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• “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.

There are so many different typ of sexual orientatn om heterosexual through to asexual, homosexual, bisexual and more.

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

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 . 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.

WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?

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

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.

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

6) Homophobic slurs. 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.

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.

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.

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

“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. “I’m gay, ” he wrote  an say published by Profsnal Footballers Atralia, the players’ unn.

MELBOURNE GAY DISTRICT: COLLGWOOD

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.

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.

OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYERS WOULD BE WELED THE AFL: SELWOOD

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. Unlike other ci the world like Madrid or San Francis, Melbourne do not have a signated gay area.

THE BEST COLLGWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLLGWOOD

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. Instead, a seri of gay bars, gay clubs, and gay snas populate different parts of the cy.

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

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. This is a gay sna and fetish club for the gay, bi, and cur men of the cy. Head south of the river, and you’ll reach Melbourne’s send gayborhood, Prahran.

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

This is the cy’s origal gay area, and while the number of gay bars and gay clubs may have been lost to other LGBTQ areas like Collgwood and the CBD, the gay spir of Prahran still burns bright. The majory of actn n be found on Commercial Road, while some gay cisg venu and snas are loted on the neighborg more. Geelong pta Joel Selwood says he would be “proud” to see a male AFL player e out as gay, clarg there is now a “safety blanket” place terms of club the Cats lnched their specially signed jumper for Friday night’s Pri Round AFLW clash wh Collgwood at GMHBA Stadium, Selwood said any openly gay male player would be weled.

”The AFL is yet to have a male openly gay or bisexual player, but the AFLW has led the way celebratg change.

”What is seen as a more acceptg AFL men’s culture after Alai Uned A-League player Josh Cavallo revealed late last year he was gay, beg the first man top-tier football worldwi to do so. Football Atralia has issued Melbourne Victory wh a show e notice after Cavallo said he received homophobic abe om the club’s supporters durg an A-League clash. Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen is now the first openly gay male ach the NFL.

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

(Jam Gilbert/Getty Imag)Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength ach Kev Maxen me out publicly as gay Thursday, which mak him the first known openly gay male ach the NFL and all of Amerin men’s profsnal joed the Jaguars’ strength and ndng staff last season.

”Maxen is the latt the NFL to e out publicly as gay. Tampa Bay Bucneers fensive end Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player when he me out 2021, when he was wh the Las Vegas Rairs. Former San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers ma history as both the first woman and first openly gay ach a Super Bowl was a lebacker at Wtern Connecticut State, a Divisn III program.

SAM GILBERT, gay in. It might not be a scriptor the St Kilda fenr ever expected, but, acrdg to Jason Ball (Atralian Football's first openly gay male player), the scriptn is que, a 28-year-old centre half-back for Victorian untry club Yarra Glen, explaed how highly Gilbert is thought of by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and qutng (LGBTIQ) muny. "He's bee a gay in a way, " Ball said of the veteran Sats fenr.

COLLGWOOD PLAYER TO LEAVE FOLLOWG ANTI-GAY JOKE

"It sent a msage to other people the sportg world that sayg no to homophobia don't make you ls of a man. "I me to unrstand a lot of the homophobic language and behavur wasn't g om a place of hatred towards me or gay people, but rather jt ignorance and not knowg the impact on me, " Ball said.