Bisexual AFL player Mitch Brown has opened up about his life after coming out in 2025, saying he feels “at peace”. Brown appeared on ABC Radio Melbourne on 25 February, during which a previous soundbite was played. Speaking not long after he came out in August, Brown can be heard saying that he “had this feeling of peace… comfort and confidence”. Speaking this week, he shared more about his thought process behind coming out, saying he was out for years to a handful of “safe” people before he announced it publicly. “I just never once felt that I had the place to speak up,” he said. “I have my own bi erasure and I grappled with the challenging aspect of that,” he continued candidly. “I’m like, maybe the first person in the AFL men’s competition to come out and speak out publicly should be a gay man, someone that walks down the Brownlow red carpet with a man side by side. And I just never felt that.” However, his way of thinking soon changed. “I got to a point where I was like, stuff it,” he said. “This has got to stop… harmful patterns of behaviour, not just homophobic slurs in the AFL but men’s behaviour in particular.” He continued: “I was like, I don’t care if no one knows who I am, I’m just going to say something, and I decided within three days before I came out publicly, I said to myself, ‘Just get to the interview, I'm not even going to think about the reaction. Just get on camera and say those words: I’m a bisexual man.’” When he came out in August last year, Brown made history as he became the first ever men’s Australian Football League player to come out as bisexual. He told the Daily Aus at the time that he believes there to be closeted players in the AFL today.