10 Gay Rugby Players Who Ma Their Come Out - Disver Walks Blog

Contents:

• IS GBY AS GAY AS LOOKS? A CURUFC PLAYER’S PERSPECTIVE
• FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• RUGBY PLAYER IS ALSO GAY PORN STAR COLBY JANSEN
• LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
• 10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT
• CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE OUT AS GAY, FORMER ALL BLACKS GBY PLAYER HAS GLOBAL REACH
• EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE
• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
• WAL GBY LEGEND GARETH THOMAS OUT AS GAY

IS GBY AS GAY AS LOOKS? A CURUFC PLAYER’S PERSPECTIVE

Wh the issue of homophobia football htg the headl, one player reveals his experience as a gay man the world of gby. One stunt attribut the solidary among gby teams to his posive experienc as a gay gby playerOli Butler. Rugby, taken out of s sportg ntext, is about as homoerotic as a platonic activy n get.

I beme obssed wh gby at the same age I began to realise I was gay: 11.

I was very lucky to have this social pal to protect me when mours emerged that I was gay. (If you didn’t know, I’m gay and play gby #niche).

FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY

The only b of -game homophobia that has ever been directed at me me one of my first XV gam when the opposn hooker emerged om a scm and lled me a “f***g f*ggot”. It was this reactn which has epomised my relatnship wh homophobia: gby, your teammat have your back.

My favoure recent one has been: “Do you watch gay porn? This nocent ignorance do filter through to what I would refer to as ‘lazy homophobia’.

General “locker room banter”, to quote Mr Tmp, is omniprent – like llg someone gay for not enjoyg the fensive aspect of the game. Comments like this don’t make someone homophobic, but they do pat an image of an unwelg environment, which n make very timidatg to e out to people – particularly if those around you are olr (and bigger).

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

I thk ’s a shame that flippant ments like this give the imprsn that gby is not a sport for all sexuali bee, while may seem disuragg om the outsi, homophobia, om my experience, is not particularly apparent a team. A major reason for this is the high-profile openly gay dividuals who are begng to brg gby’s hidn diversy to light. Nigel Owens, who is wily regnised as one of the bt refere the world, is openly gay and has been vol on how the gby world has been hugely acmodatg.

It is the sport’s rponsibily to posively promote anti-homophobia, and anti-bullyg general, so that the majory of people who are acceptg have a lour voice than those who prott.

Former New Zealand gby player Campbell Johnstone beme the first All Black to e out publicly as gay, an terview wh TVNZ’s Seven Sharp on Monday. “If I n be the first All Black that out as gay and take away the prsure and stigma surroundg the issue n actually help other people, ” Johnstone said. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

RUGBY PLAYER IS ALSO GAY PORN STAR COLBY JANSEN

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

This week, we have a gby player turned gay porn star Colby Jansen. Recently I’ve sort of relented to fallg unr the label of bisexual as I jt haven’t had the energy to keep reeratg that I’m not gay for pay. Ex-NFL players Wa Davis, Esera Tuaolo talk growg up gay for Sports Illtrated.

How gay is your favore NFL anchise? Gay sports news: Brney Grer ris above bullyg; porn stars follow Kluwe; gay speedskater One Directn Fan. Podst: Jason Colls not signed yet, MLB issu clear gay policy.

LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

The Lester scm-half Nick McCarthy has e out as gay, and thanked ach Leo Cullen and Stuart Lanster for their “unbelievable” support. I need to accept beg gay myself before I uld addrs wh others.

Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho/ShutterstockFellow Lester player Dunne revealed his bisexualy last year, around the same time Nassib announced he was gay and a few months before Atralian Cavallo ma headl across the world by sharg his news.

Last month, Blackpool’s Jake Daniels beme the first UK-based male footballer to e out as gay sce 1990.

10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT

Rugby is one of the most loved sports the world and due to s physily, is regard as a “manly” sport, which mak more difficult for gay players to publicly acknowledge their preference.

The players have bee a bean of light bee they overme stereotyp and other challeng faced by homosexual athlet way too often. Nigel Owens, one of the bt refere the world, is openly gay and has been vol about how the gby world has been hugely acmodatg.

It is the sport’s rponsibily to posively promote anti-homophobia, and anti-bullyg general, so that the majory of people who are acceptg have a lour voice than those who prott. In this article, we’ll look at 10 Gay Rugby Players and how they are shapg the game today.

CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE OUT AS GAY, FORMER ALL BLACKS GBY PLAYER HAS GLOBAL REACH

In the gby world, he tak cred as the very first high-profile player to ever e out to the public as gay. After his Saturday afternoon on the pch, is reported that Roberts would spend Saturday night on Oxford Street, Sydney’s gay quarter. His brave actn saw other gay gby players g out publicly to nfs their sexual orientatn.

Followg the footsteps of Ian Roberts who may have been the first high-profile player to openly adm beg gay, Keegan Hirst was arguably the first ever to do while still actively playg gby. Currently a Wakefield Try prop, Hirst has bee one of the most notable gay athlet, earng him a startg role after signg a ntract wh the League si 2016.

In an terview wh the Sunday Mirror, the now divorced father of two and self-nfsed gay tells of the moment he fally found the words to expla to his wife the reason they uld no longer be together. Sam Stanley beme the first openly gay Rugby Unn and Sevens player the UK 2015.

EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE

He fends himself by sayg, “Millns of people are the suatn, even people who have been Lrence’s (his partner) suatn and they are still married but are gay. He is one of the current crop of players who have e out openly to say that they are gay. As a young spired player he stated, “…this is pretty spirg for me as a fairly new player who happens to be gay, I had held off pursug gby bee of but the guys i play wh give no shs whatsoever and we have good banter about .

Shame some ele gby players are still sayg anti-gay thgs on social media. A large athlete at 6 ft 4 (193 cm) and 225 pounds (102 kg), Bgham was a robt send-row man who played for the gay-clive San Francis Fog RFC and was a favore for his teammat the gby songs that he tght them. This also ma him bee an inic figure for gay gby players and sportspeople around the world.

To honor him, The Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament, simply known as the Bgham Cup and was started 2002, is a biennial gay gby unn tournament is named after the former gby player. Gareth ‘Alfie’ Thomas was a profsnal Welsh Rugby player who broke one of the biggt taboos the sport when he announced his homosexualy 2009.

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

In 2010 he was voted the most fluential gay person the UK The Inpennt on Sunday Pk Listand received Stonewall’s Hero of the Year. He scribed his experience as a secretly gay player, revealg how social prsure and stereotyp pose a signifint challenge for many athlet today. He is a voted activist for the LGBT e, wng “Gay Sports Personaly of the De” at the Stonewall awards ceremony London back 2015.

The 36-year-old Texas-born athlete has e a long way om the homophobia she wnsed firsthand high school. “One of my iends got cut om the basketball team bee she was gay. She also thks that playg the game as a gay athlete is not really a big issue.

Campbell Johnstone, a former gby player New Zealand who played for the natnal All Blacks team, has e out publicly as gay.

WAL GBY LEGEND GARETH THOMAS OUT AS GAY

“If I n be the first All Black that out as gay and take away the prsure and the stigma surroundg that whole issue, then n actually help other people, ” he said on the Seven Sharp TV program earlier today. Men’s gby has seen var stars e out publicly as gay over the years. He was also the first profsnal gby unn player to announce that he was gay, when he me out 2009.

Thomas married his wife, Jemma, 2002, but they later divorced before he announced that he was gay 2009. I me to the realizatn that the stroke had turned me gay, ” he a stroke, parts of the bra that have been starved of oxygen di and n e permanent damage, but the bra n also make new nral nnectns and fd different pathways to plete the same tasks and n sometim affect how a person thks, mov or the stroke, Birch had been a beefy, beer drkg athlete workg at a bank and loved motorbik and his girliend he was engaged to be married, and sce the accint a year ago the now 27-year-old qu his bank job, slimmed down 72 pounds, beme a hairdrser and moved out of his home the Welsh valleys and started datg men. Qazi Rahman of Queen Mary, Universy of London, who has done extensive rearch to the nrologil differenc between gay and straight men and women, has studied hundreds of lbian, gay and straight volunteers and found certa key patterns that may reveal if a person is born gay or, who believ that the bras of gay men uld be wired differently to those of straight men, ved Birch to unrgo the puter-based tts to see if he may have been born gay and found that on half of the tts the ex-gby player sred the “expected directn” for a gay man and the other half of the rults showed that he was wh the range of a straight man.

Sudad Jawad said that he has worked wh young people who have suffered strok and has even e across a siar se to Birch, where a man reported that his sexualy had changed om homosexual to heterosexual. Dpe all the problems he’s had his life sce he woke up as a homosexual, he said he has no regrets over how his life has turned a few months of movg out of his fay home he started datg his then 19-year-old boyiend and now fiancé Jak Powell, who believ that Birch had always been gay and the accint jt helped the self-proclaimed ex-straight man realize .