Hampton’s Perkins Is First HBCU Football Player to Come Out as Gay – Henry Herald

Perkins: “I’ve decided that I’m going to make a change, and stop running away from myself.”

Hampton defensive back Byron Perkins made history Wednesday by becoming the first football player at an HBCU to come out as gay. Perkins, a redshirt junior from Chicago, made the announcement on his Instagram account story, saying that it was time to “stop running away.”