Gay ex-Sea Eagle wants to speak wh boytters, reveals tails of club’s pri jersey plan
Contents:
- GAY GBY PRO OUT OF RETIREMENT TO TACKLE ‘THLY-VEILED HOMOPHOBIA’ SPORT
- MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY
- WHY GAY AM -HOST RYAN BRIDGE ISN'T AGAST SEA EAGL PLAYERS' BOYTT OF PRI JERSEYS
- GAY EX-SEA EAGLE IAN ROBERTS WANTS TO SPEAK WH BOYTTERS, REVEALS TAILS OF CLUB’S PRI JERSEY PLAN
GAY GBY PRO OUT OF RETIREMENT TO TACKLE ‘THLY-VEILED HOMOPHOBIA’ SPORT
Gay gby player Keegan Hirst is endg his retirement after seven members of the Manly Warrgah Sea Eagl staged a boytt over an LGBTQ+ Pri jersey. Hirst, who beme the first Brish profsnal gby league footballer to e out as gay 2015, said his return to the sport was partly spired by seven members of Manly, a Sydney-based team, cidg they would rather fo a match than wear a top the lours of the rabow July. “After the recent thly-veiled homophobia over a rabow shirt I thought: ‘How n I help wh visibily and cln?
Htg back agast the wave of homophobic his tweets were met wh, Hirst told one troll: “Reprentatn matters. What do mean to gay kids who want to play gby? In 1995, Ian Roberts beme the first gby league player to e out as gay.
MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY
As an olr gay man, this isn’t unfaiar. Manly Sea Eagl ach D Hasler has apologised over the club's handlg of the cln of rabow lours on the club jersey, sayg was a "signifint mistake" pots:Seven players will boytt Thursday's game over the gay pri shirtHasler says the club's executn of the iative was "poor"Manly will face the Roosters on Thursday wh a greatly dispted siSeven players are boyttg their NRL match on Thursday over their team's cisn to wear a gay pri jersey.
(AAP: Dan Himbrechts and Jam Gourley)Ian Roberts, a Manly legend and the first NRL player to e out openly as gay 1995, praised the "thenticy and scery" of Hasler and Cherry-Evans's said was "wonrful" the club would still wear the pri jersey this week and that he had been nsulted about the plan several weeks ago. " Ian Roberts was the first openly gay player the NRL. The Pri jersey arriv almost 30 years after Manly great Ian Roberts famoly me out as gay while playg for the club 1995, makg him the first and only man to ever publicly reveal his sexualy while still on an active roster.
I’d wear the jersey jt for me, for beg the only player brave enough 1995 to e out and say you know what, I’m gay. Jt three years sce Wallaby Israel Falou was famoly dumped for his homophobic views, social media fds self once aga eptg wh divid opns.
WHY GAY AM -HOST RYAN BRIDGE ISN'T AGAST SEA EAGL PLAYERS' BOYTT OF PRI JERSEYS
“It hasn’t totally shocked me like ’s shockg everyone else, ” said former Manly forward Ian Roberts, who was the first high-profile gby player to publicly e out as gay the 1990s.
While the players' stance has been wily nmned, Bridge - who was publilly outed as gay while live on-air 2019 - suggted imposg a set of beliefs on others would simply unrme the tentn of the jersey.
"Homophobia is never on - 's disgtg - but where is this gog to end? "I wonr - and I n't say 's fely the se here - whether relign is beg ed to basilly mask homophobia, and that's not on, " said Chan-Green.
GAY EX-SEA EAGLE IAN ROBERTS WANTS TO SPEAK WH BOYTTERS, REVEALS TAILS OF CLUB’S PRI JERSEY PLAN
Manly club great Ian Roberts - who 1995 beme the first openly gay NRL player - said the players' refal to wear the jersey "breaks my heart", while broadster Pl Kent laid the blame on the club for tryg to flict s own beliefs on s players and not nsultg them before they were ma public. "But if don't have the discsns and say 'y, you don't have to wear those jerseys' then embolns those people their view, which is that beg gay is not natural and I don't thk that is the msage we should be allowg to sift through". The first openly gay gby league player has shared his gut-wrenchg reactn to seven Manly Sea Eagl stars refg to don a rabow-loured pri jersey.