-wrestler-learned-how-to-turn-homophobia-into-motivation-and-its-pretty-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/out-high-school-wrestler-learned-how-to-turn-homophobia-into-motivation-and-its-pretty-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Out high school wrestler learned how to turn homophobia into motivation, and it\u2019s pretty awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Out high school wrestler learned how to turn homophobia into motivation, and it\u2019s pretty awesome<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2017\/03\/high_school_wrestler.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2017\/03\/high_school_wrestler.png 594w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2017\/03\/high_school_wrestler-400x283.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\"><\/p>\n<p>Who doesn\u2019t love a good sports metaphor?\n<\/p>\n<p>This one comes from an unlikely place \u2014 a high school wrestling mat \u2014 and it\u2019s as inspiring as it is remarkable.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Jesse Loera came out to his friends and family when he was in the eighth grade, and that made life on his wrestling team a constant challenge.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/high-school-jock-comes-out-by-slow-dancing-with-the-homecoming-king-20141217\">High School Jock Comes Out By Slow Dancing With The Homecoming King<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of my teammates in high school would \u2018joke\u2019 around about me being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>,\u201d he writes in a first-person post on\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsports.com\/2017\/3\/9\/14866722\/gay-wrestler-high-school-jesse-loera\" target=\"_blank\">Outsports<\/a>.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAt first I told myself \u2018they\u2019re just playing, it\u2019s all good, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a> will be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a>.\u2019 They would tell me that as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t stop. They kept at it. I did tell some of them to knock it off, but they never did. It hurt. I dreaded going to practice. I hated going into the room and having to experience that same torment every day. I hated it.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s enough to drive any reasonable person away from a sport, and while Jesse did consider walking away from wrestling, his parents encouraged him to stick with it.\n<\/p>\n<p>His family moved ahead of his junior year, and a new school meant a whole new coming out process. Luckily the wrestling coach at his\u00a0new school, a \u201cbig, muscular <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a>\u201d who at first intimidated Jesse, convinced him to come to a few practices.\n<\/p>\n<p>There he met a new group of peers who didn\u2019t seem to care one way or the other about him being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/twins-aaron-austin-rhodes-reveal-how-they-came-out-to-each-other-in-high-school-20160427\">Twins Aaron &#038; Austin Rhodes Reveal How They Came Out To Each Other In High School<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked one of them what he thought when he first found out I was <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>,\u201d Jesse remembers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019It didn\u2019t make no difference to me,\u2019 he said. \u2018I didn\u2019t look at you any differently after you told us.\u2019 I was speechless.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone was so immediately understanding, and that\u2019s where the real kicker comes in.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat really made me feel accepted was when we were at a dual meet, and the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guy<\/a> I was going to wrestle said something about me being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>. 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