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Contents:

• JT FASHANU: THE FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER AND WHY HE IS NOW THE HALL OF FAME
• JT FASHANU, FIRST FOOTBALLER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY BRISH FOOTBALL PLAYER FASHANU MAK HALL OF FAME
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY
• DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI
• FIVE THGS TO KNOW ABOUT FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER JT FASHANU
• 30 YEARS AFTER JT FASHANU ME OUT AS GAY, THE SPECTRE OF HOMOPHOBIA STILL HANGS OVER FOOTBALL – BUT THERE IS HOPE

JT FASHANU: THE FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER AND WHY HE IS NOW THE HALL OF FAME

His cisn to e out publicly - an era when even his own ach cricised him for attendg gay clubs - has been an spiratn beyond the world of football.

JT FASHANU, FIRST FOOTBALLER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

But nearly a later, ultimately me at a tragic price - Fashanu took his own life, wrg his suici note that beg gay and a personaly "is so hard" the first black man to tra football clubs for a fee of £1 ln, Fashanu is remembered by many to be a trailblazer English football for more than one reason. Cred: PAA promisg young striker, Fashanu imprsed as part of the Norwich Cy amy and signed his first profsnal ntract December 1978, aged a month - and jt before he turned 18 - he was ma his first league appearance for Norwich and would tablish himself as a regular John Bond's young forward's eye for goals soon ught the attentn of bigger clubs, wh his stunng volley agast Liverpool voted Goal of the Season strike is still nsired one of the bt goals ever sred at Carrow Road, Norwich Cy's home are more female footballers openly gay or bisexual than male players? Cred: PAA clearly talented player, Fashanu's reer perhaps should have clud more trophi, goals and England potential was certaly curtailed by football's - and society's - unwillgns to accept Fashanu's sexualy, even before he publicly me 's said that Clough, nsired one of the greatt managers of all time, did not take kdly to Fashanu's his tobgraphy, he looks back at a time he nonted the young striker after mours he spent time gay bars.

FIRST OPENLY GAY BRISH FOOTBALL PLAYER FASHANU MAK HALL OF FAME

Cred: PAOn October 22, 1990, he told the world the tth an terview wh The Sun, which ran wh the headle: "£1m Football Star: I AM GAY.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

Beg gay and a personaly is so hard but everybody has hard at the moment so I n't pla about that. Jt Fashanu is still the only openly gay profsnal footballer this untry has seen.

JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990

Cred: PAFashanu is nsired by many the game as a the first black man to mand a seven-figure fee and the first profsnal footballer to e out as gay, he broke through two ceilgs at a time football hooliganism was at s this day, he is still the only profsnal top-level footballer to e out publicly Jt Fashanu Foundatn, found by his niece Amal, works to nont prejudice wh football, supports those sufferg wh mental health issu and has a special foc on the LGBT Fashanu spoke of her uncle's admissn to the Hall of Fame. Jt Fashanu is the first footballer to ever e out publicly as gay.

The England ternatnal was the first footballer to publicly e out as gay. Brian Clough didn’t like the mors that Jt Fashanu vised gay nightclubs and bars.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY

Brian Clough barred Jt om trag wh the rt of the team bee he was gay.

Jt publicly me out as gay October 1990 while playg for Leyton Orient.

He told the Sun tabloid prs that he met the MP a London gay bar and end up bed wh him. Homosexual acts were illegal Maryland state where Fashanu was livg. He wrote on the note that he fled to England bee he knew he uld not get a fair trial the Uned Stat due to his homosexual stat.

DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI

The Jt Campaign was created his honor to promote the cln of openly gay players football. FILE PHOTO: Football - Stock Jt Fashanu - Norwich Cy Mandatory Cred: Actn Imag/File PhotoMANCHESTER, England (Rters) - Bra’s first and only openly gay footballer, Jt Fashanu, is to be posthumoly ducted to the Hall of Fame at the Natnal Football Mm Manchter this week, Sky Sports reported on former Norwich Cy and Nottgham Fort striker took his own life 1998 aged 37, eight years after g out publicly to the prs.

Fashanu, whose move to Fort 1981 ma him the first black footballer to mand a one ln pounds transfer fee, will be regnised at a ceremony on will jo more than 100 male players the English Football Hall of Fame, which was set up 2002 to honour those who have ma an outstandg ntributn to the niece Amal, who ns The Jt Fashanu Foundatn which highlights issu of homophobia and other forms of discrimatn football, will llect the award. “I gus for Jt this would be a great moment and I thk ’s a pivotal moment when we are fally regnisg who Jt Fashanu was, not only as the openly gay footballer, but also as a very talented footballer and the first ln-pound black player England, ” she told Sky Sports.

But tak guts to e out and reveal one’s genr as gay, which is ually an act of urage a world that is not ndned to accept every genr. This listicle will mentn eight male football players who dared to e out as gay. Seventeen male footballers have urageoly revealed their sexualy as gay public so far.

FIVE THGS TO KNOW ABOUT FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER JT FASHANU

Even though has already been three s sce Jt Fashanu first publicly me out as gay, there are only a few of them revealg . The primary reason behd many gay footballers not revealg their sexualy publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pch.

So, many profsnal leagu, teams, and players are raisg their voic to fight back agast homophobia so that gay footballers don’t face backlash while g out. Now, whout any further ado, let’s list the football players who dared to e out as gay publicly. Moreover, Andy Brennan is the first Atralian male footballer to openly disclosed beg gay.

Currently, he is the only openly gay football player to play any of the Amerin top 5 major leagu. In 2020, durg the San Diego Loyal match agast Phoneix Risg FC, Mart released a story of homophobic sults directed toward him.

30 YEARS AFTER JT FASHANU ME OUT AS GAY, THE SPECTRE OF HOMOPHOBIA STILL HANGS OVER FOOTBALL – BUT THERE IS HOPE

One of the hight-profile male football players publicly clarg himself as gay is German footballer Thomas Hzlsperger.

In January 2014, Hzlsperger me out as gay while terviewg Die Ze, a German newspaper.