A young GAA player has told OTB Sports about his experienc of gog public as gay and the receptn om his team and wh the sport.
Contents:
- GAY THE GAA - ONE MAN'S STORY
- 14 GAY SPORTG STARS WHO TOOK THE CISN TO GO PUBLIC
- ELE MALE GAA PLAYER COMG OUT AS GAY WOULD BE 'PROGRSIVE' MOVE
- DONAL OG CACK'S RELATNSHIP WH BOYIEND NATHAN ADAMS, G OUT AS GAY AND CORK HURLG REER
- EX-TYRONE GAA STAR CATHAL MCCARRON UGHT ON MERA AS GAY PORN TAPE IS LEAKED
- REFEREE DAVID GOUGH ADMS 'S 'SAD' MORE MALE GAA PLAYERS HAVEN'T E OUT AS GAY
- PRI: WHY NO GAY MALE GAA PLAYER SCE DóNAL ÓG?
GAY THE GAA - ONE MAN'S STORY
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A young GAA player has told OTB Sports about his experienc of beg an openly gay male the sport. On the pch, Brian said he had not faced any discrimatn as a gay man.
14 GAY SPORTG STARS WHO TOOK THE CISN TO GO PUBLIC
Aislg Maher believ would be "a really progrsive and posive move for the GAA" if an ele male player were to e out as gay. * gay gaa player *
Jt bee you're gay don't mean you n't play football, don't fall to the stereotyp and jt be who you want to be. Ne-time All-Ireland wner Valerie Mulhy will reveal how she alt wh her sexualy Donal Óg Cack's documentary to be aired next Cork footballer has bee the first high-profile female GAA star to e out publicly and do so to help others and to make other women, who are a siar suatn, to feel more fortable wh who they Óg Cack, the first openly gay GAA sports star, looks at attus towards homosexualy at home and abroad his documentary Comg Out Of The Curve which will be aired on Monday night on RTE, We take a look at other gay sports stars who took the cisn to go Og Cack (hurlg)The much-rated Rebel star is one of the greatt goalkeepers the game of hurlg has ever seen.
ELE MALE GAA PLAYER COMG OUT AS GAY WOULD BE 'PROGRSIVE' MOVE
He beme the first ele Irish sportsman to reveal he was gay his tobgraphy, 'Come What May', released last year.
DONAL OG CACK'S RELATNSHIP WH BOYIEND NATHAN ADAMS, G OUT AS GAY AND CORK HURLG REER
"Whatever you may feel about me or who I am, I've always been at peace wh , " he Cack (hurlg)The Cloyne hurler who last year bravely spoke out about his battle wh prsn joed his brother Donal Og Cack revealg that he is gay last year. He ntu to highlight mental health Stoney (football)England women's football pta said sh cid to speak publicly about beg gay after the posive reactn to diver Tom Daley sayg he was a relatnship wh a man. Stoney, who has 116 ps for England, is now the most high-profile active gay footballer Hzlsperger (football)The 31-year-old, pped more than 50 tim for Germany, announced he was gay last year, the first high-profile German player to do so and the first to have played regularly the English Premier League.
The former Aston Villa midfielr was advised by iends to keep his sexualy quiet but was astound by the posive reactn to his Fashanu (football)Bra's first black footballer to mand a £1ln transfer fee was also the first top-flight player to publicly adm his homosexualy.
After admtg he was gay, Fashanu stggled to reigne an already stutterg reer, and retired 1997, blamg his downfall on prejudice the English game. Louganis' tobgraphy, which spent five weeks at number one on the New York Tim bt-seller list on s release 1995, tailed his rise to global promence and subsequent cisn to e out as a homosexual livg wh HIV. Marta Navratilova (tennis)The Czech-born ne-time Wimbledon champn me out publicly as gay 1981, a short time after she was granted US cizenship.
EX-TYRONE GAA STAR CATHAL MCCARRON UGHT ON MERA AS GAY PORN TAPE IS LEAKED
"Prr to beg a [US] cizen, I uldn't speak my md about beg gay, " she said.
"John Amaechi (basketball)The Amerin-born Bron was the first NBA player to openly adm to beg gay 2007. "Gareth Thomas (gby unn)Thomas, who was Wal' most-pped player and a former Brish and Irish Lns pta, publicly announced he was gay December 2009 at the age of 35.
"Steven Davi (cricket)The England and Surrey wicketkeeper beme the first active profsnal cricketer to openly adm to beg gay Febary 2011. " Davi, now 27, has played eight one-day ternatnals and five Twenty20 ternatnals for Rogers (soccer)Former Leeds wger and Uned Stat ternatnal Rogers revealed he was gay Febary 2013 and at the same time announced his retirement om football at the age of 25.
REFEREE DAVID GOUGH ADMS 'S 'SAD' MORE MALE GAA PLAYERS HAVEN'T E OUT AS GAY
"Nila Adams (boxg)Olympic boxg gold medallist Nila Adams topped the Inpennt's annual 'Pk List' poll of fluential lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people November moreRead more: Read moreRead more:.
PRI: WHY NO GAY MALE GAA PLAYER SCE DóNAL ÓG?
Aislg Maher believ would be "a really progrsive and posive move for the GAA" if an ele male player were to follow Blackpool footballer Jake Daniels g out as gay. Durg the week, 17-year-old Daniels beme the first active male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990.
There wasn't really a huge amount of out gay players wh Dubl mogie that time.