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• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY CRICKET STAR MEGAN SCHUTT SLAMS ‘FURIATG’ MYTH
• GAY ATRALIAN CRICKETERS
• ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY
• GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED

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.

GAY CRICKET STAR MEGAN SCHUTT SLAMS ‘FURIATG’ MYTH

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 ATRALIAN CRICKETERS

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.

Atralian cricket in Megan Schutt has bravely slammed the myths surroundg same sex relatnships women’s sport, nmng those who claim “ercn” is behd the higher rat of gay athlet team is one of the Atralian women’s cricket team’s most vol openly gay players and today’s issue of Insight Sport she has nonted the smearg and whisperg mpaign that plagu women’s team revealed when she me out as gay that male cricketers told her that was bee she was a team wh many gay women — an offensive slur not jt on her but on all gay people.

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

“Coercn – everyone cricket is gay, that’s why you’re gay, ” Schutt told Insight the full story: Cricket star Megan Schutt slams bigots that say she was ‘erced to beg gay’Megan Schutt has slammed the myths surroundg same sex relatnships women’s sport. Picture: Getty ImagSource: Getty Imag“That back to thkg that gay is a choice. That one furiat me bee that go down to some really eproots thkg homosexuals are pedophil.

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

“I’m not gog to lie, mak me angry, ” Schutt the full story: Cricket star Megan Schutt slams bigots that say she was ‘erced to beg gay’Megan Schutt is one of the Atralian women’s cricket team’s most vol openly gay players.

“As I said, gay women have easier and until men n feel fortable that’s gog to be the te barometer really, ” Schutt said. Read the full story: Cricket star Megan Schutt slams bigots that say she was ‘erced to beg gay’. One of the bt-known Atralian histori of the game, wrten by Johnny Warren, a former pta of the men’s team, has the ironilly tend tle “Sheilas, Wogs, and Poofters”—a tr of Atralian slurs for, rpectively, women, southern-European immigrants, and gay men, the three groups thought to make up soccer’s nstuency.