Kane Evans showed remarkable bravery to reveal his sexuality to the world and now rugby league must lift to his level.
9 June 2026
Extract: Revealing the secret he's carried inside himself for decades, even as he was doing it, was his "worst nightmare".
"I had three goals in life — to play NRL, to buy my parents a house and then I was going to top myself," Evans said.
"Because I was living in denial. From a young age, I knew that I'm gay but I went down every other avenue to build up these walls to be someone … to escape who I am."
