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Contents:

• “I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
• RUMOUR A COLLGWOOD PLAYER IS TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AFL PLAYER?
• RUMOUR A COLLGWOOD PLAYER IS TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AFL PLAYER?
• WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• RUMOUR A COLLGWOOD PLAYER IS TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AFL PLAYER?
• MELBOURNE GAY DISTRICT: COLLGWOOD
• OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYERS WOULD BE WELED THE AFL: SELWOOD
• THE BEST COLLGWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLLGWOOD
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND NDNG ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
• RUMOUR A COLLGWOOD PLAYER IS TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AFL PLAYER?
• COLLGWOOD PLAYER TO LEAVE FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY JOKE

“I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…

Rumour: A Collgwood player is to bee the first openly gay AFL player. Jack Vidgen, one of the stars on Atralia’s I’m A Celebry… Get Me Out Of Here!, has revealed that he knows 10 or 12 gay Atralian Football League players, reports.

Vidgen, who ma a name for himself on Atralia’s Got Talent, was talkg about homosexualy sport wh former AFL stars Travis Vare and Robert “Dipper” DiPerdomeni. “I probably know about 10 or 12 footy players, I’d never say their name, that are gay but they wouldn’t e out, ” Vidgen said.

RUMOUR A COLLGWOOD PLAYER IS TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AFL PLAYER?

There are so many different typ of sexual orientatn om heterosexual through to asexual, homosexual, bisexual and more. 2% of the adult populatn Atralia intified as homosexual or bisexual.

RUMOUR A COLLGWOOD PLAYER IS TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AFL PLAYER?

While beg the face of a gay movement might sound good theory, when ’s your face and private life splashed through the media, ’s a lot to take .

WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?

A gay AFL player might prefer to stay out of the spotlight to avoid placg their reer the media’s hand.

In 2019, the fullback ma an anti-gay ment on social media (not for the first time), statg that gays will go to hell.

While Rugby Atralia acted the right manner and termated his posn, shows we have a long way to e before beg gay is accepted.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

If beg gay don’t affect their performance (which clearly don’t), then why is somethg they should have to brg up the first place?

While would be nice to live a world where people don’t bat an eyelid about beg gay, we’re not que there yet. While we have e a long way when to LGBT rights, we still have a long way to go towards equaly and breakg down barriers and there’s no way of predictg the effect of g out gay.

RUMOUR A COLLGWOOD PLAYER IS TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AFL PLAYER?

6) Homophobic slurs.

MELBOURNE GAY DISTRICT: COLLGWOOD

The biggt ncern for many gay athlet is how their teammat will see them. Many gay people fd hard enough g out to their immediate fay.

OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYERS WOULD BE WELED THE AFL: SELWOOD

Breakg through gay stereotyp. If you want to ppot another reason that gay athlet are proment the media, ’s thanks to the gay stereotyp that are monplace society.

THE BEST COLLGWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLLGWOOD

We have a huge anti-gay history behd , which is still very proment many different religns. There’s the belief that gay men are weaker than straight men.

“Gay is soft”. “Gay is weak”. “Gay isn’t manly”.

It’s a giant barrier standg the way for many of our gay athlet. In 2019, Andy Brennan beme the first Atralian profsnal male footballer to e out as gay while still playg.

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

“I’m gay, ” he wrote  an say published by Profsnal Footballers Atralia, the players’ unn. Acrdg to Jack Vidgen, a star on Atralia’s “I’m A Celebry… Get Me Out Of Here”, he personally knows at least 10 or 12 AFL players who are gay.

SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME

Support for gay AFL players. This support needs to e om ach, managers, fans, teammat, and society as a whole, but orr to get there, we need to end the discrimatn, excln, and stereotyp, so that beg gay be a non-issue. Once beg gay is no longer an issue, we will see more and more players g out.

It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

RUMOUR A COLLGWOOD PLAYER IS TO BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY AFL PLAYER?

Unlike other ci the world like Madrid or San Francis, Melbourne do not have a signated gay area. Instead, a seri of gay bars, gay clubs, and gay snas populate different parts other ci the world like Madrid or San Francis, Melbourne do not have a signated gay area.

COLLGWOOD PLAYER TO LEAVE FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY JOKE

Instead, a seri of gay bars, gay clubs, and gay snas populate different parts of the cy. To the north of Melbourne, Collgwood is arguably the cy’s ma gayborhood, wh the Smh Street and neighborg streets offerg plenty of LGBTQ life.

Start your eveng at popular Melbourne gay bar, Sircu, then fish thgs up on the crowd - but fun - dancefloor at nearby gay club, The Peel.

You n expect pop tun here, and many lol gay boys dancg until the wee hours of the morng. As the name would suggt, this club is loted on Peel Street, and on the same stretch you will fd one of the bt Melbourne gay cisg venu, Club80.