Devin Ibañez by Anthony Grassetti.
Major League Rugby player Devin Ibañez came out publicly as gay only last month but the Massachusetts-born sportsman is loving his new-found sense of freedom.
The New England Jacks player, 27, took the plunge on Instagram just before New Year's Eve, telling fans in a moving post that he wanted to “start 2021 by celebrating the love of my life and my partner Fergus”, adding “I am openly gay."
"The seed was planted in 2016. I suffered a potentially life-threatening injury, where I took a shoulder to the throat in a match," Devin tells us. "The swelling almost closed my airway and caused a fracture to the cricoid cartilage in my throat. I had a big re-evaluation of what I wanted to do [and felt that] coming out publicly in a rugby space would be meaningful t...