It was one year ago that a young football player from the Pacific Northwest came out to the world in the pages of Outsports, one day after coming out to his team. That young man was Conner Mertens, who became the first active NCAA football player to be openly Gay. It has been an incredible year for Conner who has gone on to befriend and mentor other LGBT athletes, had an outstanding year as the place kicker for Williamette University in Oregon, participated in the LGBT Sports Summit sponsored by Nike in Portland, his boyfriend (another LGBT athlete at another school) came out publicly and his year culminated with his being named Outsports' Male Hero of the Year Award for 2014. To celebrate his anniversary, Conner got together with Cyd over at Outsports to relate his Two Favorite Moments in the Year Since Coming Out. I will let you read Conner's words for yourselves, no spoilers here, lol. Congratulations on a fabulous year, may you have many more Conner!
Your Musical Moment for today features the Musical talents of David Garrett whom I introduced you to on the Evening Concert Saturday. I presented his crossover concert then, but today David is demonstrating his mastery of the classics. Today, David is in Concert at the Philharmonie in Berlin with the Festival Strings Lucerne under the direction of Adrian Prabava. His performance is of the Violin Concerto in D Major by Johannes Brahams. As an Encore he plays La Campanella, Opus 7 by Nicolo Paganini. You may join David over on my tumblr for his performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto at the Verbier Festival in 2011. Don't forget to check out the Hottie of the Day! while you are cruising around over there. Thanks for the visit, see you again soon. Until next time as always, Enjoy!
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