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• E GAY
• FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY CRICKETERS?
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• ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY
• STEVEN DAVI BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL CRICKETER - AND HAS NEVER BEEN HAPPIER

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And this XI all have one thg mon – they are gay. Set up 1996 wh the aim of providg an “opportuny for people to watch and play cricket irrpective of genr or sexual orientatn, ” a world where beg gay wasn’t always accepted, Grac have bee a haven for people to e to terms wh their sexualy while also allowg them to play cricket. They’ve often e om societi where is illegal to be gay and the opportuny to meet like-md dividuals is somethg that Sam Nimaiyar, who was born India, has valued immensely.

FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY

But for Chris Sherwood – the club’s prs and publicy officer – beg able to play cricket and not stand out for beg gay is one of Grac’ unique appeal. “It’s nice not to be ‘the gay one, ’” Sherwood said. “I always feel like if I was a straight team, ’s like ‘oh Chris, he’s the gay one’ and then I have to e out.

“This is the reason ’s difficult for people to e out bee there’s all this banter about gay beg lser somehow and to sudnly go ‘that’s me, I’m gay, ’ ’s que a difficult thg to do.

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Modi moved om India to the UK 2004 and although he had known he was gay for the prev 18 months, he’d never had any gay relatnships. Upon movg to London, a batn of his membership at Grac, his new gay iends and his ex-boyiend – whom he still creds for much of the posive aspects of his life – Modi cid to e out to the most important person his life – his dad.

In tradnal Indian culture, where arranged marriag are often the norm, to have an openly gay relative would harm a fay’s abily to attract potentially prospero spo. Although is timated that the law change affected 104 ln gay Indians, is still not monplace to be openly gay Indian society.

Whether is bee of tradnal attus or homophobic beliefs that still permeate through the untry as a rult of relig iologi, the numbers of openly gay people India is disproportnate to the populatn of India.

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It’s impossible to ppot a sgular actn that will fively change the perspective of the Indian populatn of the LGBT muny, but speakg to Modi and Nimaiyar, is clear that they believe that havg famo Indian ins – whether they are sports stars or celebri other walks of life – voice their support for the LGBT muny, is somethg that uld signifintly help gay people.

However, she advised him not to e out to his brother and father bee “they would rather you be a rapist or murrer than gay.

And isn’t jt the ethnic ntgent of the club who have had to al wh homophobic abe durg their liv. There is nothg wrong wh beg gay. ” Not only was Root standg up on behalf of all gay cricket players, but subsequently srg a century after makg the ment, he did what the members at Grac’ have learnt to do – let the cricket do the talkg.

ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY

(Getty File Photo)Former New Zealand fast bowler Heath Davis has bee the untry's first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly e out as gay. He told The Spoff that was durg his first tour to England 1994 when he started to really disver himself, although he had told his mother at an early age he was gay. I had systems and people place where I uld talk about the thgs but I didn't feel fortable, " Mr Davis revealed that he entered his first gay relatnship when he was 27 years old while playg for Wellgton, but the pair was reluctant to appear public.

And after shiftg, he then told his new team's manager he was gay, which was passed on to his team members and "didn't seem to be that big an issue". Notably, as per ESPN, the first ternatnal male cricketer to publicly e out as gay was the former England wicketkeeper Steven Davi mentned this article. are there any Gay cricketers?

Y, Lara is que gay today after he sred 196*. Why do matter if a cricketer is gay? There's probably one or two, but profsnal sport isn't the most fivg occupatn for an "out" gay man, one wouldn't thk.

STEVEN DAVI BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL CRICKETER - AND HAS NEVER BEEN HAPPIER

The unfortunate realy is that if a man me out as beg gay a game such as Amerin football, he'd likely have his kne taken out trag mp by one of his teammat before he even ma to the regular season.

I'm sure that's te many s, but there have out gay men fairly "manly" sports before. Someone who follows gby league will know his name, but there was a pretty well known and succsful gay player the NRL the 90s.