Contents:
- ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE
- THE GAY ATRALIAN CRICKET CHAMPNS AND TEAMMAT JT GOT MARRIED
- GAY ATRALIAN CRICKETERS
- CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'
ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE
FOR most people, changg their Twter profile is not a signifint then there’s Atralian Women’s Cricket player Elyse Villani, who ma the cisn to add the le ‘Proud Gay Athlete’ to her social media didn’t gge the opn of all her iends and fay before htg the ed button. SIGN UP NOW >Elyse Villani hs out durg the World Cup match agast Getty ImagVillani has reprented Atralia 69 match all three formats of the game and is an unassumg and urageo role is one of very few openly gay athlet to reprent Atralia at a World Cup and at last year’s R Olympics there was only one openly gay Atralian athlete, Matilda Michelle n listen to the full terview on the Atralian Cricket Podst here or iTun.
Villani took some time out of her by World Cup Campaign to speak on the Atralian Cricket Podst and says she ma the cisn to e out publicly after beg on the sportg float at the 2015 Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras wh fellow Atralian Women’s cricketer Alex Blackwell. Blackwell, the Atralian Women’s Vice-pta, was the first openly gay Atralian cricketer to wear the baggy green and Villani has no regrets about the cisn to follow her footsteps.
THE GAY ATRALIAN CRICKET CHAMPNS AND TEAMMAT JT GOT MARRIED
Villani celebrat the wicket of England's Natalie APHer cisn to e out publicly displayed the sort of gr and termatn that has seen her bounce back om an early reer axg to now feature at the top of Atralian Women’s how important is to be one of the few openly gay athlet to reprent Atralia at a World Cup?
GAY ATRALIAN CRICKETERS
Sydney: A fe swg bowler for Atralia's women's cricket team and a champn of same-sex marriage, Megan Schutt is upset wh her male unterparts Jam Pattson and Marc Stois' recent homophobic slurs.
She wants men to be more receptive towards homosexualy as they are "attacked" more for beg gay. She was asked about the recent cints which two Atralian players, Pattson and Stois, were sanctned for homophobic slurs on the field. It's disappotg that we still e that language, and I don't believe that those boys actually are homophobic, I tly don't.
Schutt said men are attacked more for beg gay. "I haven't been attacked for beg a lbian but I know men that have been for beg gay. "And the fact that 's always men that are still g those rogatory terms is the most disappotg part of bee they're gog to have gay iends, whether they're out to them or not.
CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'
Atralia, as a untry, has ma signifint progrs terms of LGBTQ+ rights, and cricket has also seen a few gay players. Currently, there are no openly gay cricketers the Atralian natnal team. However, a few former Atralian cricketers have e out as gay after retirg om the sport.