Friend of the FGG Brian Sims is profiled in the Daily Local:"For me, this isn't about getting even," says Sims, 31, a Philadelphia lawyer and a former star football player at Downingtown High School and Bloomsburg University. "It isn't about getting back at anybody. It's not about capturing something that was stolen from me. I come at it because it's the right thing to do, it's going to happen, I'm on the right side of history, and there's momentum."
Sims is talking about the movement he's suddenly found himself square in the middle of: the crusade for gay equality and in particular the rights of gay athletes.
How he got there, almost a decade after putting on football pads for the last time, no longer matters. All that does is that he can offer guidance to a generation of student-athletes while inspiring men and women from another age by telling them a few simple facts about his own life:
He's gay.
When he played football in college, his teammates knew he was gay and didn't so much as raise an eyebrow.
He was as strong as three bulls, leading Bloomsburg to the Division II national championship game a few years after helping Downingtown win a state championship.
He has another fight left in him.
To read the entire profile in the Daily Local, click HERE.
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