One of the workshops I attended was about LGBTQ+ individuals in sports. I had the incredible opportunity to meet other LGBTQ+ high school students, teachers, collegiate student-athletes, coaches, advocates, and allies. Going to PrideWorks with you and other students through the GSA, hosted at Pace University was another milestone in my life. You were the first adult who I could look to as an out member of the LGBTQ+ community.” Seeing you thriving as the video teacher at the high school, surrounded by students who loved you, gave me tremendous hope that there was a place for me to be myself, and still be loved. My journey of being openly gay had just begun during my junior and senior years of high school. It was the first place within Mamaroneck High School where I felt that I could be my authentic self. It is difficult to put into words the pivotal role the safe space you provided in your classroom for GSA meetings at lunchtime during high school was for me. Getting to sit at my computer right now, and writing this public letter to you, is surreal.
Today, gay tennis player Nick Lee writes to his one of high school teachers, Emily Dombroff. The only criteria is that the role model identifies as LGBTQ. In honor of Pride Month, Outsports is asking LGBTQ people in sports to write a letter to a role model.
