Pri: Why no gay male GAA player sce Dónal Óg?

Contents:

• 14 GAY SPORTG STARS WHO TOOK THE CISN TO GO PUBLIC
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• GAY THE GAA - ONE MAN'S STORY
• PNEERS PROMOTG THE FULL CLN OF GAY PEOPLE SPORT STILL A RELATIVE RARY
• PRI: WHY NO GAY MALE GAA PLAYER SCE DóNAL ÓG?
• ELE MALE GAA PLAYER COMG OUT AS GAY WOULD BE 'PROGRSIVE' MOVE
• REFEREE DAVID GOUGH ADMS 'S 'SAD' MORE MALE GAA PLAYERS HAVEN'T E OUT AS GAY
• ANOTHER CHANCE TO READ: ‘BEG GAY THE GAA’
• DONAL OG CACK'S RELATNSHIP WH BOYIEND NATHAN ADAMS, G OUT AS GAY AND CORK HURLG REER
• NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS

14 GAY SPORTG STARS WHO TOOK THE CISN TO GO PUBLIC

Ne-time All-Ireland wner Valerie Mulhy will reveal how she alt wh her sexualy Donal Óg Cack's documentary to be aired next Cork footballer has bee the first high-profile female GAA star to e out publicly and do so to help others and to make other women, who are a siar suatn, to feel more fortable wh who they Óg Cack, the first openly gay GAA sports star, looks at attus towards homosexualy at home and abroad his documentary Comg Out Of The Curve which will be aired on Monday night on RTE, We take a look at other gay sports stars who took the cisn to go Og Cack (hurlg)The much-rated Rebel star is one of the greatt goalkeepers the game of hurlg has ever seen. He beme the first ele Irish sportsman to reveal he was gay his tobgraphy, 'Come What May', released last year.

"Whatever you may feel about me or who I am, I've always been at peace wh , " he Cack (hurlg)The Cloyne hurler who last year bravely spoke out about his battle wh prsn joed his brother Donal Og Cack revealg that he is gay last year. He ntu to highlight mental health Stoney (football)England women's football pta said sh cid to speak publicly about beg gay after the posive reactn to diver Tom Daley sayg he was a relatnship wh a man. Stoney, who has 116 ps for England, is now the most high-profile active gay footballer Hzlsperger (football)The 31-year-old, pped more than 50 tim for Germany, announced he was gay last year, the first high-profile German player to do so and the first to have played regularly the English Premier League.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

The former Aston Villa midfielr was advised by iends to keep his sexualy quiet but was astound by the posive reactn to his Fashanu (football)Bra's first black footballer to mand a £1ln transfer fee was also the first top-flight player to publicly adm his homosexualy. After admtg he was gay, Fashanu stggled to reigne an already stutterg reer, and retired 1997, blamg his downfall on prejudice the English game. Louganis' tobgraphy, which spent five weeks at number one on the New York Tim bt-seller list on s release 1995, tailed his rise to global promence and subsequent cisn to e out as a homosexual livg wh HIV.

Marta Navratilova (tennis)The Czech-born ne-time Wimbledon champn me out publicly as gay 1981, a short time after she was granted US cizenship. "Prr to beg a [US] cizen, I uldn't speak my md about beg gay, " she said.

"John Amaechi (basketball)The Amerin-born Bron was the first NBA player to openly adm to beg gay 2007.

GAY THE GAA - ONE MAN'S STORY

"Gareth Thomas (gby unn)Thomas, who was Wal' most-pped player and a former Brish and Irish Lns pta, publicly announced he was gay December 2009 at the age of 35.

"Steven Davi (cricket)The England and Surrey wicketkeeper beme the first active profsnal cricketer to openly adm to beg gay Febary 2011.

" Davi, now 27, has played eight one-day ternatnals and five Twenty20 ternatnals for Rogers (soccer)Former Leeds wger and Uned Stat ternatnal Rogers revealed he was gay Febary 2013 and at the same time announced his retirement om football at the age of 25. "Nila Adams (boxg)Olympic boxg gold medallist Nila Adams topped the Inpennt's annual 'Pk List' poll of fluential lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people November moreRead more: Read moreRead more:. Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.

PNEERS PROMOTG THE FULL CLN OF GAY PEOPLE SPORT STILL A RELATIVE RARY

"He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay. In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay! Natnal Hockey League prospect Le Prokop me out as gay July, the first active player the league to e out.

"I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay, " he wrote a heartfelt msage on social media.

PRI: WHY NO GAY MALE GAA PLAYER SCE DóNAL ÓG?

The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract. The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. "He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay.

ELE MALE GAA PLAYER COMG OUT AS GAY WOULD BE 'PROGRSIVE' MOVE

Hiltz had prevly e out as gay while llege and has been a visible and affirmg prence for gay athlet the past. Corey Walsh, the 27-year-old pro BMX rir and Vans spokperson, said he isn't normally the type of person to "let people " on his personal life, but felt was important to e out as gay a March Instagram post bee "there are a lot of people still stgglg wh the same suatns" and he "jt wanted to let people know that they are not alone.

Champn long track speedskater Conor McDermott-Mostowy never hid beg gay om his fay, iends, and fellow athlet, but he also wasn't one to rate his locker wh rabow Pri flags eher.

REFEREE DAVID GOUGH ADMS 'S 'SAD' MORE MALE GAA PLAYERS HAVEN'T E OUT AS GAY

He ially feared negative stereotyp about gay male athlet but threw those ncerns asi after his two-tle performance at the U. As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards. Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them.

ANOTHER CHANCE TO READ: ‘BEG GAY THE GAA’

Atralian striker Andy Brennan me out as gay 2019, beg the first out gay Atralian male footballer. He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w. His early clubs knew he was gay, and he me out durg his reer, beg the first pro footballer to do so.

In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley. He later me out as gay and has sce spoken out about the difficulti queer players face.

DONAL OG CACK'S RELATNSHIP WH BOYIEND NATHAN ADAMS, G OUT AS GAY AND CORK HURLG REER

The South Ain footballer beme Ai's first out, gay male footballer when he me out 2015.

Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year.

Later, he revealed he qu the sport as a rult of homophobia he faced when he me out. The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) muny remas a hot topic the Uned Stat.

NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS

The LGBT movement emerged as early as the 1870s, but homosexual rights groups didn't appear until after World War II September 1945.