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UMass Basketball Player Comes Out As Gay

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published April 9, 2014 at 3:31 PM EDT

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University of Massachusetts basketball player Derrick Gordon has announced he is gay. He is the first openly gay athlete in Division 1 men’s basketball. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Genny Beemyn, the director of the Stonewall Center at UMass Amherst – the campus L-G-T-B center.

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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.

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