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Sweden’s Only Out Soccer Player Anton Hysén Now Quoting Lady Gaga Lyrics

I’m sure of who I am. I was born this way. I have nothing to hide … [E]veryone’s been really positive. … I just got a mail from someone who lives around here, who said ‘I’m never going to come to your games again, because you’ve got a faggot in your team’. So what am I supposed to do? I’m supposed to cry in a corner for you?

—Anton Hysén, the 20-year-old British-born soccer player for Sweden’s Utsiktens BK who says it’s “so fucked up” his the country’s only out player [via]

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