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Contents:

• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• 10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT
• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
• WHY ARE GBY PLAYERS SO GAY
• FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY
• LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

There are key differenc the cultur of men's and women's athletics While few active players the major men's sports leagu have e out, many female profsnal athlet have said publicly that they're gay, om U. Rearch challeng 'misperceptns about the sexualy of female gby players' Photo by Matthew Lewis/Getty Imag New rearch nducted partnership wh Harlequs says that nearly half of women’s gby players say homophobic and sexist jok ter girls om playg the sport.

10 GAY RUGBY PLAYERS WHO MA THEIR COME OUT

Le Cowan-Dickie, Six Natns Review and Sckler’s Sna | RugbyPass Offload | Episo 21Le Cowan-Dickie, Six Natns Review and Sckler’s Sna | RugbyPass Offload | Episo 21The rults have been released ahead of Harlequs’ third-annual LGBTQ+ Pri-themed game FINDINGS: – 55 per cent of women and girls agreed that “many women feel unwele to play gby bee of the jok and negative language some people e about women”– 37 per cent heard homophobic slurs at their club the last year and 59 per cent heard sexist slurs and negative jok about women– 15 per cent reported they had been the victim of verbal homophobic abe at their club– 88 per cent said people “often” rrectly assume that they are lbians bee they play gby (15 per cent actually intified as gay or bisexual)– 79 per cent want negative banter about women to stop gby, and 80% want homophobic banter to stop (the earlier rearch by the Harlequs found 65% of men wanted sexist/homophobic banter to stop)Players were also terviewed as part of the rearch. I feel as though my teammat n be their te selv whout fear of judgement om one another said, ” said Beth Evans, who is straight but who is attendg the Harlequs event to support her sister Jo, who is gay. In an terview wh the Sunday Mirror, the now divorced father of two and self-nfsed gay tells of the moment he fally found the words to expla to his wife the reason they uld no longer be together.

As a young spired player he stated, “…this is pretty spirg for me as a fairly new player who happens to be gay, I had held off pursug gby bee of but the guys i play wh give no shs whatsoever and we have good banter about . A large athlete at 6 ft 4 (193 cm) and 225 pounds (102 kg), Bgham was a robt send-row man who played for the gay-clive San Francis Fog RFC and was a favore for his teammat the gby songs that he tght them. 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.

Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so. The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract. The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know.

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

Corey Walsh, the 27-year-old pro BMX rir and Vans spokperson, said he isn't normally the type of person to "let people " on his personal life, but felt was important to e out as gay a March Instagram post bee "there are a lot of people still stgglg wh the same suatns" and he "jt wanted to let people know that they are not alone.

In this article, we’ll name ten of the most notable gay gby personali, analyze their acplishments, discs how they are shapg the game today, and asss their impact on the overall perceptn of homosexual profsnal athlet around the world. Homophobic slurs have been found to be monplace men’s gby unn after rearch disvered that two five players admted to g discrimatory language the past two study was nducted by Premiership gby club Harlequs partnership wh the Harlequs Foundatn and experts om Atralia’s Monash Universy.

WHY ARE GBY PLAYERS SO GAY

In total, 275 male and female players, aged between 16 and 42, were surveyed prr to trag ssns at eight randomly selected clubs the south of England January and Febary this rearch found that 69 per cent of male gby players had heard their team-mat g homophobic slurs “the past two weeks”, while 42 per cent admted to g such language themselv the same time the same time, 67 per cent said they have at least one close gay iend and 69 per cent said they wanted the language to stop. Rabow lac worn by players, officials and masts at a Harlequs Premiership gby match (Getty Imag)Erik Denison, one of the rearchers leadg studi on this issue at the Faculty of Edutn at Atralia’s Monash Universy, said: “It is surprisg to see a near-total disnnect between the homophobic language beg ed by gby players, and their attus to gay people. “Most gby players say they e the homophobic language to get a lgh out of others, or f on their team, and seems they don’t realise how harmful this language is to gay people, or to the team culture generally.

FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY

Qus say they will make the impact of language a foc of the fixture at the survey will be ed to velop evince-based programm that will aim to stop the e of slurs and rogatory jok about gay and bisexual people all sports. Harlequs say they will also ntue to work wh Monash Universy to velop programm that n be livered the 2020-21 ternatnal study found 2014 that there is a signifintly higher drop-out rate sport among LGB youth than there is among heterosexual youth, and surveys have found that 70 per cent of Brish gay mal and 73 per cent of Brish lbians are pletely or partially closeted to team-mat.

The 2014 study remend primary solutns such as offerg to be alli to gay team-mat, ach makg clear that LGBTQ athlet are wele, and ceasg Homophobic humour and slurs play Santos, Director of Sport at Stonewall, said: “As this rearch shows, anti-LGBT attus and language ntue to be an issue across sport. As a rult, has tradnally rerced an orthodox form of twentieth-century masculy that is lked to those who are whe, middle class, able-bodied, and, most important to this analysis, heterosexual (Symons, 2009) is now wily regnized, however, that twenty-first-century sport is a social stutn that shap and impacts upon the liv of gay and lbian athlet too.

Sce soclogist first began to qutn the role that sport plays the productn and reproductn of mascule inty the mid-1980s (Dunng, 1986), there was a slow progrsn om examg sport as a se of male ntrol over women, to regnizg the tersectn between sport and sexualy that rults om the largely heteronormative and homophobic culture of profsnal sport the 1990s and the first of the twenty-first century (Rowe, Markwell, & Stevenson, 2006) was this hospable perd of time that gave rise to sexual orientatn-segregated sportg spac for gay men. The Gay Gam, while spired by the Olympic Gam, were troduced to foster cln rponse to the “apparent racism, sexism, natnalism, homophobia and elism” prent the mastream gam (Symons, 2009, p. Concerng the foc of this chapter, gby, the first soclogil vtigatn occurred the Uned Kgdom by Price and Parker (2003) and they found the existence of the untry’s first gay club (formed 1995) was prcipally anized around pg perceived or actual homophobia of mastream new Millennium brought chang attus toward homosexualy, not only to society, but also to mastream sport (Anrson, 2014).

LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

Exemplifyg this shift empirilly, the first prehensive vtigatn of the experienc of gay mal playg on ostensibly heterosexual teams was nducted by Anrson 2005, and he found that matters had begun to change. This was a fdg that was affirmed by yet further outlook upon the gay male athlet by straight men 2011 (Anrson, 2011), has been repeatedly shown that heterosexual athlet, generally, are creasgly acceptg of homosexualy (Anrson, Magrath, & Bullgham, 2016; Anrson & McCormack, 2015; Bh, Anrson, & Carr, 2012) reason for this acceptance has to do wh changg attudal disposn toward gay men and changg masculy among heterosexual mal. Anrson (2009) has argued that an clive masculy is now the norm for “Whe, middle class men; both si and outsi of sport” rather than the “domeerg, homophobic behavurs and attus of orthodox masculy”.

347) was the first to e the term “clive masculy” to scribe mascule performanc that view hegemonic masculy as unsirable wh a willgns to embrace femy “ls ncerned wh migatg homosexual spicn through homophobia and heterosexism”. There is also evince for creasg societal acceptance of gay athlet and a softeng of media attus toward gay male athlet both the Uned Kgdom and Uned Stat wh a shift toward clive masculy (Cleland, 2014, 2018; Kian & Anrson, 2009) and MasculyRugby, which Dunng (1986, p. In this manner, twentieth-century gby players nsolidated their masculy wh gby servg to privilege prence of gay players the hypermascule, physil gby environment may be the ultimate subversn of the myth of gay men beg effemate and un-mascule (Symons, 2010), a siar manner to the challeng to tradnal nstctns of femy that female players prent (Wright & Clarke, 1999).

This is bee the volvement of gay players a space that has been a fundamental source of heterosexual male power unrm masculy and challeng the boundary between gay and straight mal and ultimately the perceived differenc between men and women as a whole (Anrson, 2002) example, former Welsh ternatnal player, Gareth Thomas—who is one of the most well-known and rpected players Welsh gby history (McGivern & Miller, 2017; Zhu, 2016)—me out December 2009, to an “overwhelmgly supportive” rponse (McCormack & Anrson, 2010, p. His rerd as one of the most succsful players the sport, bed wh his mascule appearance and physil playg style were certaly ntrary to the mythil reprentatns of gay mal and may expla the posive rponse.