Asie Rul Football League players e out as gay uple - Outsports

Contents:

• MATT HALL PAVED THE WAY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ASIE L PLAYER
• GAY ASIE L PLAYERS - ARE YOU OUT THERE?
• ASIE FOOTBALLERS IN SNDAL AFTER ALLEGEDLY PERFORMG GAY SEX ACT IN PUBLIC
• ASIE RUL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS E OUT AS GAY UPLE
• THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
• GAY ATRALIAN RUL PLAYERS ENURAGED TO COME-OUT BY TEAM-MAT
• GAY FOOTBALLER AND ACTIVIST JASON BALL REFLECTS ON G OUT
• ASIE RUL FOOTBALL PLAYER OUT AS GAY
• ASIE RUL FOOTBALL PLAYERS TAKE STAND AGAST ANTI-GAY LANGUAGE
• ATRALIA FALLY HAS S FIRST FEMALE AFL PLAYERS, AND S FIRST GAY ON TOO.
• STRAIGHT MAN EARNS $1500 PER HOUR AS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ RT
• 'I DIDN'T KNOW ANY FOOTBALLERS WHO WERE GAY'

MATT HALL PAVED THE WAY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ASIE L PLAYER

The first openly gay Asie Rul player via Blue Magaze, 2002.

GAY ASIE L PLAYERS - ARE YOU OUT THERE?

Blue Magaze wrote an article about pneerg gay sportsman Matt Hall prr to his partakg Sydney’s Gay Gam 2002 as a basketballer. In the landmark article he talked about some of the landmark moments his life, cludg his heterosexual marriage before he me out as a gay man, his r accint where he had to rever om juri and for the first time felt mortal his life. At that time would’ve been near impossible for him to be out as a gay man, nsirg he’d already been ostracised by some his social circle due to his HIV stat.

ASIE FOOTBALLERS IN SNDAL AFTER ALLEGEDLY PERFORMG GAY SEX ACT IN PUBLIC

So his credible g out story through Blue magaze was a blsg for gay sportg people Atralia and worldwi. Hall said the 2nd openly gay Asie Rul player Jason Ball has “erased my own” legacy by “him ntug to claim he was the first to e out spe beg a later 2012. SportThis was published 19 years agoDpe support, any gay footballers are keepg quiet.

ASIE RUL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS E OUT AS GAY UPLE

When big-htg gby league prop forward Ian Roberts me out 1995 and told the world he was gay, many thought the fal closet had opened.

THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS

But as history has proved across sport, is not easy to be a gay sports star - pecially if you're a man.

Most statistics pot to between 5 and 10 per cent of the populatn beg gay: Atralian Rul Football is more than 100 years old and wh about 680 ntracted AFL players this year, the numbers suggts not everyone's beg hont. Why has there never been an openly gay Atralian Rul footballer?

GAY ATRALIAN RUL PLAYERS ENURAGED TO COME-OUT BY TEAM-MAT

Coburg Football Club print Phil Cleary said he played agast a very tough and skilled footballer at a senr level of Atralian Rul who was gay.

Mr Clearly said the man remaed unwillg to talk about the issue bee he did not want to be remembered as "the gay footballer". McGuire appears on the ont ver of this month's issue of glossy gay monthly QMagaze and is quoted as sayg he would be "rapt" if Collgwood was the first club to have an openly gay player.

GAY FOOTBALLER AND ACTIVIST JASON BALL REFLECTS ON G OUT

McGuire said he uld not speak for other clubs on their attu towards gay footballers but add he was prepared to give Richmond the benef of the doubt over s cisn not to allow star rec Nathan Brown play a gay doctor on The Footy Show. "I am prepared to back the Tigers that wasn't homophobic, although appeared at the time that was, " McGuire said.

ASIE RUL FOOTBALL PLAYER OUT AS GAY

Carlton print Ian Colls told The Sunday Age that Carlton would have no problems draftg a gay player or if one of their players clared he was homosexual.

ASIE RUL FOOTBALL PLAYERS TAKE STAND AGAST ANTI-GAY LANGUAGE

Richard Watts, head of Collgwood's gay supporter group the Pk Magpi, suggted there remaed "a strong, but fairly vert, level of homophobia football which is a real discentive to e out".

He said the AFL was unlikely to al wh the issue of gay footballers until one was intified. But, acrdg to gay ic and morng rad prenter Adam Richard, is not jt the absence of l protectg gay rights that is hibg the emergence of gay AFL footballers.

Richard said that some society were slower than others to embrace changg muny attus towards homosexuals. "I know a iend of me was wrg an article for a gay newspaper a uple of years ago and ntacted a club, which I will not name, and he was told no uncerta terms there were no gay players at the club and there never would be any players at the club, " Richard said.

ATRALIA FALLY HAS S FIRST FEMALE AFL PLAYERS, AND S FIRST GAY ON TOO.

" The chief executive of the AFL Players Associatn, Rob Kerr, said he uld not intify a reason why there had never been a clared homosexual footballer but said the associatn would fully support any player who announced this.

STRAIGHT MAN EARNS $1500 PER HOUR AS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ RT

Billie Jean Kg, the legendary Amerin tennis champn, said she lost 10 years of sponsorship als when she was outed as gay. English soccer star Jt Fashanu, 1990, beme the first and only English soccer player to announce he was homosexual.

His reer plummeted after the announcement and 1998 he hanged was not que as tough an oral for NSW gby league star Ian Roberts when he me out 1995 as Atralia's first gay footballer - but neher was easy.

One letter he received may go some way to answerg why there has never been an openly gay AFL footballer.

'I DIDN'T KNOW ANY FOOTBALLERS WHO WERE GAY'

” This is famo mentary on the homosocial behavurs of men and the performative nature of masculy.

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