Gay cricketers won’t e out until 'stigma' is tackled, boss warned

Contents:

• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED
• YOU WILL BE SHOCKED TO KNOW THE INDIAN CRICKETERS ARE GAYS!
• OPENLY GAY CRICKETERS
• FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY
• 'BRAVE' CRICKETER DAVI REVEALS HE IS GAY
• ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY
• GAY CRICKET STAR ALEX BLACKWELL SAYS SHE’S TIRED OF LBIANS SPORT BEG ‘PROFILED AS PREDATORS’
• ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY

HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY

Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg, 50, played five Tts and 11 one-day ternatnals for the Black Caps between 1994 and 1997 and was known as an timidatg, if nsistent, pace s after his Tt but, Davis publicly revealed his sexualy for the first time, an episo of the documentary seri Scratched: Aotearoa’s Lost Sportg first ternatnal male cricketer to e out publicly was the former England wicketkeeper Steven Davi was durg Davis’s first tour to England 1994 when he started to really disver himself, he told The Spoff, though he had told his mother at an early age he was gay. ”He gused some of his teammat knew he was gay before he told a uple of them 1997 but he was never qutned about . “I certaly wasn’t livg a gay life, wasn’t part of the scene, didn’t have a partner.

There was nothg to tie to, if you know what I mean, ” Davis entered his first gay relatnship when he was 27 years old, while playg for Wellgton, but he was reluctant to appear public as a uple.

When an offer of a ntract me om Auckland, Davis saw an opportuny to move away om the cy he did not felt fortable beg out the uple ma the move to Auckland, Davis told his new team’s manager he was gay, which was passed on to his team members and “didn’t seem to be that big an issue” is now on a new journey – one that exists tensn wh his sexualy.

GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED

Photograph: supplied by Heath DavisAn ternatnal study on homophobia sport, released May, revealed that New Zealand gay and bisexual men were the most likely to keep their sexualy secret both youth and adult sports, wh many sayg they feared bullyg om teammat and discrimatn om ach and than half of all participants believed team sport is more homophobic than the rt of New Zealand society, while gay men were much more likely to believe this (69%) than anyone Wellgton Firebirds player, Stephen Mather, said Davis told him about his sexualy 1997, when there were no other outwardly gay men playg first class cricket at that time.

”Homophobic attus sport still very much exist, said Malee Chapman, The Spoff’s edor and producer of the documentary seri.

Three s after his Tt but, Heath Davis has bee the first male New Zealand ternatnal cricketer to e out as pots:Heath Davis played five Tts and 11 one day ternatnals for the Black CapsHe said his club teammat Auckland were aware that he was gayDavis is one of very few men's cricketers to e out, followg English wicketkeeper Steven Davi 2011Davis played five Tts and 11 One Day Internatnals (ODIs) for the Black Caps, and had a lengthy first-class reer domtic cricket as a fiery pace bowler.

YOU WILL BE SHOCKED TO KNOW THE INDIAN CRICKETERS ARE GAYS!

"Everyone Auckland knew I was gay, the team, but didn't seem to be that big an issue, " he said. Gee Cecil Iv (1 October 1867 Germany – 4 June 1950) was an English poet, wrer, penal reformer and early homosexual law reform mpaigner. Gay sportsmen.

Cricketer Steve Davi is the first and only English male pro to e out as gay. Gay cricket ach and activist Sam Schofield has cricised the England and Wal Cricket Board (ECB) for “lettg down” the LGBTQ+ muny.

OPENLY GAY CRICKETERS

After Jake Daniels beme England’s first pro male footballer to e out as gay more than three s, Schofield spoke of the need for more LGBTQ+ role mols cricket. Comparatively, the women’s divisn has players like Natalie Sciver and Kathere Bnt, an openly gay cricketer uple. But what if we assumed our fashnista Indian cricketers to be Gay!

Our film world has yet to see an ‘official’ gay uple and even if there is none, here is OUR pairg that n su you bt. Virat might be a ‘relatnship’ wh Anhka Sharma but he were to be gay, we uld easily p him agast latter’s former flame, Ranveer Sgh.

Ishant Sharma – Kunal KapoorIf we are lookg for a perfect life-partner for Ishant Sharma (here gay), then our heads turn to none other than Kunal Kapoor. Openly gay cricketers? Apart om Alex Blackwell and Steven Davi, are there any other openly gay cricketers?

FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY

Are there any openly gay cricketers playg today? Or any openly gay retired cricketers for that matter? If 's an unnfirmed report then the player isn't openly gay is he?

Perhaps I word my post clumsily - the player ncerned, as I unrstand , is known to be gay throughout the game, well his own drsg room at least so to that extent is openly so - but the prs eher don't know, don't re, or, hopefully, jt don't thk s important enough to mentn - though I doubt the latter tbh.

BTW I prume the OP was referrg to openly gay male cricketers rather than femal. Partly I reckon - and here I am guilty of a whoppg great assumptn - that cricket is a sport that is ls likely to attract gay men than many sports, and more likely to attract gay women.

'BRAVE' CRICKETER DAVI REVEALS HE IS GAY

Perhaps the more important factor is that there seems to be much ls of a taboo about gay women sport than gay men, so more women than men feel happy to be "out".

ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY

I've heard mors about him beg gay but never seen them e om a legimate source. I've always thought there's ls of a taboo about gay men than women most walks of life, but sport don't seem that way. Gay men are much ls accepted than gay women almost every area IMO.

People feel a lot more unfortable around gay guys than gay girls. Shane Warne may wear masra but his not gay. If I was gay, Lee would be numero uno.

And this XI all have one thg mon – they are gay. Set up 1996 wh the aim of providg an “opportuny for people to watch and play cricket irrpective of genr or sexual orientatn, ” a world where beg gay wasn’t always accepted, Grac have bee a haven for people to e to terms wh their sexualy while also allowg them to play cricket.

GAY CRICKET STAR ALEX BLACKWELL SAYS SHE’S TIRED OF LBIANS SPORT BEG ‘PROFILED AS PREDATORS’

They’ve often e om societi where is illegal to be gay and the opportuny to meet like-md dividuals is somethg that Sam Nimaiyar, who was born India, has valued immensely. But for Chris Sherwood – the club’s prs and publicy officer – beg able to play cricket and not stand out for beg gay is one of Grac’ unique appeal.

“It’s nice not to be ‘the gay one, ’” Sherwood said. “I always feel like if I was a straight team, ’s like ‘oh Chris, he’s the gay one’ and then I have to e out. “This is the reason ’s difficult for people to e out bee there’s all this banter about gay beg lser somehow and to sudnly go ‘that’s me, I’m gay, ’ ’s que a difficult thg to do.

Modi moved om India to the UK 2004 and although he had known he was gay for the prev 18 months, he’d never had any gay relatnships. Upon movg to London, a batn of his membership at Grac, his new gay iends and his ex-boyiend – whom he still creds for much of the posive aspects of his life – Modi cid to e out to the most important person his life – his dad. In tradnal Indian culture, where arranged marriag are often the norm, to have an openly gay relative would harm a fay’s abily to attract potentially prospero spo.

ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY

Although is timated that the law change affected 104 ln gay Indians, is still not monplace to be openly gay Indian society.

Whether is bee of tradnal attus or homophobic beliefs that still permeate through the untry as a rult of relig iologi, the numbers of openly gay people India is disproportnate to the populatn of India. It’s impossible to ppot a sgular actn that will fively change the perspective of the Indian populatn of the LGBT muny, but speakg to Modi and Nimaiyar, is clear that they believe that havg famo Indian ins – whether they are sports stars or celebri other walks of life – voice their support for the LGBT muny, is somethg that uld signifintly help gay people.

However, she advised him not to e out to his brother and father bee “they would rather you be a rapist or murrer than gay. And isn’t jt the ethnic ntgent of the club who have had to al wh homophobic abe durg their liv.