Texas A&M University swimmer Amini Fonua, a 2012 Summer Olympic swimmer for Tonga, and a New Zealand native, has come out as the first openly gay athlete at his historic Texas school.
Fonua cited the values of the college he attends as his reason behind coming out at the notoriously conservative school.?
"An Aggie does not lie, cheat or steal," Fonua told The Battalion, A&M's student newspaper. "And if you're living in the closet, you're living a lie."
Fonua is a telecommunications and media studies major at the college.
Last summer, A&M was named by the Princeton Review as one of three Texas colleges that were "LGBT-unfriendly", along with Baylor, and the University of Dallas, an Irving Catholic institution. Fonua told The Battalion that he hopes his announcement will usher in change at A&M, and also spotlight homophobia at other college campuses. He added that his positive experiences at A&M in relation to his orientation have far outweighed the bad.
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