Manly Sea Eagl ach apologis for handlg of gay pri jerseys as seven refe to play

MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY
HOW MANLY’S PRI JERSEY SAGA TOOK A TOLL ON PASIFIKA AND LGBTIQ+ MUNY GROUPSMANLY AND THE NRL HAVE BEEN URGED TO "LIFT YOUR GAME" AFTER FAILG TO NSULT WH STAKEHOLRS, LEAVG PASIFIKA AND LGBTIQ+ MUNY GROUPS SHATTERED AFTER THE CLUB'S PRI JERSEY SAGA.(LEFT TO RIGHT) MANLY SEA EAGL PLAYERS SEAN KEPPIE, KIERAN FORAN AND RBEN GARRICK WEARG THE CLUB'S PRI JERSEY. SOURCE: AAP / SUPPLIED/PR IMAGEKEY POTSMANAGEMENT OF NRL MANLY SEA EAGL HAS BEEN CRICISED BY BOTH THE RELIG PASIFIKA AND LGBTIQ+ MUNI.A RPORATE CISN AIMED AT DIVERSY AND CLN END UP LEAVG PEOPLE THE LURCH, MUNY MEMBERS SAID.THE MANLY SEA EAGL TEND FOR A MOMENTO OCSN FOR THE WIR NATNAL RUGBY LEAGUE (NRL) MUNY TO BOLSTER DIVERSY AND CLN. INSTEAD, EXPERTS SAY THE CLUB N TAKE LSONS OM WHAT WAS A MASTERCLASS ON HOW NOT TO APPROACH PLEX TERSECTNAL ISSU OF FAH AND SEXUALY THE WORKPLACE. THE SYDNEY-BASED CLUB WAS EMBROILED NTROVERSY THIS WEEK AFTER SEVEN PLAYERS STOOD DOWN OM THURSDAY'S MATCH AGAST THE SYDNEY ROOSTERS FOR REFG TO WEAR A JERSEY AIMED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY. THE "EVERYONE LEAGUE" JERSEY WAS LNCHED ON MONDAY AHEAD OF THE WOMEN LEAGUE ROUND, FEATURG RABOW STRIP GENERALLY KNOWN AS A SYMBOL OF LGBTIQ+ PRI.COACH D HASLER ONTED THE MEDIA ON TUDAY, APOLOGISG "SCERELY" FOR THE "NFN, DISFORT AND PA" TO HIS PLAYG GROUP, THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AND THE WIR GBY LEAGUE. "SADLY THIS POOR MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT ED SIGNIFINT NFN AND DISAPPOTMENT AND PA FOR MANY PEOPLE, PARTICULAR THOSE GROUPS WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS WE WERE FACT ATTEMPTG TO SUPPORT," HASLER SAID. HASLER NCED THAT FAILG TO NSULT WH THE TEAM OR ACHG STAFF ABOUT THE JERSEY WAS AN OVERSIGHT OM MANAGEMENT FUELLED "NEGATIVE NEWS" A ROUND AIMED TO CELEBRATE WOMEN THE LEAGUE. THE DRAMA HAS LED TO HUGE DISAPPOTMENT OM PASIFIKA MUNI, SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN PERCEIVED AS HOMOPHOBIC FOR THEIR RELIG VALU. LIKEWISE, THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY HAVE EXPRSED HEARTBREAK AT THE PLAYER BOYTT, WHO FEEL UNACCEPTED THE LEAGUE. PASIFIKA CULTURE AND SEXUALY AT A CROSSROADSSIX OF THE SEVEN PLAYERS WHO MA THE CISN TO BOYTT THE PRI JERSEY HAIL OM THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, A REGN THAT HAS STRONG TI TO RELIGN AND CULTURE. JJI RAVULO, CHAIR OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL STUDI AT THE UNIVERSY OF SYDNEY, SAID TO UNRSTAND THE PLAYERS' CISN, 'S IMPORTANT TO ASK: "HOW DID WE GET HERE THE FIRST PLACE?"PROFSOR RAVULO, WHO IS FIJIAN-INDIGENO AND IS VOLVED WH THE NRL TO FACILATE CULTURAL AWARENS TRAG FOR THE PLAYERS, SAID THAT PASIFIKA MUNI HAVE "LEARNED A LOT OF THE RIGID VIEWS ON SEXUALY OM WHE WTERN PERSPECTIV". "PRR TO LONISATN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, MANY OF , AS SEXUAL BEGS, OUR SEXUALY WAS FLUID," HE SAID. JJI RAVULO HAS WORKED WH THE NRL FOR MORE THAN A THE TN AND WELLBEG SECTOR. CRED: THE UNIVERSY OF SYDNEY"THE IA THAT WE CREATE TENSN AROUND OUR SEXUALY IS SOMETHG THAT I THK WTERN SOCIETY HAS PLACED ON ."ONCE WE ENABLE PEOPLE TO FEEL SAFE FOR THEIR CULTURAL DIVERSY AND S DIFFERENC THE SPAC, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GOG TO SEE A LOT OF CHANGE AND BETTER ATTUS TOWARDS CLN." 'THE BOYS ARE NOT THERE TO HURT ANYBODY'SAMOAN PASTOR MAFI MATA'AFA SAID THAT THE PLAYERS HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY NMNED AS BEG HOMOPHOBIC BUT THEIR PLEX RELIG AND CULTURAL NNECTN WASN'T NSIRED BEFORE THE JERSEY WAS LNCHED. THE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OF THE PLAYERS ARE NOT JT TURNG UP TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY. THIS IS THEM.MAFI MATA'AFA"THE BOYS ARE NOT THERE TO HURT ANYBODY. THEY ARE JT THERE TO SAY TO THEIR CLUB, 'WE HAVE A BELIEF. WE HAVE A VIEW. AND WE WANT TO BE LISTENED TO,'" HE SAID. MR MATA'AFA SAID HE MEND THE PLAYERS FOR FENDG THEIR BELIEFS, SPE THE "ENORMO" BACKLASH THEY KNEW THEY WOULD RECEIVE, AS WELL AS THE PSYCHOLOGIL IMPACT N HAVE ON THEM. "I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A VERY HARSH NSEQUENCE ON THE YOUNG BOYS ... THIS N BE VERY DANGERO TO SOME OF THEM." MAFI MATA'AFA IS A SAMOAN PASTOR BASED SYDNEY'S WT, WHO HAS MEND THE SEVEN PLAYERS FOR MAKG A CISN LE WH THEIR VALU. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / FELICY DAVEY"THE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OF THE PLAYERS ARE NOT JT TURNG UP TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY. THIS IS THEM. AND TO TELL SOMEONE TO CHANGE YOU JT BY MAKG THEM, AFTER AN ANNOUNCEMENT - 'S VERY POOR."PROFSOR RAVULO SAID RELIG EEDOMS "N'T EXIST WH A VACUUM", EXPLAG THAT THE TERSECTNS OF CULTURE AND GENR MT -EXIST THE NVERSATN FOR TO CREATE AN ACCEPTG CULTURE THE NRL. 'IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE E TO THIS'TRANS SAMOAN WOMAN AND -SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATNAL LBIAN GAY ASSOCIATN (ILGA) WORLD, TUISA YMANIA BROWN SAID THE NTROVERSY AROUND THE JERSEYS HAS "TOTALLY TARNISHED" THE SIGNIFINCE OF LGBTIQ+ CLIVY. SHE SAID THERE WAS A "TOTAL LACK OF LEARSHIP" THE MANAGEMENT THAT LED TO DISASTRO NSEQUENC FOR BOTH THE PASIFIKA AND LGBTIQ+ MUNI SHE IS A STRONG PART OF. "IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE E TO THIS," MS BROWN SAID. TUISA YMANIA BROWN IS A SAMOAN TRANS LEAR FOR THE LGBTIQ+ AND PASIFIKA MUNI. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / FELICY DAVEY"THE APPETE FOR THE ATRALIAN PEOPLE IS THEY WANT CLIVY. THEY WANT TO SUPPORT LGBT PEOPLE. THEY WANT THAT FOR . BUT SPORTS S, THEY NEED TO DO THEIR PART."DIVERSY COUNCIL OF ATRALIA CEO LISA ANNE SAID IF THE CLUB SPOKE WH THE PLAYG GROUP BEFORE WAS "SPNG" ONTO THEM, THIS DRAMA ULD HAVE BEEN AVOID."I THK THAT A RPONSIBLE ANISATN WOULD TRY TO HAVE A DISCSN WH EACH DIVIDUAL TO TRY TO UNRSTAND WHAT THEIR NCERNS ARE," SHE SAID. MS BROWN LLED OUT THE NRL, MANLY'S CLUB MANAGEMENT AND ALL SPORTS S TO LEARN OM THIS LSON, "LIFT YOUR GAME" AND FOR THE "LEARS TO ACT LIKE THE ADULTS, S DOWN AND FIX THIS". READ MORETHE ATRALIAN ATHLET CHAMPNG LGBTIQ+ PRI SPORTWH ALMOST HALF OF PLAYERS THE NRL PRISG PASIFIKA AND MAORI HERAGE, AN IMPORTANT STEP IS TO BRG PASIFIKA MUNY LEARS TO THE TABLE TO AVOID ANYONE BEG EXCLUD BOTH ON AND OFF THE FIELD, SHE SAID."AND ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ALL WANT, AS ATRALIANS WHO PLAY SPORTS AND WHO LOVE AND FOLLOW SPORT? ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ALL WANT TO BE TREATED THE SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE? NOBODY WANTS TO BE EXCLUD AND [TOLD], 'AH, YOU GOTTA S THIS ONE OUT.'" IS NRL READY FOR A PRI ROUND?ATRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE COMMISSN CHAIR PETER V'LANDYS HAS KEPT THE OPTN OPEN FOR A PRI ROUND TO BE LNCHED AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR BUT THE MANLY JERSEY SAGA HAS RAISED QUTNS ABOUT WHETHER WILL BE POSSIBLE. MR MATA'AFI ULDN'T BE SURE IF PRR NSULTATN WOULD CHANGE ALL PLAYERS' VIEWS TO PARTICIPATE A PRI ROUND, BUT HE KNEW A NVERSATN ULD CERTALY HELP. "IT'S IMPORTANT TO S DOWN AND TALK. IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALLOW THEM TO EXPRS WHAT THEY BELIEVE, AND THEN E TO SOME SORT OF RMED NCLN SOMEWHERE OF WHAT TO DO." MS ANSE BELIEVED THAT WHEN PEOPLE GET THE NVERSATN ROLLG, ALL OPTNS REMA ON THE TABLE. "IT'S POSSIBLE THAT WH SOME TN SOME PEOPLE WOULD BE BROUGHT ALONG THE JOURNEY." ADDNAL REPORTG BY TOM CATI. SHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 28 JULY 2022 5:35PMUPDATED 28 JULY 2022 6:15PMBY RAYANE TAMER, FELICY DAVEYSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
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MANLY SEA EAGL PRI JERSEY: GAY CLUB LEGEND IAN ROBERTS SAYS DISPUTE IS 'SAD AND UNFORTABLE'

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”Ian Roberts, the former Manly player who 1995 as a Sea Eagle beme the first NRL player to publicly e out as gay, said he was “heartbroken” at the suatn but later weled the club’s apology.

He wasn’t the first gay man to play gby league – I’ll give the tip – he was the first to have urage to e out and pave the way for others to do so. Manly Sea Eagl ach D Hasler has apologised over the club's handlg of the cln of rabow lours on the club jersey, sayg was a "signifint mistake" pots:Seven players will boytt Thursday's game over the gay pri shirtHasler says the club's executn of the iative was "poor"Manly will face the Roosters on Thursday wh a greatly dispted siSeven players are boyttg their NRL match on Thursday over their team's cisn to wear a gay pri jersey.

HOW MANLY’S PRI JERSEY SAGA TOOK A TOLL ON PASIFIKA AND LGBTIQ+ MUNY GROUPSMANLY AND THE NRL HAVE BEEN URGED TO "LIFT YOUR GAME" AFTER FAILG TO NSULT WH STAKEHOLRS, LEAVG PASIFIKA AND LGBTIQ+ MUNY GROUPS SHATTERED AFTER THE CLUB'S PRI JERSEY SAGA.(LEFT TO RIGHT) MANLY SEA EAGL PLAYERS SEAN KEPPIE, KIERAN FORAN AND RBEN GARRICK WEARG THE CLUB'S PRI JERSEY. SOURCE: AAP / SUPPLIED/PR IMAGEKEY POTSMANAGEMENT OF NRL MANLY SEA EAGL HAS BEEN CRICISED BY BOTH THE RELIG PASIFIKA AND LGBTIQ+ MUNI.A RPORATE CISN AIMED AT DIVERSY AND CLN END UP LEAVG PEOPLE THE LURCH, MUNY MEMBERS SAID.THE MANLY SEA EAGL TEND FOR A MOMENTO OCSN FOR THE WIR NATNAL RUGBY LEAGUE (NRL) MUNY TO BOLSTER DIVERSY AND CLN. INSTEAD, EXPERTS SAY THE CLUB N TAKE LSONS OM WHAT WAS A MASTERCLASS ON HOW NOT TO APPROACH PLEX TERSECTNAL ISSU OF FAH AND SEXUALY THE WORKPLACE. THE SYDNEY-BASED CLUB WAS EMBROILED NTROVERSY THIS WEEK AFTER SEVEN PLAYERS STOOD DOWN OM THURSDAY'S MATCH AGAST THE SYDNEY ROOSTERS FOR REFG TO WEAR A JERSEY AIMED TO SHOW SOLIDARY WH THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY. THE "EVERYONE LEAGUE" JERSEY WAS LNCHED ON MONDAY AHEAD OF THE WOMEN LEAGUE ROUND, FEATURG RABOW STRIP GENERALLY KNOWN AS A SYMBOL OF LGBTIQ+ PRI.COACH D HASLER ONTED THE MEDIA ON TUDAY, APOLOGISG "SCERELY" FOR THE "NFN, DISFORT AND PA" TO HIS PLAYG GROUP, THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY AND THE WIR GBY LEAGUE. "SADLY THIS POOR MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT ED SIGNIFINT NFN AND DISAPPOTMENT AND PA FOR MANY PEOPLE, PARTICULAR THOSE GROUPS WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS WE WERE FACT ATTEMPTG TO SUPPORT," HASLER SAID. HASLER NCED THAT FAILG TO NSULT WH THE TEAM OR ACHG STAFF ABOUT THE JERSEY WAS AN OVERSIGHT OM MANAGEMENT FUELLED "NEGATIVE NEWS" A ROUND AIMED TO CELEBRATE WOMEN THE LEAGUE. THE DRAMA HAS LED TO HUGE DISAPPOTMENT OM PASIFIKA MUNI, SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN PERCEIVED AS HOMOPHOBIC FOR THEIR RELIG VALU. LIKEWISE, THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY HAVE EXPRSED HEARTBREAK AT THE PLAYER BOYTT, WHO FEEL UNACCEPTED THE LEAGUE. PASIFIKA CULTURE AND SEXUALY AT A CROSSROADSSIX OF THE SEVEN PLAYERS WHO MA THE CISN TO BOYTT THE PRI JERSEY HAIL OM THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, A REGN THAT HAS STRONG TI TO RELIGN AND CULTURE. JJI RAVULO, CHAIR OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL STUDI AT THE UNIVERSY OF SYDNEY, SAID TO UNRSTAND THE PLAYERS' CISN, 'S IMPORTANT TO ASK: "HOW DID WE GET HERE THE FIRST PLACE?"PROFSOR RAVULO, WHO IS FIJIAN-INDIGENO AND IS VOLVED WH THE NRL TO FACILATE CULTURAL AWARENS TRAG FOR THE PLAYERS, SAID THAT PASIFIKA MUNI HAVE "LEARNED A LOT OF THE RIGID VIEWS ON SEXUALY OM WHE WTERN PERSPECTIV". "PRR TO LONISATN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, MANY OF , AS SEXUAL BEGS, OUR SEXUALY WAS FLUID," HE SAID. JJI RAVULO HAS WORKED WH THE NRL FOR MORE THAN A THE TN AND WELLBEG SECTOR. CRED: THE UNIVERSY OF SYDNEY"THE IA THAT WE CREATE TENSN AROUND OUR SEXUALY IS SOMETHG THAT I THK WTERN SOCIETY HAS PLACED ON ."ONCE WE ENABLE PEOPLE TO FEEL SAFE FOR THEIR CULTURAL DIVERSY AND S DIFFERENC THE SPAC, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GOG TO SEE A LOT OF CHANGE AND BETTER ATTUS TOWARDS CLN." 'THE BOYS ARE NOT THERE TO HURT ANYBODY'SAMOAN PASTOR MAFI MATA'AFA SAID THAT THE PLAYERS HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY NMNED AS BEG HOMOPHOBIC BUT THEIR PLEX RELIG AND CULTURAL NNECTN WASN'T NSIRED BEFORE THE JERSEY WAS LNCHED. THE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OF THE PLAYERS ARE NOT JT TURNG UP TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY. THIS IS THEM.MAFI MATA'AFA"THE BOYS ARE NOT THERE TO HURT ANYBODY. THEY ARE JT THERE TO SAY TO THEIR CLUB, 'WE HAVE A BELIEF. WE HAVE A VIEW. AND WE WANT TO BE LISTENED TO,'" HE SAID. MR MATA'AFA SAID HE MEND THE PLAYERS FOR FENDG THEIR BELIEFS, SPE THE "ENORMO" BACKLASH THEY KNEW THEY WOULD RECEIVE, AS WELL AS THE PSYCHOLOGIL IMPACT N HAVE ON THEM. "I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A VERY HARSH NSEQUENCE ON THE YOUNG BOYS ... THIS N BE VERY DANGERO TO SOME OF THEM." MAFI MATA'AFA IS A SAMOAN PASTOR BASED SYDNEY'S WT, WHO HAS MEND THE SEVEN PLAYERS FOR MAKG A CISN LE WH THEIR VALU. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / FELICY DAVEY"THE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OF THE PLAYERS ARE NOT JT TURNG UP TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY. THIS IS THEM. AND TO TELL SOMEONE TO CHANGE YOU JT BY MAKG THEM, AFTER AN ANNOUNCEMENT - 'S VERY POOR."PROFSOR RAVULO SAID RELIG EEDOMS "N'T EXIST WH A VACUUM", EXPLAG THAT THE TERSECTNS OF CULTURE AND GENR MT -EXIST THE NVERSATN FOR TO CREATE AN ACCEPTG CULTURE THE NRL. 'IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE E TO THIS'TRANS SAMOAN WOMAN AND -SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATNAL LBIAN GAY ASSOCIATN (ILGA) WORLD, TUISA YMANIA BROWN SAID THE NTROVERSY AROUND THE JERSEYS HAS "TOTALLY TARNISHED" THE SIGNIFINCE OF LGBTIQ+ CLIVY. SHE SAID THERE WAS A "TOTAL LACK OF LEARSHIP" THE MANAGEMENT THAT LED TO DISASTRO NSEQUENC FOR BOTH THE PASIFIKA AND LGBTIQ+ MUNI SHE IS A STRONG PART OF. "IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE E TO THIS," MS BROWN SAID. TUISA YMANIA BROWN IS A SAMOAN TRANS LEAR FOR THE LGBTIQ+ AND PASIFIKA MUNI. SOURCE: SBS NEWS / FELICY DAVEY"THE APPETE FOR THE ATRALIAN PEOPLE IS THEY WANT CLIVY. THEY WANT TO SUPPORT LGBT PEOPLE. THEY WANT THAT FOR . BUT SPORTS S, THEY NEED TO DO THEIR PART."DIVERSY COUNCIL OF ATRALIA CEO LISA ANNE SAID IF THE CLUB SPOKE WH THE PLAYG GROUP BEFORE WAS "SPNG" ONTO THEM, THIS DRAMA ULD HAVE BEEN AVOID."I THK THAT A RPONSIBLE ANISATN WOULD TRY TO HAVE A DISCSN WH EACH DIVIDUAL TO TRY TO UNRSTAND WHAT THEIR NCERNS ARE," SHE SAID. MS BROWN LLED OUT THE NRL, MANLY'S CLUB MANAGEMENT AND ALL SPORTS S TO LEARN OM THIS LSON, "LIFT YOUR GAME" AND FOR THE "LEARS TO ACT LIKE THE ADULTS, S DOWN AND FIX THIS". READ MORETHE ATRALIAN ATHLET CHAMPNG LGBTIQ+ PRI SPORTWH ALMOST HALF OF PLAYERS THE NRL PRISG PASIFIKA AND MAORI HERAGE, AN IMPORTANT STEP IS TO BRG PASIFIKA MUNY LEARS TO THE TABLE TO AVOID ANYONE BEG EXCLUD BOTH ON AND OFF THE FIELD, SHE SAID."AND ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ALL WANT, AS ATRALIANS WHO PLAY SPORTS AND WHO LOVE AND FOLLOW SPORT? ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ALL WANT TO BE TREATED THE SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE? NOBODY WANTS TO BE EXCLUD AND [TOLD], 'AH, YOU GOTTA S THIS ONE OUT.'" IS NRL READY FOR A PRI ROUND?ATRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE COMMISSN CHAIR PETER V'LANDYS HAS KEPT THE OPTN OPEN FOR A PRI ROUND TO BE LNCHED AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR BUT THE MANLY JERSEY SAGA HAS RAISED QUTNS ABOUT WHETHER WILL BE POSSIBLE. MR MATA'AFI ULDN'T BE SURE IF PRR NSULTATN WOULD CHANGE ALL PLAYERS' VIEWS TO PARTICIPATE A PRI ROUND, BUT HE KNEW A NVERSATN ULD CERTALY HELP. "IT'S IMPORTANT TO S DOWN AND TALK. IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALLOW THEM TO EXPRS WHAT THEY BELIEVE, AND THEN E TO SOME SORT OF RMED NCLN SOMEWHERE OF WHAT TO DO." MS ANSE BELIEVED THAT WHEN PEOPLE GET THE NVERSATN ROLLG, ALL OPTNS REMA ON THE TABLE. "IT'S POSSIBLE THAT WH SOME TN SOME PEOPLE WOULD BE BROUGHT ALONG THE JOURNEY." ADDNAL REPORTG BY TOM CATI. SHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 28 JULY 2022 5:35PMUPDATED 28 JULY 2022 6:15PMBY RAYANE TAMER, FELICY DAVEYSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

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(AAP: Dan Himbrechts and Jam Gourley)Ian Roberts, a Manly legend and the first NRL player to e out openly as gay 1995, praised the "thenticy and scery" of Hasler and Cherry-Evans's said was "wonrful" the club would still wear the pri jersey this week and that he had been nsulted about the plan several weeks ago. " Ian Roberts was the first openly gay player the NRL. "It has been reported the players ncerned won't be attendg the match for fear of vlent NRL's cln policy, perhaps more than any other sport, lists the many aspects and labels that n divi muni:"The NRL is mted to beg an clive anisatn that is open to all members of the Atralian muny regardls of age, race, relign, lour, scent, natnaly, ethnic orig, genr, sexualy, maral stat, stat as a parent, disabily or HIV/AIDS stat or other attribut that n lead to people feelg exclud or isolated" league is the sport, and Manly is the club, where Atralia's first profsnal male footballer me out as a gay man back 1995.

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Ian Roberts was the first openly gay player the NRL when he me out 1995. Acrdg to reports, the seven players had hoped they uld wear Manly's tradnal jersey wh whe pipg, but the NRL said they would not allow players to take to the field an alternative rponse to the week, Ian Roberts, a Manly Sea Eagl legend and the first player to e out as gay 1995, said he would be the crowd for the game to see the pri jerseys play. As an olr gay man, this isn't unfaiar.

"Watch how men The Netherlands stood up to homophobia. He wasn't the first gay man to play gby league, I will give you the big tip.

MANLY SEA EAGL PRI JERSEY: GAY CLUB LEGEND IAN ROBERTS SAYS DISPUTE IS 'SAD AND UNFORTABLE'

Wi World of Sports' Matt Bungard wrote on Twter: "I don't want to hear one sgle thg about 'rpectg other people's opns' or g relign as a ctch to hi behd while beg homophobic. "Kyle and Jackie O's newsrear Brooklyn Ross, who is gay, said: "This is jt sayg the people exist and we support you guys. homophobia and bigotry is so ep rooted stralian mens sport.

"Cherry-Evans nfirmed the gay pri jerseys will be gog ahead this Thursday night. Usg relig reasons to blatantly mask homophobia is very mon the public fom. It tells them that gay people are not wele sport.

LGBTQIA+ reprentatn men's sportAlthough roughly one 25 Atralians intify as part of the LGBTQIA+ muny, there are currently no openly gay male players the NRL, a group that totals more than 500 people across 17 is not unique to gby league: Atralia's top five domtic men's petns – the AFL, NRL, Big Bash, A-League Men and NBL – jt one active player, Josh Cavallo of Alai Uned, is openly trend extends to men's sports leagu elsewhere the world, wh only a handful of current athlet such as Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Rairs and Le Prokop of the Nashville Predators open about their sexuali. They stem om cultur of hyper-masculy sport, the normalisatn of genr rol, the equent e of homophobic and sexist language as part of locker-room banter and abe, and the relatnship between sport, power, and vlence; thgs that affect all levels of the pyramid and rult a signifint drop-out rate of LGBTQIA+ men and boys om arth of reprentatn explas why former Manly player Ian Roberts – the first and currently only male NRL player to e out durg their reer – has been the loust LGBTQIA+ voice this past week, spe the fact he retired more than two s NRL have bee more active the LGBTQIA+ space recent years, cludg enterg a float to Mardi Gras, beg a participant the Pri In Sport Inx, updatg their Incln Framework to reflect var sexuali and genr inti, and offerg tn ssns for ele and muny players around batg homophobia. Incln starts om whAt the heart of the problem is the disnnect between public statements of cln and the work that is done behd the scen to make cln part of an anisatn's everyday Erik Denison, the head rearcher of the Sport Incln Project at Monash Universy and lead thor of Out On The Fields, the first and largt ternatnal study on homophobia sports, the first warng-sign that Manly was foced more on optics than on genue cultural change was that the club had not nsulted s own players the lead-up to the release.

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