Being a sports fan is one of my favorite things in the world.

There is nothing greater than attending a sporting event and cheering along with thousands of other fans and having your team emerge victorious.

I went to BYU.

I had an easy time being a sports fan, but I had a difficult time being a sports fan at my college.

The Mormon faith is not accepting of gays and probably never will be.  So one can imagine that going to a college owned by the LDS church was very difficult for me.

I wanted to be myself, but I couldn't.  I could not be an openly gay man at that school, otherwise I could have been expelled, beat up, or worse.

Being gay is not easy anywhere, but there it is infinitely worse.

Now, I know for a fact that there are many gay people at BYU.  I got to know many of them during my time there. 

I even knew some of the athletes there that were gay.  (Of course, I won't mention their names out of respect.)

I'm sure many of you find it difficult to imagine a gay man who is a sports nut; you probably think of gay men as feminine and weak. 

This is not always the case.

I always wanted to be an athlete, but couldn't out of fear of what people would do if they found out my secret.

So I guess the point of this article is to let everyone know that being a sports fan has no boundaries. 

Acceptance is always the best route.