Zanr Murray says the great time he had gog to a Pri event this year nvced him to e out as openly gay.
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
Blackpool footballer Jake Daniels won praise when he me out as gay, so why have no profsnal players Stland done the same? * gay footballers in scotland *
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.
”“Of urse there are gay footballers our game. How e there’s nae openly gay male fba players the SPFL?
ALISTAIR HEATHER: WHAT’S STOPPG GAY FOOTBALLERS STLAND OM G OUT? I ASKED TWTER AND THIS IS WHAT I LEARNED
* gay footballers in scotland *
None are openly homosexual. 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? 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. 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”.
STTISH PRO SOCCER PLAYER ZANR MURRAY OUT AS GAY
“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]”. But he highlighted the ma prsure as beg the sire not the be “The First” gay footballer Stland. Norwich Cy players warm up wearg t-shirts of support for Jake Daniels after the footballer revealed he was gay.
GROUP OF 20 GAY FOOTBALLERS '˜NSIRG G OUT TOGETHER'
Another person who ntacted me poted out that “Unls you’re Msi or his Sttish equivalent [g out as gay] will domate your reer, and I’m not sure people are sperate for that. Image the hulabaloo and the prsure of beg endlsly known as “the gay player”.
ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST SENR STTISH MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
I got a chat wh a gay guy who lov the fba, and even plays for the LGBT-iendly team Edburgh Hot Sts when he gets the chance. *should* a gay male SPFL player e out?
“I spect that [a gay male footballer Stland] would be well supported by lleagu, and the experience of Jake down south seems to bear that out, ” he told me. “There are gay players the Sttish game and they are ‘out’ to their team mat, ” he told me.