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Contents:
- KEEGAN HIRST: ‘I’M PROUD TO BE A GBY LEAGUE PLAYER AND I’M PROUD TO BE GAY’
- WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RUGBY LEAGUE
- THIS PRO GGER SAYS HE’S KISSED GAY MEN, PROUD TO BE SEXUALLY FLUID
- LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
- THE URAGEO JOURNEY OF IAN ROBERTS, GBY LEAGUE'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
- IS GBY GAY
- RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS ATRALIA TO BOYTT KEY MATCH OVER GAY PRI JERSEY
- I'M A CELEBRY AU: BE RYAN SAYS HE'S CERTA THERE ARE GAY PLAYERS THE NRL
- TACKLG HOMOPHOBIC ATTUS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO PLAY FOR GAY GBY CLUBS
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
KEEGAN HIRST: ‘I’M PROUD TO BE A GBY LEAGUE PLAYER AND I’M PROUD TO BE GAY’
Casey Conway tells his story about beg gay and playg gby league after the NRL participated the Mardi Gras for the fifth year * rugby league is gay *
The top eight teams qualify for the was the only club planng to wear a pri jersey this Manly forward Ian Roberts, who the 1990s was the first high-profile gby league player to e out as gay, said he was not surprised by the players’ cisn. A former English gby league star has rpond to the recent LGBTQIA+ jersey saga engulfg the Manly Sea Eagl.Openly-gay ex-player Keegan Hirst says 's rather ironic that the group are boyttg wearg the pri k bee he's seen 'what go on changg rooms' and 'would be seen as beg MUCH gayer' than simply wearg a rabow jersey for a game.Cred: AlamyThe Manly Sea Eagl have ma headl across the world this week after releasg their 'Everyone League' jersey – unfortunately, though, wasn't for the right reasons.What was meant to be a posive move to drive clivy soon turned sour when several players threatened to boytt their next game after refg to wear the club’s rabow strip.Josh Aloiai, Jason Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Josh Schter, Hmole Olak’atu, Tolut Koula and Toafofoa Sipley have been named as the players qutn and will subsequently miss their next fixture after beg stood down on relig grounds.The saga hasn't pated anyone volved a particularly pleasant light wh both the players and the club self g unr fire.A number of big-name figur have had their say on the matter, cludg the NRL's first and only openly-gay player Ian Roberts.Now Hirst, who me out as gay 2015 durg his time the UK Super League, has h out at the Sea Eagl players.“I’d be terted to hear what which relig and cultural beliefs stop you wearg a shirt wh a rabow on but not one that promot gamblg etc?” Hirst tweeted.“Hey @SeaEagl, I’d be honoured to wear your Pri shirt.
And a lot of would be seen as beg MUCH ‘gayer’ than a rabow on a jersey.”Another Twter er then rpond, sayg: "To me there is no such person as a gay person. All people are equal no need for gay pri."To which Hirst replied: "Dave, I wish that were the se.
WHAT MEANS TO BE GAY RUGBY LEAGUE
The Lester scm-half has thanked his ach and teammat for their ‘unbelievable’ support after g out as gay * rugby league is gay *
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THIS PRO GGER SAYS HE’S KISSED GAY MEN, PROUD TO BE SEXUALLY FLUID
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LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
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“No matter who you are and what you do, beg gay shouldn’t get the way, ” he says.
THE URAGEO JOURNEY OF IAN ROBERTS, GBY LEAGUE'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
Europe’s first openly gay owners of a profsnal sports club look ahead to the latt match celebratg the Pri movement * rugby league is gay *
”In 2015, Hirst beme the first openly gay gby league player Bra – Gareth Thomas was playg unn when he went public on his sexualy – while playg for Batley and sce then, his life has changed ways he never imaged. “When I me out, I was clear that I didn’t want to go on a csa and be a gay in, a p-up, ” Hirst says.
IS GBY GAY
“I jt wanted to be me – but almost immediately, I was gettg msag om guys who were married but knew they were gay, people who played sport but stopped bee they were gay and didn’t want to e out. ”Hirst dreamed of beg a gby player om a young age but beg a role mol for gay people was never his tentn. “I jt didn’t want to thk I was gay for que some time, ” he says.
But John Kear, my ach at Batley, jt said: ‘It don’t matter to me if you’re gay, you’re my pta and that’s all that matters. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The GuardianHirst’s reer has gone om strength to strength sce g out. “But I’m proud to be me, I’m proud to be a gby league player and I’m proud to be gay.
Casey Conway tells his story about beg gay and playg gby league after the NRL participated the Mardi Gras for the fifth year. All month long, Outsports is revisg key moments gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer sports history as part of LGBTQ history month.
RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS ATRALIA TO BOYTT KEY MATCH OVER GAY PRI JERSEY
And he me out openly as gay to a gay magaze while still playg.
I'M A CELEBRY AU: BE RYAN SAYS HE'S CERTA THERE ARE GAY PLAYERS THE NRL
Roberts has always been a standup guy who never went along wh the BS stereotyp volvg gays sports. Anyone who knew me wh gby league, wh the aterny, knew that I was gay. But, shocked a few the public, yeah, but, but by that stage I, I mt adm, was so a non-issue for me, and I mean that wh all my heart, was, you know, now, I look back now, my God, nowadays I get remd that I’m gay.
TACKLG HOMOPHOBIC ATTUS: THE STRAIGHT MEN WHO PLAY FOR GAY GBY CLUBS
People mightn’t rpect the way you live your life but, you know, everyone rpects honty and tth, and if you’re a cent person on top of that, you know, the end, do, falls away beg gay. Yet at the same time he had male partners and would equent gay clubs. I tried to nceal the fact that I was gay, at that time, and, and still I had a, male partners, boyiends, tryg to nceal that and, and, and work out the right batn, or the right equatn, for the general public or even iends and fay.
Everyone always seemed to know that I’d been a gay bar every time I turned up for trag, ‘Robbo, you up Oxford Street aga, eh? I mean, you know, this is a tough thg to say but, you know, predomately gay people want to be treated as equal but fail to treat themselv as equal. I mean that wh all my heart and I, and until you learn what that means, as a gay person, thgs are never gog to change for , you know, thgs won’t change if you don’t change.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
But he still giv great terviews and is sought after Down Unr whenever gays sports stori e up. When Asie Rul Football player Jason Akermanis said some ignorant thgs about gay teammat and showers last year, Roberts blasted him:.