There is no age to talk about when I asserted myself to people. I have always been very transparent in life. “It was like I said - I have never denied anything to anyone. “I don’t know exactly when I started to openly declare myself as a homosexual,” he said in an interview this month. He left home at 14 and returned with a boy he was dating and didn’t think anything of it. He said he knew he liked boys from a young age and accepted it as natural. In a sign of how comfortable he is being out, in one video from Tokyo he jokes that his teammates are “hotties.” If I, a skinny little boy from the interior of Sao Paulo did it, so will you. “I want to be a mirror for everyone who feels non-standard. “I want to be remembered as the first homosexual to play volleyball at a high level in Brazil,” he said. He’s also doing is as openly gay, after coming out publicly in 2020. Souza, 25, is a member of the Brazilian men’s team trying to repeat as gold medalists in Tokyo.
Not bad for a “skinny little boy from the interior of Sao Paulo.” Now, after posting videos showing him doing the samba on his bed, modeling his Olympic uniform and lip-syncing a drag performer’s songs, he has grown that number to 1.6 million. A week ago, Brazilian Olympic volleyball star Douglas Souza had 260,000 followers on Instagram.
