The key thing Souza wants people to know is that “people’s awareness is very important for people to understand that we are the same as everyone else. I’ve always been.” Douglas Souza, left, with his boyfriend, Gabriel. 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.