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Australian rugby star Kane Evans comes out as gay · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: former Australian National Rugby League pro Kine Evans says he's
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  Speaker 2: finally free after coming out as gay. The thirty four
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  Speaker 2: year olds revealed the full extent of his struggles as
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  Speaker 2: he tried to get his head around his sexuality. Kaine's
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  Speaker 2: been telling Channel minds one hundred percent footy. He previously
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  Speaker 2: had three goals in life, and one of them was dark.
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  Speaker 3: To play an hour, to buy my parents are house,
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  Speaker 3: and then I was going to top myself because I
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  Speaker 3: was living in the Nahal from a young age. I
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  Speaker 3: know that you know that I'm gay, but I went
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  Speaker 3: down every other avenue to escape who I am.
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  Speaker 2: He also says he's been fighting a war within from
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  Speaker 2: about the age of fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: It's not sustainable and now I was slipping in parks,
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  Speaker 3: doing drikes, trying to ultimately pass away, so I didn't
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  Speaker 3: have to come to this.
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  Speaker 2: But despite the thought of coming out having been Caine's
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  Speaker 2: worst nightmare, now he feels different.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here today to show people that you know, you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to live like that. Even now I feel
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  Speaker 3: a bit more free just by saying it out loud,
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  Speaker 3: I've brought it to the light.
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  Speaker 2: Is the second Australian rugby league pro to publicly come out,
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  Speaker 2: after Ian Roberts back in nineteen ninety five. Tributes on
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  Speaker 2: Caine's socials include Legend, My Brother and the Best There
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  Speaker 2: there are ten transgender athletes in the entire state, Pride
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  Speaker 2: thousand LGBTQ plus tourists across nineteen countries. About half those
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