Soccer league’s first Pri Game shows power of gay athlet g out - Outsports

gay a league player

Alai Uned midfielr Josh Cavallo beme the first active A-League player to e out as gay on Wednday, sayg he was done wh feelg ashamed about his sexualy and the exhstn of tryg to live a "double-life".

Contents:

‘I HAVE BEEN FIGHTG MY SEXUALY’: A-LEAGUE MEN PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY

* gay a league player *

A-League Men midfielr Josh Cavallo says he knows there are other players “livg silence” after beg the only known current male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay. Ashamed I would never be able to do what I loved and be gay. “Beg a gay closeted footballer, I’ve had to learn to mask my feelgs orr to f the mould of a profsnal footballer.

Growg up beg gay and playg football were jt two worlds that hadn’t crossed paths before.

Labor senate lear and openly gay woman, Penny Wong, tweeted: “Any young person who is stgglg wh their inty, or feelg exclud or judged, n look today to Josh Cavallo. ”Globally there are only a handful of openly gay male footballers, none of whom are playg the top flight.

CAVALLO BE FIRST ACTIVE A-LEAGUE PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

In major league baseball only two players have publicly me out as gay other than that few of mor league players have done so. * gay a league player *

Amerin former Leeds player Robbie Rogers also announced he was gay on retirg 2013, before returng to the field wh LA Galaxy and wng the MLS Cup to bee the first openly gay male athlete to w a major profsnal team sports tle the Uned 2019, former Newstle Jets player Andy Brennan beme Atralia’s first profsnal male footballer to e out while still playg the game.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

In June, 95-year-old former ball player Maybelle Blair me out publicly as gay. At a panel for the A League of Their Own seri at Framele, she shared about queer life the league. * gay a league player *

“It is astonishg to know that there are currently no gay profsnal footballers who are out and actively playg, not only Atralia, but around the world. An origal player the AAGPBL — the spiratn for "A League of Their Own" — me out as gay. For many years, she "thought she was the only gay person the world, " acrdg to Adweek's Mollie Cahillane.

THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN WAS TWO THIRDS GAY, SHAR 95-YEAR-OLD MAYBELLE BLAIR

MELBOURNE, Oct 27 (Rters) - Alai Uned midfielr Josh Cavallo beme the first active A-League player to e out as gay on Wednday, sayg he was done wh feelg ashamed about his sexualy and the exhstn of tryg to live a "double-life". "I'm a footballer and I'm gay, " the 21-year-old said on a vio posted on Alai's social media, drawg support om fellow profsnals across the world. "Few ele male soccer players have e out as gay durg their reers.

'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY

"Cavallo said Thomas Beattie, a former youth player for English club Hull Cy who me out 2020, had been a "role mol" helpg him on his journey and hoped their example might help change thgs for other young gay men sport. "Statistics show only 33% of young gay men play football parison to 68% of young straight men, " he said. So, here we gonna talk about some of the bravt of all begs; as we know, Like other sports, homophobia is still prevalent baseball.

JOSH CAVALLO BE FIRST OUT GAY A-LEAGUE ATRALIAN MEN’S PRO SOCCER PLAYER

Major League Baseball seems to be fallg behd other sports leagu acceptance of gay players. In MLB, players rerd g homophobic slurs gam.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY A LEAGUE PLAYER

The League of Their Own Was 2/3rds Gay, Says Maybelle Blair at 95 .

TOP