Blackpool footballer Jake Daniels won praise when he me out as gay, so why have no profsnal players Stland done the same?
Contents:
- ZANR MURRAY IS FIRST CURRENT STTISH PROFSNAL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
- ALISTAIR HEATHER: WHAT’S STOPPG GAY FOOTBALLERS STLAND OM G OUT? I ASKED TWTER AND THIS IS WHAT I LEARNED
- STTISH PRO SOCCER PLAYER ZANR MURRAY OUT AS GAY
- GROUP OF 20 GAY FOOTBALLERS '˜NSIRG G OUT TOGETHER'
- ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST SENR STTISH MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
ZANR MURRAY IS FIRST CURRENT STTISH PROFSNAL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
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Zanr Murray has bee the first current profsnal footballer Stland to e out as gay.
Murray is the first openly gay footballer to play the Sttish leagu sce Jt Fashanu, who played for Hearts the 1993-94 season.
”Murray also lled for more support to help gay footballers the men’s game, addg that he would cle beg tagged social media posts an effort to hi his sexualy, bee of his reer as a profsnal footballer. I put a post on my social media tellg folk I was gay. Photograph: News Imag/Alamy“I have done lots of rearch and I always keep an eye on media outlets to see if there are any platforms for young gay male players for support but there are none, ” he add.
ALISTAIR HEATHER: WHAT’S STOPPG GAY FOOTBALLERS STLAND OM G OUT? I ASKED TWTER AND THIS IS WHAT I LEARNED
Zanr Murray says the great time he had gog to a Pri event this year nvced him to e out as openly gay. * gay footballers in scotland *
”“Of urse there are gay footballers our game. How e there’s nae openly gay male fba players the SPFL?
None are openly homosexual.
STTISH PRO SOCCER PLAYER ZANR MURRAY OUT AS GAY
Is the abe that would e fae away fans that’s trappg gay players the closet here? Are young gay men exclud fae the game the first place? So why is there no publicly ‘out’ gay footballer Stland?
GROUP OF 20 GAY FOOTBALLERS '˜NSIRG G OUT TOGETHER'
I spoke to two Sttish Cup wners, an MP, the head of an LGBT chary, a uple of my gay male pals and also engaged loads of lively chats my DMs. Gay men of Stland who follow me – a qutn:.
That’s the neart eher of them had ever got to playg wh an openly gay footballer Stland, across their bed s the game.
ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST SENR STTISH MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
But he suggted: “Young boys maybe thk that football’s not the environment for them, if they do feel gay. Homophobic language was embedd the vernacular of the game durg the 80s and to the 90s, Dave went on, but “the culture has changed”. “I don’t thk players would bat an eyelid if a [fellow] player me out as gay, ” he said.
image the prsure of beg the first openly gay footballer Stland. But gay men really didn’t agree wh that. One, who plays 5s and has a season ticket for an SPFL team, did say there will likely be fewer gay men the SPFL due to the perceptn that the game is “not for [them]”.