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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.

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MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY

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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.

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 *

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. 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. 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 ANNOUNC HE IS GAY NEWSPAPER TERVIEW

In 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the first football player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, only seventeen players have done the same. * 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. "There was the odd cince of crass homophobia, as well, "but that was jt your general, non-specific football talk, " says Hzlsperger.

"I too, ed rogatory terms like 'what a gay pass' whout thkg about when I was younger.

"But the important thg for me is to show that beg homosexual and profsnal football player is somethg that is normal. The perceived ntradictn between playg football, the man's game, and beg homosexual is nonsense. I scerely hope that we'll see the when nobody mentns urage the circumstanc anymore, bee will be seen as totally normal that a sports person will speak about his homosexualy, the way others talk about their wiv and girliends.

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 *

When the chancellor out your favour, you know that 's safe beg homosexual this untry, that you won't be discrimated. Football, like any other game, also has many gay players. But tak guts to e out and reveal one’s genr as gay, which is ually an act of urage a world that is not ndned to accept every genr.

This listicle will mentn eight male football players who dared to e out as gay. Seventeen male footballers have urageoly revealed their sexualy as gay public so far.

Even though has already been three s sce Jt Fashanu first publicly me out as gay, there are only a few of them revealg . The primary reason behd many gay footballers not revealg their sexualy publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pch. So, many profsnal leagu, teams, and players are raisg their voic to fight back agast homophobia so that gay footballers don’t face backlash while g out.

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