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• ARSENAL’S HECTOR BELLER THE VICTIM OF HOMOPHOBIC SLURS AND SAYS OPENLY GAY PLAYER IS IMPOSSIBLE PREMIER LEAGUE
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• 5 RUMORED GAY EPL PLAYERS: 4 ANNOUNCED THEIR HOMOSEXUALITY, #5 PLAYED FOR ARSENAL, #1 A NIGERIAN
• A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE
• ARSENAL’S HéCTOR BELLERíN TALKS GAY PLAYERS FOOTBALL: “I DON’T KNOW IF FOOTBALL IS READY FOR THAT YET”
• ARSENAL LEADS THE WAY BY SENDG A MSAGE OF SUPPORT TO FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL PLAYER
• ENGLAND EURO 2022 HERO BETH MEAD SAYS BEG GAY 'IS MORE THE NORM' WOMEN'S FOOTBALL

ARSENAL’S HECTOR BELLER THE VICTIM OF HOMOPHOBIC SLURS AND SAYS OPENLY GAY PLAYER IS IMPOSSIBLE PREMIER LEAGUE

Two Premier League players are a uple and have e out as gay to their teammat, but not yet, reports suggt the Premier League footballers qutn uld e out a documentary currently productn wh Channel follows Gary Leker recently claimg he was aware of two Premier League players who were thkg of g out as gay soon.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

Gay Gooners exists to provi a social group for LGBT+ Arsenal fans, alli and their iends to meet up, provi a safe and welg space, and mpaign to kick homophobia, biphobia and transphobia out of football.

Gay Gooners holds meet-ups near Emirat Stadium before home fixtur, group trips to away gam and anis regular social events. Gay Gooners’ patron and lifelong Arsenal supporter, edian Matt Lus says he is “immensely proud of and grateful to the club” for s support for the group and how “young gay fans now feel clud by the club a way my generatn never uld”. The club works directly wh members of the Gay Gooners to tackle anti-LGBT+ discrimatn football by vg members to take part cln trag for staff.

So, here we gonna talk about some of the bravt of all begs; as we know, Like other sports, homophobia is still prevalent baseball. The prsure toward acceptg pri players baseball may be why homosexual players who e out as gay before or after retirement have a short reer. Moreover, Santan ma headl after g out as gay ont of his mother and teammat while filmg This Is Life, a TLC documentary 2017.

5 RUMORED GAY EPL PLAYERS: 4 ANNOUNCED THEIR HOMOSEXUALITY, #5 PLAYED FOR ARSENAL, #1 A NIGERIAN

Later, terviewg wh SB natn outsports, he mentns hearg anti-gay slurs by teammat the locker room or gam felt like havg a knife the heart.

Moreover, he later beme the first major league affiliated player and send active profsnal baseball player to e out as gay publicly. Sce 2016, no homophobic slur has been chanted for the first time, and looks like MLB is dog s bt to change the perspective toward homosexual players. A few years ago two England ternatnal footballers had to e out and clear the mors about them beg gay, first name was Ashley Cole and the later one is Le Shaw who plays for Manchter UnedThe history of gay footballers dat back to early 90’s although no top flight footballers has e out openly as gay their playg reer and thats largely down to the fear of managements, losg sponsors and the fear of fans first openly admted se of footballer beg gay dat back to 1990 when Jt Fashanu announced his homosexualy, which did not go too well for his reer and he ultimately took his own life 8 years later 1998.

Jt Fashanu:Public Admissn: YESJt Fashanu was the still the only footballer to have e out openly as gay and that was way back 1990, he played for Norwich, Nottgham Fort and Southampton along wh 15 other clubs england and stralia.

A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE

2) Thomas Hzlsperger:Public Admissn: YESKnown as “The hammer” by the Villa fans for havg a adly left foot, German Internatnal Thomas Hzlsperger me out as gay January 2014 after he retired om profsnal football at the age of is currently the Sportg director at German club Stuttgart3) Liam DavisPublic Admissn: YSemi Profsnal Football Liam Davis played lower leagu of english football and he me out openly as gay 2010 but suffered massive abe om the started his reer wh ventry cy.

Liam Davis spoke wh BBC Sports on the stggl of beg openly footballer english football the abe of fans and why closet gay footballers are aaid to e out. Rodgers announced his homosexualy 2012 and soon retired om he has reversed his cisn and now currently playg wh amerin si LA Galaxy. Another top player who played for two of the biggt London clubs premier league, Arsenal and Tottenham Sol Campbell was abed throughout his reer for beg a “closet homosexual” but he has nied the allegatns for so long.

ARSENAL’S HéCTOR BELLERíN TALKS GAY PLAYERS FOOTBALL: “I DON’T KNOW IF FOOTBALL IS READY FOR THAT YET”

In a recently terview Campbell rells that sports giants “Puma” were lookg to endorse the very first openly gay footballer and they mistakenly ntact him but the al did not went through as he told them that he is not also revealed why mors started circulatg about him beg homosexual, one of the big one was that he did not brg his girliends to match or special team dners which lead to stori about him. Acrdg to rearch fdgs, football supporters would like to see homophobia elimated, believe the FA is not dog enough to addrs the issue, and would feel at ease if a member of their team me out as gay.

Homosexual male players football historyHere is a list of the profsnal male footballers who me out public and announced their homosexualy. Uned and Mnota Uned FC Major League Soccer, and for Richmond Kickers and Hartford Athletic the Uned Football me out as gay June 2018, makg him the only out man any of the big five Amerin sports leagu or any top-divisn profsnal men's natnal soccer, 26, shared the news on Twter, notg he had been openly gay to his iends and fay for years, but never on such a large platform.

ARSENAL LEADS THE WAY BY SENDG A MSAGE OF SUPPORT TO FIRST OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL PLAYER

It's an important night for me — I'll be announcg that I am an openly gay player Major League Soccer, ' he wrote on Twter. 'Mart's announcement ma him one of only two openly gay players Major League Soccer - the other beg Robbie Rogers, who retired shortly after his announcement but me back to play Tto was the first player to e out as a gay man, makg the announcement shortly after his retirement said his cisn to e out on an ternatnal stage was ma 'much easier' by the 'kdns and acceptance' om his fellow players. He released a book named “Comg Out to Play” announced his retirement and sexualy wh a 408-word post on his personal blog, which Rogers wrote, "I'm a soccer player, I'm Christian, and I'm gay.

Daily Mail has scribed Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the send active profsnal football player to e out, after English footballer Jt Fashanu 1990.

He won the seventh season of Let's Dance, beg the first openly gay person to w this Hysén said: 'I am a footballer and gay.

ENGLAND EURO 2022 HERO BETH MEAD SAYS BEG GAY 'IS MORE THE NORM' WOMEN'S FOOTBALL

At the Stockholm Pri, he livered a speech nouncg sports homophobia and laid to rt his 2001 airport stated that, "I know that many LGBT people have been the victims of asslts and hate crim. Cint had been blown out of proportn the orr to fally flh the Frankfurt Airport punch down the toilet: is not the se that I beat up a gay person.

"In the same speech he asked "How easy would be for a sixteen-year-old boy who plays football to e out as gay to his team mat?

"While Germany as a untry has noticeably bee more and more relaxed about homosexualy recent years, he had also noted there was an unhelpful media obssn wh fdg the first gay footballer. All sorts of well-tend but ultimately unhelpful terventns om heterosexual players – who eher oped that gay players would benef om g out or utned agast – did not exactly fill him wh nfince that this was ed the right former ternatnal, who played the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Champnship, matas that he did not have to lie about his sexualy and that teammat eventually stopped askg about his lack of a girliend.

After partg Grimsby Town, Liam went onto play for Selby Town, Brigg Town, Gasborough Try, and most recently Cleethorp Town, who he reprented the 2017 FA Vase Fal at January 2014 Davis bee the UKs hight profile openly gay December 2017, Davis publicly cricized ments ma by FA chairman Greg Clarke that "profsnal players who out themselv as homosexual would be takg a risk. "Davis urged other homosexual soccer players to e out publicly and not fear a 32-year-old has spoken out enuragg male gay footballers not to worry about g out, sharg his own experienc as part of Uefa’s Equal Game mpaign, to foster greater cln and diversy the midfielr admted receivg abe om opponents, but sists football’s attus to homosexualy are creasgly UrbanMarc Urban, born 4 Augt 1971, is a former German football player.

He has spoken publicly about the difficulti that gay footballers’ experience and he is now a spokperson and mpaigner on diversy issu sport and the was sent to a sports boardg school at age 13 and played for the natnal youth teams the 1990s before settlg at send divisn club Rot-Weiss Erfurt.

He is now on the board of You Can Play, an anizatn dited to the fight agast homophobia PterPter liv Balham wh his hband Alan and works as an assistant manager at Boots. He was appoted as a Member of the Orr of the Brish Empire bee of his work batg realized at the age of 10 that he was gay, and alt wh homophobic abe om his schoolmat.

While playg for his lol club, Pter suffered homophobia om other players and was dropped om the first team to the fourth team after one of his teammat found out that he was gay. C., the first gay football club November 2010, he was rmed that he would be appoted an MBE for his work agast homophobia football. It was later announced that he had e out as gay, and that he qu football as a rult of what he scribed as wispread homophobia the football muny.

Berlg's se was ced several tim the upg years, as the nnectn between homophobia and sport was discsed the natnal media now and FashanuJt Soni Fashanu (19 Febary 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for var clubs between 1978 and 1997.

Acrdg to his suici note, fearg he would not get a fair trial bee of his homosexualy, he fled to England where he killed himself London May 1998. While makg my WNBA list and NWSL list, there are about double as many nfirmed straight people as there are nfirmed gay people a league, wh the rt beg unnfirmed eher directn. However, the Premier League, if you aren’t nfirmed gay, you’re probably jt an unknown, bee there were veryyy few nfirmed straight players.

Wh four out gay players on the team, this ranks the middle for gayns, but closer to the top for ter-team romanc, wh Julia Zigtti Olme and Emma Kullberg beg publilly together. Liverpool players Yana Daniels and Jasme Matthews are datg, and the other two out gay players are also public relatnships wh cute uple photos on their stagrams!