Frz says openly gay player would be accepted on ATP Tour – FBC News

Contents:

• HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN’S PROFSNAL TENNIS?
• FRZ SAYS OPENLY GAY PLAYER WOULD BE ACCEPTED ON ATP TOUR SHARE
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
• "IF THERE'S A GAY PLAYER THE LOCKER ROOM, NOTHG HAPPENS" - DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN, THE LATT STAR TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT

HOW MANY OPENLY GAY MLB PLAYERS HAVE BEEN THERE? HONORG LGBTQ INS OF BASEBALL ON PRI NIGHT

As the world be more progrsive, so do the baseball muny wh clubs, fans, and teammat embracg openly gay MLB players. As the MLB ntu embracg the LGBTQ muny, the players have also taken steps towards clivens wh Chigo Whe Sox pcher, Anrson Comás, g out as openly gay.

The 23-year-old pcher om the Domin Republic hop the revelatn of his sexualy enurag other gay players to e out.

Although Anrson Comás is only the send openly gay MLB player to e out while actively wh an anizatn, the Chigo Whe Sox, he is far om the first openly gay player to play profsnal baseball.

GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

"Anrson Comás beme the send known player to e out as gay while actively affiliated wh an MLB anizatn. Former Los Angel Dodgers outfielr Glenn Burke was the first MLB player to e out as gay, however, he did so followg his retirement.

After retirg he embraced his sexualy, beg the first openly gay MLB player.

"They n't ever say now that a gay man n't play the majors, bee I'm a gay man and I ma .

WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN’S PROFSNAL TENNIS?

Billy Bean ntu to fight for the rights and cln of openly gay players the MLB. The former Detro Tigers outfielr me out as gay 1999, beg the send former MLB player to do so, followg the footsteps of Glenn Burke. An advote for the cln of homosexualy baseball, Bean was named as the MLB's first "Ambassador for Incln".

He also helped David Denson, who beme the first openly gay mor league player signed to an MLB anizatn. "Former Player of The Day - Billy Bean - Outfielr, #Padr #Tigers #Dodgers #PlayerOfTheDay" - @GayBaseballFanIt has been a long road, but thanks to pneers such as Glenn Burke, Billy Bean, David Denson, and Anrson Comás, baseball is beg a more welg place for everyone. The number doubl the 40 openly gay, lbian and bisexual women who peted of the women are om North and South Ameri, Europe, Atralia and New Zealand, Outsports reported.

Meanwhile, the 2022 Men’s World Cup was set to be hosted Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison. The associatn’s cisn prompted some fans and athlet — cludg the first openly gay major league soccer player — to speak out.

FRZ SAYS OPENLY GAY PLAYER WOULD BE ACCEPTED ON ATP TOUR SHARE

“If actns speak lour than words, then the msage FIFA sends to gay athlet is pafully clear.

Not only don’t they have our backs, our liv don’t matter, ” Robbie Rogers, one of the first openly gay major league soccer players, said a 2015 opn article for USA Today after FIFA announced the untri that would host the upg tournaments. “So for any gay soccer player who has hop of playg for the U. A giant mural of England's first openly gay footballer has been unveiled on the si of a Fashanu remas the only male profsnal player to nfirm he was homosexual - amid fears he would be "outed" by a natnal newspaper 1990 - and was ducted to the footballg Hall of Fame spe now beg seen as an spiratn the fight agast homophobia and discrimatn sport, the proud Canary took his own life 1998 - wrg his suici note that beg gay and a personaly was "so hard" former Norwich Cy striker, who beme the UK's first black £1m player when he was sold to Nottgham Fort, ntu to be seen as a legend at the Norfolk Champnship "wonr strike" agast Liverpool at Carrow Road 1980 went on to w Match of the Day's goal of the season now his face has taken pri of place on the si of a Canari supporters pub.

A mural of former Norwich Cy player Jt Fashanu, England's first openly gay footballer, has appeared on the Fat Cat and Canary. Great player, sred an amazg goal, the first £1m black player, me out as gay, " he said.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

There was a lot of homophobia the prs and media and he was hound for the fact that he me out as beg gay.

That's why I only play gay chs.

Multiple female ach the NFL — cludg 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, who beme the league’s first openly gay ach 2017 — have e out recent years. And that’s the fact that there has never been the prence of an openly gay male tennis player on the profsnal tour. There are no openly gay or bisexual men that pete profsnally on the Men’s ATP Tour.

THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY

We have vered other openly gay tennis players the past but have not seen them on the profsnal circu (EXCLUSIVE: Lendale Johnson on Beg The First Openly Gay Tennis Player & More). Gay players existed at other levels and then there were those that would e out after they retired, but to have an active top-tier player your sport e out as gay, shows that there is forward progrsn of the sport as a whole workg to accept LGBTQ players.

While the world is seeg male athlet other sports pete as openly gay athlet at the top levels, as jt mentned, vered weekly on our televisns and on the ont page of the sports pag, tennis seems to turn a bld eye when to havg healthy nversatns surroundg the LGBTQIA muny, visibily, and top-tier petn. Unlike the women’s tour (WTA), where there are tennis giants like the legendary Billie Jean Kg and Marta Navratilova who are openly gay, the men’s tour seems as if they aren’t acceptg of any male player who isn’t an alpha male warrr who gnts aggrsively and beats his cht whenever they h a wner.

And there has been homophobic language slurred both on and off urts by male athlet. Most recently Italian tennis star Fab Fogni yelled a homophobic slur out of “tratn” at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Brian Vahaly (an Amerin retired profsnal tennis player) me out as gay 2017, 10 years after officially retirg om the sport.

"IF THERE'S A GAY PLAYER THE LOCKER ROOM, NOTHG HAPPENS" - DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN, THE LATT STAR TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT

64, who peted profsnally for 6 years, said that gay players may feel disuraged om beg open about their sexualy bee of “sponsors, fans, fay and iendships. Vahaly told the Thomson Rters Foundatn that “ was impossible to go a week” whout hearg homophobic slurs when he played on the ATP tour.

“When I was petg the mid-2000s, I would not scribe tennis as a very welg environment for gay players, ” he said, addg he was hopeful that more gay, male players at the ele level would e out as acceptance grows sport. There are multiple female players, om many different generatns, who are openly gay tennis players. Sce then, seems the WTA tour has advanced wh the tim and adjted the mdset and culture of women’s tennis regards to the gay muny.

As a gay male who is a major tennis fan, I hope that men’s profsnal tennis ntu to uphold the prtige and tradns of tennis… but work to make clive of all sexuali. Source: Gay Tim.