He went on to say he had previously struggled to share this publicly because of stereotypes. Earlier this year I finally understood that I'm bi/pan (still trying to figure that one out).' 'But because of certain very personal reasons, I always rejected that side of me. 'For a long time I've known that I wasn't straight,' he wrote on Twitter on National Coming Out Day, October 11, 2o2o. In 2020, he made headlines again when he came out in a Twitter thread. Leyva competed in the London 2012 and the Rio 2016 Olympic games for the USA, winning bronze and silver, respectively.
