The gay gby player on hidg the closet, what was like after g out, and what he looks for a man.
Contents:
- GAY GBY PRO OUT OF RETIREMENT TO TACKLE ‘THLY-VEILED HOMOPHOBIA’ SPORT
- FIRST OPENLY GAY GBY LEAGUE PLAYER KEEGAN HIRST OUT OF RETIREMENT
- GAY GBY PLAYER KEEGAN HIRST SHOWS HIS NAKED SI
GAY GBY PRO OUT OF RETIREMENT TO TACKLE ‘THLY-VEILED HOMOPHOBIA’ SPORT
Gay gby player Keegan Hirst is endg his retirement after seven members of the Manly Warrgah Sea Eagl staged a boytt over an LGBTQ+ Pri jersey. Hirst, who beme the first Brish profsnal gby league footballer to e out as gay 2015, said his return to the sport was partly spired by seven members of Manly, a Sydney-based team, cidg they would rather fo a match than wear a top the lours of the rabow July.
“After the recent thly-veiled homophobia over a rabow shirt I thought: ‘How n I help wh visibily and cln? Htg back agast the wave of homophobic his tweets were met wh, Hirst told one troll: “Reprentatn matters.
What do mean to gay kids who want to play gby? Keegan Hirst, the first Brish gby league star to e out as gay, has reversed his retirement cisn wh the hope to play for the Batley Bulldogs for the rt of 2022. “After the recent thly-veiled homophobia over a rabow shirt, I thought how n I help wh visibily and cln?
FIRST OPENLY GAY GBY LEAGUE PLAYER KEEGAN HIRST OUT OF RETIREMENT
And a lot of would be seen as beg MUCH “gayer” than a rabow on a jersey…. Hirst beme the first Brish profsnal gby league player to e out as gay 2015.
Gay sportsmen. Homophobia sport.
Jt this weekend, Keegan me out, and, as of Sunday, beme the first openly gay gby league player to take the pch. Keegan said that he'd never "been out as a gay guy on the pull" and that he don't "know yet how the thgs work.
GAY GBY PLAYER KEEGAN HIRST SHOWS HIS NAKED SI
He end his marriage wh his wife Serena, he beme iends wh Ian McKellen and Elton John, and he was feted at Manchter Pri (even wearg a Stonewall "It Gets Better" T-shirt) a new terview for, the athlete talks about how he didn't have any "gay mat" growg up and had "re-programmed [himself] to like girls. And he says his 7-year-old dghter knows that he's gay.
Photography by Leigh Keily for Attu MagazeIn that terview, Keegan said that jog the ranks of the gay celebry circu has been surreal: Emma Watson direct msaged him on Twter, and he got a ll om HRH Elton John. Keegan Hirst, the first Brish gby league player to e out as gay, says he has received nothg but support spe playg a cy where he said there were not any gay people.
"There's not any gay people Batley, not that I know of, " he said. "You expect a b of stick [mockg] om fans, om players -- you get whether you're gay or not -- but there wasn't any of that. @KeeganHirst Bee of your brave story, I fally told my iends and fay this morng that I am gay.