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Contents:

• A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE
• FOOTBALLERS HAVE E OUT AS GAY TO TEAMMAT BUT FEAR PUBLIC BACKLASH, SAYS ENI ALO
• 20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS
• IN FOC: WHY ARE GAY WOMEN OVER-REPRENTED FOOTBALL?
• WHY ARE MORE FEMALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL THAN MALE PLAYERS?

A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE

Wele to the gayt league all of women’s ternatnal sports, or so I believe: the premier league. While makg my WNBA list and NWSL list, there are about double as many nfirmed straight people as there are nfirmed gay people a league, wh the rt beg unnfirmed eher directn. However, the Premier League, if you aren’t nfirmed gay, you’re probably jt an unknown, bee there were veryyy few nfirmed straight players.

Wh 9 out gay players on the team, there’s no shortage of players and drama to root for. Wh four out gay players on the team, this ranks the middle for gayns, but closer to the top for ter-team romanc, wh Julia Zigtti Olme and Emma Kullberg beg publilly together. If you’re a Leicter fan, I hate to break to you but this is the least gay team the league- at least publicly.

The two out gay players aren’t even datg each other!

FOOTBALLERS HAVE E OUT AS GAY TO TEAMMAT BUT FEAR PUBLIC BACKLASH, SAYS ENI ALO

Liverpool players Yana Daniels and Jasme Matthews are datg, and the other two out gay players are also public relatnships wh cute uple photos on their stagrams! I hontly don’t know anythg about this team, but there’s a lot of gay players and seems like a fun team to cheer for.

Among them are 40 out gay, lbian and bisexual women — 38 players, one ach and a traer.

It’s likely there are more lbian and bisexual women on the teams than we know about, pecially sce some participatg untri — like Nigeria, Cameroon and Jamai punish homosexualy wh prison time — and other untri still stggle wh varyg gre of societal homophobia that may keep players closeted. “Go gays!

20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS

You n’t w a champnship whout gays on your team – ’s never been done before, ever. Rapoe peted for her untry last summer, durg Pri month, along wh the 39 other proudly gay players the year on om that glor Women’s World Cup, and physil Pri events may be ncelled, but the protts and gathergs have moved onle. The very prence of such loud, toxic and aggrsive homophobic language rerc the ia that homosexualy is not tolerated the spac.

We need to live a footballg world where the utterance of homophobic slurs rults the banishment of the utterer. The Flyg Bats, Nutmegs, Dyke Soccer, Football v Homophobia and Soho FC are great acunts to follow. ”The -print of the Feratn of Gay Gam (FGG), Joanie Evans.

IN FOC: WHY ARE GAY WOMEN OVER-REPRENTED FOOTBALL?

Joanie EvansThe 57-year-old Law Centre worker and Leeds fan is -print of the Feratn of Gay Gam (FGG), founr member/player/ach and manager of Hackney Women’s FC (HWFC), and a former -print of the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Football Associatn (IGLFA). On the male si, the perceptn still is that gay mal don’t play football. I’ve not endured homophobia women’s football, but I have had transphobia om opposn players, ach, even refere.

WHY ARE MORE FEMALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLERS OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL THAN MALE PLAYERS?

I’m pleased that, creasgly, the football muny is policg self, and needs to bee unacceptable to e homo/bi/transphobic language football spac.

If you ever hear any homophobic abe, stand up and ll out.

Oli CowlgLydia GartThe photographer is part of Wonrkid FC, a queer-clive team based Hackney, born of the film Wonrkid by Rhys Chapman, a 2016 short film about a gay male footballer facg homophobia the Premier League. “Origally, Pri began as a prott, an uprisg om different groups – trans women of lour, gay men, butch lbians – and Pri needs to ntue to be a prott. Direct actn needs to be taken at senr levels (om football associatns, club owners, managers, and ach) to drive clivy as standard practice and addrs the systemic homophobia and racism that exists wh profsnal football.