In 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the first football player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, only seventeen players have done the same.
Contents:
- MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
- 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
- THOMAS HZLSPERGER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY NEWSPAPER TERVIEW
- THOMAS HZLSPERGER BE FIRST HIGH-PROFILE GAY FOOTBALLER
MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
I'm a brother, son, iend, former pro footballer, entreprenr and annoygly petive lad. I'm a lot of thgs, and one of them is gay. * gay footballer thomas *
Sce then, there have been so few visible stori of gay men our sport, pecially England. German midfielr Thomas Hzlsperger, the only known gay man to play the Premier League, me out 2014, the year after he gay and havg a reer football never felt like an optn. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is gay, and the thgs are all football, there's still fear a gay teammate might dispt the team environment.
Sometim 's bshed away, like homophobia isn't an issue football anymore. I have heard gay slurs fly around changg rooms and on the pch. I mean, one of the worst thgs you n say to someone a sportg environment is: "You're so gay.
The more I uld stay awake, the more I uld put off addrsg how I really a sophomore I was named the program's first-ever first-team All-Amerin.
8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
<p>Former Premier League footballer and German ternatnal talks to <strong>Raphael Honigste</strong> about how he wanted to tell the world he was gay while he was still playg Germany for Wolfsburg, but was advised agast </p> * gay footballer thomas *
This is nothg new for a closeted gay athlete. Do not fear the day where a gay athlete is wearg the badge on your shirt.
THOMAS HZLSPERGER ANNOUNC HE IS GAY NEWSPAPER TERVIEW
* gay footballer thomas *
After all, we uld be missg out on the next Lnel Msi, who jt might happen to be gay. In the morng he had bee the hight-profile footballer to announce he is gay, and the hours afterwards he had not checked the public reactn.
" The prime mister, as turns out, would soon add his voice to a raft of high-profile well-wishers that clud Angela Merkel, the German natnal team manager Joachim Löw, and the former German foreign mister Guido Wterwelle, who is also all talked about the former Aston Villa, Wt Ham and Everton midfielr's "urage" breakg one of sport's last great taboos: Hzlsperger, pped 52 tim by his untry, is the first German footballer to reveal he is gay. Where I e om, ral Bavaria, homosexualy is nsired 'un-normal'.
Photograph: Peter Kneffel/EPAWhile Germany as a untry has noticeably bee more and more relaxed about homosexualy recent years, he had also noted there was an unhelpful media obssn wh fdg the first gay footballer.
THOMAS HZLSPERGER BE FIRST HIGH-PROFILE GAY FOOTBALLER
<p>Thomas Hzlsperger has bee the most high-profile footballer to e out, announcg on Wednday that he is gay</p> * gay footballer thomas *
All sorts of well-tend but ultimately unhelpful terventns om heterosexual players – who eher oped that gay players would benef om g out or utned agast – did not exactly fill him wh nfince that this was ed the right step. Homosexualy was rarely a big topic any of the drsg rooms he enuntered, he says, and "the subject only me up when people were speculatg about someone else's sexualy, but never their prence.