LOOK OUT FOR PART 2 IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS it’s abt andrew and neil coming out istg it’s a mess but a very fun one lmao i was so excited to post this that i forgot how to write decent endings THAT'S OK i may? make this an actual fic on ao3 so look out for that too ig andreil andrew minyard neil josten aftg all for the game tfc the foxhole court tkm the king's men post canon coming out gay so gay andreil headcanon andreil hc andreil bullet fic my headcanons happy pride 🌈 aftg pride posts
being out as a couple, though? well, that’s just a whole other story. needless to say, by the time he and neil come out, andrew’s already pretty comfortable with sharing his sexuality on the internet. but every time a kid comes up to him and tells him how he inspired them to come out, those people become easier and easier to forget about. of course, there are some shitty homophobic people. andrew ends up on the face of so many queer magazines and pride events and such. (andrew finds these far too funny - every time he comes across one of these, he just has to share it on social media). there are compilations on youtube like “andrew minyard being a gay icon for 17 minutes” or “20 minutes of andrew minyard being fruity af”. you can’t go a single interview without andrew randomly interjecting the fact that he’s gay. and andrew just… keeps posting gay memes. nicky tweets out an unholy amount of keyboard smashes. and after all this support, andrew eventually becomes a bit more… lax about what he posts. so they’re constantly putting out encouraging messages. lots of sports fans (and people in general) understand how revolutionary it is to have an out athlete of this caliber. it starts with donations to LGBTQ+ groups and messages of support on social media. but in that gap, between andrew being out as gay and actually revealing that he’s dating neil abram josten, andrew is pretty vocal about his sexuality. neil and andrew don’t come out for a while though. it ranges to other exy players to celebrities to random students from PSU. 
fans speculate wildly about which guy andrew minyard could possibly be dating. andrew slumped in his seat, mentally preparing for the next 30 minutes then everyone started talking over each other, asking questions and demanding to learn more. he was going to leave it at that, really, but his mouth moved faster than his mind and before he could stop himself, he blurted out “i do have a boyfriend though” of course this is the one thing they’d ask their most private, closed-off teammate after a bit of drunk conferring with some other teammates, she faces andrew with a glint in her eyes. so after a moment, he glances up at her and says quietly “truth”. that weird feeling is still bubbling up inside his stomach and he figures alcohol will probably make things feel worse andrew blinks slowly, a bit surprised that the question was directed to him. eventually, one of his teammates realizes that no one had asked andrew anything yet, so when it’s her turn, she turns to andrew. so everyone’s getting tipsy while andrew sits quietly in the corner of the sofa. the team is playing a game called “Truth or Drink”, where if you don’t say truth… you drink? he tries to ignore it as best as he can and goes to the interview with his team. it’s bursting inside him, a physical feeling he can’t push down behind the apathy. 
and one day, the morning of a major interview, he’s just hit with the sudden urge to tell someone that he’s gay.andrew isn’t exempt from these feelings.
(but being closeted kinda… makes that hard.there are some days where queer people just feel exceptionally us and we just want to tell everyone we know.that all changes four years after going pro.andrew isn’t super open in front of others, considering how reserved he is in public.but these are (mostly) all private moments.neil has so many videos of andrew getting drunk in front of him and waxing poetic about boys (one in particular) but it gets to the point where he just wants to prove to kevin that yes, he can be successful and gay.he doesn’t really “flaunt it” that much in college.
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