“I am not someone who kisses in front of people, but I want to lie down with a man and be able to touch him. “For far too long I have pushed out who I really am,” he said.

Orlik, 27, said he decided to come out publicly because ”I’d rather be free than fearful.” “I am like that,” Orlik told Christof Gertsch of Switzerland’s The Magazine in a deeply reported article. Curdin Orlik, a champion in the sport of Swiss “swing” wrestling, has come out as gay, becoming Switzerland’s first openly gay active male pro athlete.