Sprinter Dutee Chand becomes India's first openly gay athlete

Runner reveals she is in relationship with woman from her village in Odisha state

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has revealed she is in a same-sex relationship, becoming the country’s first openly gay athlete.

Chand, 23, told the Indian Express she was in a relationship with a woman from her village in eastern Odisha state, saying she found the courage to come out after India’s top court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex last year.

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