Shad Smith: A Portrait of a Gay MMA Fighter

Shad is the first openly gay mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. From the New York Times:

I asked Smith why he spent so much of his youth looking for trouble. I expected some sort of clichéd, though possibly true, explanation — a difficult childhood or a Napoleon complex. What I didn’t expect him to say was, “You know, bro, the sexual-preference thing.”