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And no, it wasn't the fact that he snapped. He said, "But I hate, hate, hate that I didn't just say 'I'm gay' on air." Even though Virtel believes people would have already known he was gay, he mentions how radically different the Jeopardy audience is from his website's demographic.

After he started writing his article and ode to Jeopardy, "I also realized how much my serious obsession with Jeopardy shrinks in comparison to my commitment to owning my gayness as outwardly and as explicitly as possible," he told BuzzFeed.