Comedian Joel Creasey has mented on the difficulti nontg a gay footballer g out publicly
Contents:
- “I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
- JOEL CREASEY OPENS UP ON GAY PLAYERS THE AFL
- SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
- AFL’S GAY MALE PLAYERS OPT TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY PRIVATE TO AVOID BEG THE FIRST TO COME OUT
“I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
Jack Vidgen, one of the stars on Atralia’s I’m A Celebry… Get Me Out Of Here!, has revealed that he knows 10 or 12 gay Atralian Football League players, reports. Vidgen, who ma a name for himself on Atralia’s Got Talent, was talkg about homosexualy sport wh former AFL stars Travis Vare and Robert “Dipper” DiPerdomeni.
“I probably know about 10 or 12 footy players, I’d never say their name, that are gay but they wouldn’t e out, ” Vidgen said. Comedian Joel Creasey has mented on the difficulti nontg a gay footballer g out publicly, after revealg he had a sexual affair wh a “bloody good” current AFL player.
“He's gog to be 'the gay player', and you don't want that. You want to be intified as the bt your field, not as the bt gay player.
JOEL CREASEY OPENS UP ON GAY PLAYERS THE AFL
While valu the broar muny would suggt the first player to reveal their homosexualy will be embraced, there is no doubt a mentaly wh the system that mak a challenge.
Dermott Brereton only last year ma claims gay players the AFLW were “groomg” straight young teammat, somethg Gillon McLachlan quickly refuted. "I have been to the football a few tim, ” Creasey says, “and I have been stg the stands and I've heard lots of (anti-gay slurs) ed as tnts to players and yelled out. SAM GILBERT, gay in.
It might not be a scriptor the St Kilda fenr ever expected, but, acrdg to Jason Ball (Atralian Football's first openly gay male player), the scriptn is que, a 28-year-old centre half-back for Victorian untry club Yarra Glen, explaed how highly Gilbert is thought of by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and qutng (LGBTIQ) muny.
SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
"He's bee a gay in a way, " Ball said of the veteran Sats fenr. "It sent a msage to other people the sportg world that sayg no to homophobia don't make you ls of a man.
"I me to unrstand a lot of the homophobic language and behavur wasn't g om a place of hatred towards me or gay people, but rather jt ignorance and not knowg the impact on me, " Ball said. "Once I was out, that homophobic language fad.
AFL’S GAY MALE PLAYERS OPT TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY PRIVATE TO AVOID BEG THE FIRST TO COME OUT
"(They weren't) necsarily directed at me, but every time I would hear those words, felt like a remr if they found out I was gay, I wouldn't be accepted.