High-profile edian Joel Creasey says no AFL players have e out as gay bee of the ramifitns for their reer. He said the burn of beg known as the "first gay AFL footballer" would be a huge burn for any player to rry.
Contents:
- “I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
- WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?
- TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
- RUMOUR GAY AFL PLAYERS
- OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLERS
- SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
- TOP 10 GAY NFL PLAYERS WHO ARE TLY INSPIRATNAL
- THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
- 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
- ‘I HAVE BEEN FIGHTG MY SEXUALY’: A-LEAGUE MEN PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY
- ‘I N UNRSTAND’: GAY PLAYERS THE AFL ‘CHOOSG NOT TO BE FIRST’ OUT PUBLICLY SAYS GILL MCLACHLAN
- THE AFL’S GROWG PROBLEM WH VISIBILY OF GAY PLAYERS
- ANDY BRENNAN IS FIRST MALE ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
- AFL'S EQUALY EFFORTS NTUE, BUT DIFFICULTI FOR GAY PLAYERS REMA
“I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
Let’s be clear right om the start. None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that. The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surro * known gay afl players *
Jack Vidgen, one of the stars on Atralia’s I’m A Celebry… Get Me Out Of Here!, has revealed that he knows 10 or 12 gay Atralian Football League players, reports. Vidgen, who ma a name for himself on Atralia’s Got Talent, was talkg about homosexualy sport wh former AFL stars Travis Vare and Robert “Dipper” DiPerdomeni.
WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?
Carl Nassib is the first to ever play a down as openly gay, but the rt are still trailblazers. * known gay afl players *
“I probably know about 10 or 12 footy players, I’d never say their name, that are gay but they wouldn’t e out, ” Vidgen said.
There are so many different typ of sexual orientatn om heterosexual through to asexual, homosexual, bisexual and more. 2% of the adult populatn Atralia intified as homosexual or bisexual. While beg the face of a gay movement might sound good theory, when ’s your face and private life splashed through the media, ’s a lot to take .
A gay AFL player might prefer to stay out of the spotlight to avoid placg their reer the media’s hand. In 2019, the fullback ma an anti-gay ment on social media (not for the first time), statg that gays will go to hell. While Rugby Atralia acted the right manner and termated his posn, shows we have a long way to e before beg gay is accepted.
TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
Very few NFL players have e out as gay - Most of the openly gay NFL players did so after they stopped playg. We list 10 gay players here. * known gay afl players *
If beg gay don’t affect their performance (which clearly don’t), then why is somethg they should have to brg up the first place? While would be nice to live a world where people don’t bat an eyelid about beg gay, we’re not que there yet. While we have e a long way when to LGBT rights, we still have a long way to go towards equaly and breakg down barriers and there’s no way of predictg the effect of g out gay.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
In major league baseball only two players have publicly me out as gay other than that few of mor league players have done so. * known gay afl players *
6) Homophobic slurs. The biggt ncern for many gay athlet is how their teammat will see them.
RUMOUR GAY AFL PLAYERS
‘Known to their teammat’: Gay players the AFL ‘choosg not to be first’ out publicly * known gay afl players *
Many gay people fd hard enough g out to their immediate fay.
Breakg through gay stereotyp. If you want to ppot another reason that gay athlet are proment the media, ’s thanks to the gay stereotyp that are monplace society.
OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLERS
There is not a sgle openly gay footballer the top-flight male petn, and there never has been." name="scriptn * known gay afl players *
We have a huge anti-gay history behd , which is still very proment many different religns.
There’s the belief that gay men are weaker than straight men. “Gay is soft”. “Gay is weak”.
SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has revealed there are known gay male players the petn who are still reluctant to e out due to public prsure. * known gay afl players *
“Gay isn’t manly”.
It’s a giant barrier standg the way for many of our gay athlet. In 2019, Andy Brennan beme the first Atralian profsnal male footballer to e out as gay while still playg.
TOP 10 GAY NFL PLAYERS WHO ARE TLY INSPIRATNAL
“I’m gay, ” he wrote an say published by Profsnal Footballers Atralia, the players’ unn. Acrdg to Jack Vidgen, a star on Atralia’s “I’m A Celebry… Get Me Out Of Here”, he personally knows at least 10 or 12 AFL players who are gay.
THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
Support for gay AFL players. This support needs to e om ach, managers, fans, teammat, and society as a whole, but orr to get there, we need to end the discrimatn, excln, and stereotyp, so that beg gay be a non-issue. Once beg gay is no longer an issue, we will see more and more players g out.
None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that.
9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surroundg the players, not to nvce the rear that the athlet are gay. In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg. This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate.
‘I HAVE BEEN FIGHTG MY SEXUALY’: A-LEAGUE MEN PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY
In 2011, mors began swirlg that Selby was gay, or at least bi-cur. Curry however, is also known by some bee of the allegatns that he is gay. His ex-wife has acced him of beg gay and that Dunn’s lover om llege actually lived wh them for the first few years of their marriage.
The mors about him potentially beg gay have been gog on sce the early 2000s. This mor was that a member of the New York Mets was gay and people were speculatg that was Piazza.
‘I N UNRSTAND’: GAY PLAYERS THE AFL ‘CHOOSG NOT TO BE FIRST’ OUT PUBLICLY SAYS GILL MCLACHLAN
Qutns about Aikman's sexual orientatn have been around for s and the mor was started by Skip Bayls, when, his book, he stated that Troy Aikman might be gay.
The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly.
THE AFL’S GROWG PROBLEM WH VISIBILY OF GAY PLAYERS
16 and the first one to e out as gay while on an active roster. Over the years, Outsports has known of a few other players who are gay but have never e out, even when retired. The NFL Network produced a documentary on Smh beg gay.
Jenks is gay and this was the the first time he wily discsed his sexual orientatn. In June, Carl Nassib of the Rairs me out as gay.
ANDY BRENNAN IS FIRST MALE ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
Rumour: A Collgwood player is to bee the first openly gay AFL player.
SAM GILBERT, gay in.
It might not be a scriptor the St Kilda fenr ever expected, but, acrdg to Jason Ball (Atralian Football's first openly gay male player), the scriptn is que, a 28-year-old centre half-back for Victorian untry club Yarra Glen, explaed how highly Gilbert is thought of by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and qutng (LGBTIQ) muny. "He's bee a gay in a way, " Ball said of the veteran Sats fenr. "It sent a msage to other people the sportg world that sayg no to homophobia don't make you ls of a man.
AFL'S EQUALY EFFORTS NTUE, BUT DIFFICULTI FOR GAY PLAYERS REMA
"I me to unrstand a lot of the homophobic language and behavur wasn't g om a place of hatred towards me or gay people, but rather jt ignorance and not knowg the impact on me, " Ball said.