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- WHO IS GARETH THOMAS? OPENLY GAY WAL GBY UNN LEGEND AND REALY STAR DIAGNOSED WH HIV
- RUGBY PLAYER GRABS OPPONENT’S CROTCH AND A GAY FORMER PLAYER MAK A JOKE OF
- RUGBY STAR GARETH THOMAS: I'M GAY
- THE GBY WORLD FENDS OUT GAY ATHLETE, LASH OUT AT HOMOPHOBIA
- MICKEY ROURKE'S GAY GBY FILM IS NO LONGER ABOUT GARETH THOMAS
- THOMAS RELIEF AFTER ADMTG HE IS GAY
WHO IS GARETH THOMAS? OPENLY GAY WAL GBY UNN LEGEND AND REALY STAR DIAGNOSED WH HIV
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He me out as gay 2009, makg him the first openly gay profsnal gby unn player - and will be a star on ITV's new show The Real Full Monty on Ice.
2 The former Welsh ternatnal me out as gay after his marriage broke up and said he hoped would enurage other young gay gby playersCred: Getty Imag. When did Gareth Thomas e out as gay? In December 2009, Thomas announced publicly that he is gay.
RUGBY PLAYER GRABS OPPONENT’S CROTCH AND A GAY FORMER PLAYER MAK A JOKE OF
A former ternatnal gby star has shocked the sports world by revealg that he is gay. * gay rugby player gareth *
He said he did not want to be known as a "gay gby player" but simply as a "gby player".
He was also the first profsnal gby unn player to announce that he was gay, when he me out 2009.
RUGBY STAR GARETH THOMAS: I'M GAY
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Thomas married his wife, Jemma, 2002, but they later divorced before he announced that he was gay 2009.
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THE GBY WORLD FENDS OUT GAY ATHLETE, LASH OUT AT HOMOPHOBIA
A gay player makg a joke about wantg his crotch grabbed?
Thomas has been an amazg role mol for other gay players by and beyond, so he gets a pass on this beg nothg more than a bad attempt at humor on live TV that fell flat. Gareth beme the first openly gay gby player 2009 (Picture: Rex)Gareth told The Mirror that Stephen do not have HIV. Then, December 2009, he publicly announced he was gay, the first profsnal gby unn player to do so.
” Wh a year he’d been voted the most fluential gay person the Inpennt on Sunday Pk List, and received Stonewall’s Hero of the Year was diagnosed HIV+ 2012. A newly sgle gay man by 2012, he’d settled to a route when me to takg sexual health tts.
MICKEY ROURKE'S GAY GBY FILM IS NO LONGER ABOUT GARETH THOMAS
HIV for me was always the gay plague.
“When I me out as gay I watched everyone e out wh me. I went om Gareth Thomas the gby player to Gareth Thomas the gay gby player.
Dad went om Barry Thomas, father of the pta of Wal, to father of the gay boy.
THOMAS RELIEF AFTER ADMTG HE IS GAY
I was near enough forced to e out as gay.
STORY HIGHLIGHTSFormer ternatnal gby star Gareth Thomas of Wal reveals that he is gayThe 35-year-old is the sport's first high-profile name to acknowledge beg homosexualHe married his childhood sweetheart 2002 but they are separated and gettg divorcedThomas retired om ternatnals 2007 as Wal' most-pped player (CNN) -- A former ternatnal gby star has shocked the sports world by revealg that he is gay.
He is the first openly gay top-level gby player, although top referee Nigel Owens me out 2007. While homosexualy a macho such as gby is rarely acknowledged, top-level tennis players such as Billie Jean Kg, Marta Navratilova and Amelie Mrmo have discsed beg lbian. I knew I would never be accepted as a gay man and still achieve what I wanted to achieve the game--Gareth Thomas.