Two Premier League players ' relatnship' and open wh teammat about beg gay

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• GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER 'VERY LIKELY' TO E OUT NEXT YEAR, SAYS JT FASHANU'S NIECE
• GARY LEKER SAYS HE KNOWS TWO GAY PREMIER LEAGUE STARS AND HOP THEY WILL E OUT AT QATAR WORLD CUP
• TWO PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS ' RELATNSHIP' AND OPEN WH TEAMMAT ABOUT BEG GAY
• GAY PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS: PL PLAYERS MOURED TO BE GAY
• GAY PL PLAYER PENS OPEN LETTER, SAYS TEAM OR MANAGER 'WOULDN'T UNRSTAND' HIS SEXUALY
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• RUMOUR: FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER LEAGUE AND ENGLAND STAR TO COME OUT ON SUNDAY
• GAY MALE POOL PLAYERS
• 'IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME FOR THIS:' BRYAN RUBY BE ONLY ACTIVE PRO BASEBALL PLAYER TO BE OUT AS GAY
• EX-ENGLAND AND PREMIER LEAGUE STAR 'NSIRG' G OUT AS GAY ON TV DOCUMENTARY
• HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN
• OPENLY GAY PLAYERS
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS
• GLENN BURKE: MLB’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER 'VERY LIKELY' TO E OUT NEXT YEAR, SAYS JT FASHANU'S NIECE

Gary Leker has claimed he knows two gay Premier League footballers and said would be "amazg" if they chose to e out durg the Qatar World Cup to send a strong msage to the host natn, where homosexualy remas a former England striker and TV prenter told the Daily Mirror the players had been "very close" to g out before now.

On Thursday, Qatar's World Cup chief Nasser Al Khater sought to give assuranc to LGBTQ+ fans that they would be weled at the tournamentWhile Qatar is not prepared to change anti-LGBTQ+ laws to rpond to ncerns of visg fans, he has sisted none will be discrimated agast durg the 29-day tournament and that gay fans will be allowed to hold hands. Wh the Qatar World Cup startg next weekend, ntroversy already kicked off when Khalid Salman, an ambassador for the tournament, scribed homosexualy as "a damage the md" durg an terview wh German TV. Two Premier League players are a uple and have e out as gay to their teammat, but not yet, reports suggt the Premier League footballers qutn uld e out a documentary currently productn wh Channel follows Gary Leker recently claimg he was aware of two Premier League players who were thkg of g out as gay soon.

GARY LEKER SAYS HE KNOWS TWO GAY PREMIER LEAGUE STARS AND HOP THEY WILL E OUT AT QATAR WORLD CUP

Acrdg to multiple sourc, spe not yet publicly, two Premier League players are a relatnship and have e out as homosexual to their lleagu and teammat. The Premier League pair is aaid to officially e out even though management and owners are aware of their relatnship and they are upont about beg a homosexual uple the locker room. In a statement ma last month, former England striker Gary Leker claimed to have personally known two homosexual Premier League players.

A gay Premier League footballer has penned an open letter to his fans & team, openg up about the oral that he was facg for not disclosg his sexualy. A gay Premier League footballer has penned an open letter to his fans and his team, openg up about the oral that he was facg as a rult of not beg able to disclose his sexualy to his teammat. ” The unnamed player's letter me to light after the Jt Fashanu Foundatn, workg agast racism and homophobia football, revealed the letter to the media orr to highlight the stggl faced by such players.

Jt Fashanu foundatn is n by the late footballer's younger brother Amal, whose aim is to help footballers battlg racism and homophobia the UK. The prsure toward acceptg pri players baseball may be why homosexual players who e out as gay before or after retirement have a short reer. Later, terviewg wh SB natn outsports, he mentns hearg anti-gay slurs by teammat the locker room or gam felt like havg a knife the heart.

TWO PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS ' RELATNSHIP' AND OPEN WH TEAMMAT ABOUT BEG GAY

Sce 2016, no homophobic slur has been chanted for the first time, and looks like MLB is dog s bt to change the perspective toward homosexual players. As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards.

Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them. Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year. Take this wh a MASSIVE pch of salt…A ‘Freelance sports journalist and champagne enthiast’ by name of Jimmy has claimed the first openly gay Premier League football will e out an exclive The Sun on claims the player qutn featured for England on likely Jimmy is a shamels attentn seeker tryg to ga some notoriety, but speculatn is already rife on social media and Southampton’s teenage star Le Shaw, who ma his England but the 1-0 w over Denmark at Wembley, has nied he is the player qutn:.

There are currently no openly gay players the Premier League but former Aston Villa, Wt Ham and Everton star Thomas Hzlsperger recently me out, while England women’s pta Casey Stoney also revealed she was gay last ’s worth notg that England’s women also played on Wednday night but sce there is already an openly gay player the women’s Premier League, we should assume this tweet refers to the men’s ’t hold your breath though…. The owner of my pool hall is a vout (Ismaili) Mlim who actively seeks gay ctomers - partly at my urgg bee I thk they're an unr-urted market that n bee a loyal ctomer base. Yet 's Ruby's hidn part of his inty that he now believ n have the biggt impact, partially bee 's so foreign to the worlds of baseball and untry is a gay man, the only active profsnal baseball player at any level to be publicly out.

GAY PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS: PL PLAYERS MOURED TO BE GAY

" FOLLOW THE MONEY: MLB player salari and payrolls for every major league teamHis g out follows a summer which Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib and Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop also me out as gay. “As a untry mic songwrer, at first I thought beg gay was a huge weakns, ” said Ruby, who will be showsed the upg documentary, "Out Nashville.

GAY PL PLAYER PENS OPEN LETTER, SAYS TEAM OR MANAGER 'WOULDN'T UNRSTAND' HIS SEXUALY

"It's not all super rosy, " Ruby ach om past generatns have been subtly homophobic, urgg him to keep his sexual orientatn a secret or to be wh a woman to keep up a ont.

Gehrig Richs, the Volno' assistant ach, said he imag teammat beg protective of Ruby if gay slurs were to persist once he's out publicly.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

The programme is reportedly the works and would foc on the stori of gay profsnal footballers om the past and prent and let them tell their storiThe former Premier League star has been talks wh producers over potentially featurg a documentary about gay footballers A former England ternatnal and Premier League star is reportedly ' talks' wh televisn producers over the prospect of g out a new tv documentary about gay profsnal footballers. The news jt days after Blackpool star Jake Daniels bravely beme the first active player to e out as gay the English top-flight more than 30 years - the last beg the late Jt Fashanu.

The former Manchter Uned star went on: "What he has jt done tonight tak credible urage - we have both been drsg rooms for many many years and that would seem unthkable to announce that you are gay and I n't image how difficult has been really. It still shocks me that over the past 30 years or so, there are no active publicly gay footballers playg the Premier League / Top profsnal Leagu. Wh all the homophobic ments social media whenever clubs change their logos to a rabow pattern or when the Rabow Lac mpaign receivg homophobic ments, my heart breaks to see how homophobic the football world n be.

RUMOUR: FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER LEAGUE AND ENGLAND STAR TO COME OUT ON SUNDAY

I feel like growg up, havg publicly gay footballers makg the top leagu would be a great role mol for LGBTQ+ football lovers, I hope some n e out soon (of urse, whenever they feel fortable to).

Of urse, as I expected, there are some extremely homophobic and hateful ments but I’ve learnt to ignore them jt like the ments unr every Rabow Lac mpaign over the years. (Cant believe I need to say this but), Beg gay / LGBTQ+ do not mean that our whole liv are around sex and “ the bedroom”, we jt happen to be attracted to another genr and thats totally fe, so how about you go try and acknowledge this unbelievable fact?

GAY MALE POOL PLAYERS

I don’t wish the hostily I felt on anyone, bee not everyone n survive homophobia a sport like football, ” he told MambaOnle recently. In May 2022, Jake Daniels me out at the age of 17  an open letter on the Blackpool Football Club’s webse, beg at that time the UK’s only openly gay active male profsnal footballer. He also acknowledged that “beg gay, or bi or queer men’s football is still a taboo” and that he is likely to face some gree of homophobia the sport.

After stgglg wh his sexualy for years, he me as gay September 2022, makg him the first openly gay player Sttish football sce Jt Fashanu. He om a football fay, was a standout at Penn State and has tght his teammat about personal Miller/Getty ImagPublished June 22, 2021Updated June 25, 2021Las Vegas Rairs fensive leman Carl Nassib walked outsi his home Wt Chter, Pa., looked directly to his phone and did somethg that he said he hoped would one day no longer be a few brief sentenc, the 28-year-old Nassib me out as gay.

L., his ach and his peers the league for their rpect and acceptance, and acknowledged that many gay people before him did not receive that same support. Personally, I feel that society has progrsed enough that they would be appld, and any homophobic chants om the stands would, for the most part, get shouted down and would quickly bee unacceptable - the same way that if fans were openly chantg racist thgs to black players, they would get shut down by other fans.

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

Sayg that, I am neher gay nor black - so I may be well off the mark terms of how far we've e as a society on the issu and how they affect people.

Not jt om our untry, lns of people om untri where homosexualy is still illegal and punishable follow the Premier League and European football, and they're active on social media. Many people have relativ or iends who are homosexual so I thk would be appld by the majory and the olr generatn who likely disapprove are too long the tooth to boo that suatn.

Football v Homophobia hosted the ‘Behd the Headle’ event wh Sports Media LGBT+ founr Jon Holm and Football Wrers’ Associatn chair Carrie Brown. Thornton shared he felt a big rponsibily to his olr brother who is gay bee "he had a tough time growg up" and didn’t want anyone else to experience the same issu his brother had. “It has been que a crazy year, ” he told Sky Sports, the terview that ma him the UK’s only openly gay active male profsnal footballer.

EX-ENGLAND AND PREMIER LEAGUE STAR 'NSIRG' G OUT AS GAY ON TV DOCUMENTARY

Insir is highlightg out and proud athlet honor of the annual celebratn of those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and morn-day stars like USWNT pta Megan Rapoe and WNBA legend, Diana Trasi, are NBA player Jason Pl Colls, former NFL nng back David Kopay, and tennis in Billie Jean Kg were trailblazers their rpective sports.

Longtime NFL offensive leman Ryan O'Callaghan me out as gay publicly 2017 via a story for Outsports and revealed that he had long planned to kill himself once his football reer was over.

Jason Pl Colls spent 13 seasons the NBA and, after g out 2013, beme the first out gay athlete actively playg any of the four major North Amerin pro sports leagu. Olympic skater Adam Rippon ma history as the first out gay man to jo Team USA for a wter Olympics and, Pyeongchang, he beme the first to w a medal at the Gam.

HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS

Acrdg to rearch fdgs, football supporters would like to see homophobia elimated, believe the FA is not dog enough to addrs the issue, and would feel at ease if a member of their team me out as gay. Homosexual male players football historyHere is a list of the profsnal male footballers who me out public and announced their homosexualy. Uned and Mnota Uned FC Major League Soccer, and for Richmond Kickers and Hartford Athletic the Uned Football me out as gay June 2018, makg him the only out man any of the big five Amerin sports leagu or any top-divisn profsnal men's natnal soccer, 26, shared the news on Twter, notg he had been openly gay to his iends and fay for years, but never on such a large platform.

'Mart's announcement ma him one of only two openly gay players Major League Soccer - the other beg Robbie Rogers, who retired shortly after his announcement but me back to play Tto was the first player to e out as a gay man, makg the announcement shortly after his retirement said his cisn to e out on an ternatnal stage was ma 'much easier' by the 'kdns and acceptance' om his fellow players. He released a book named “Comg Out to Play” announced his retirement and sexualy wh a 408-word post on his personal blog, which Rogers wrote, "I'm a soccer player, I'm Christian, and I'm gay. Daily Mail has scribed Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the send active profsnal football player to e out, after English footballer Jt Fashanu 1990.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN

At the Stockholm Pri, he livered a speech nouncg sports homophobia and laid to rt his 2001 airport stated that, "I know that many LGBT people have been the victims of asslts and hate crim. Cint had been blown out of proportn the orr to fally flh the Frankfurt Airport punch down the toilet: is not the se that I beat up a gay person. "While Germany as a untry has noticeably bee more and more relaxed about homosexualy recent years, he had also noted there was an unhelpful media obssn wh fdg the first gay footballer.

OPENLY GAY PLAYERS

All sorts of well-tend but ultimately unhelpful terventns om heterosexual players – who eher oped that gay players would benef om g out or utned agast – did not exactly fill him wh nfince that this was ed the right former ternatnal, who played the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Champnship, matas that he did not have to lie about his sexualy and that teammat eventually stopped askg about his lack of a girliend. After partg Grimsby Town, Liam went onto play for Selby Town, Brigg Town, Gasborough Try, and most recently Cleethorp Town, who he reprented the 2017 FA Vase Fal at January 2014 Davis bee the UKs hight profile openly gay December 2017, Davis publicly cricized ments ma by FA chairman Greg Clarke that "profsnal players who out themselv as homosexual would be takg a risk. "Davis urged other homosexual soccer players to e out publicly and not fear a 32-year-old has spoken out enuragg male gay footballers not to worry about g out, sharg his own experienc as part of Uefa’s Equal Game mpaign, to foster greater cln and diversy the midfielr admted receivg abe om opponents, but sists football’s attus to homosexualy are creasgly UrbanMarc Urban, born 4 Augt 1971, is a former German football player.

He has spoken publicly about the difficulti that gay footballers’ experience and he is now a spokperson and mpaigner on diversy issu sport and the was sent to a sports boardg school at age 13 and played for the natnal youth teams the 1990s before settlg at send divisn club Rot-Weiss Erfurt.

He is now on the board of You Can Play, an anizatn dited to the fight agast homophobia PterPter liv Balham wh his hband Alan and works as an assistant manager at Boots. He was appoted as a Member of the Orr of the Brish Empire bee of his work batg realized at the age of 10 that he was gay, and alt wh homophobic abe om his schoolmat. While playg for his lol club, Pter suffered homophobia om other players and was dropped om the first team to the fourth team after one of his teammat found out that he was gay.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS

It was later announced that he had e out as gay, and that he qu football as a rult of what he scribed as wispread homophobia the football muny.

Berlg's se was ced several tim the upg years, as the nnectn between homophobia and sport was discsed the natnal media now and FashanuJt Soni Fashanu (19 Febary 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for var clubs between 1978 and 1997. Acrdg to his suici note, fearg he would not get a fair trial bee of his homosexualy, he fled to England where he killed himself London May 1998.

“I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the fensive leman for the Las Vegas Rairs said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt Monday. And while someone g out 2021 might not feel like a big al, wh that simple statement, Nassib beme the first openly gay active player NFL that simple statement, Nassib beme the first openly gay active player NFL history. Though there are many openly queer women profsnal sports, the same nnot be said for homophobia of men’s sports culture has been well documented.

GLENN BURKE: MLB’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

Currently, there is only one openly gay player on a profsnal men’s team the “big five” Amerin sports: Soccer player Coll Mart of the USL Champnship League (Mart me out 2018 as a member of Major League Soccer’s Mnota Uned) NFL has existed for 101 years, and that time, there has never been a player on an active NFL roster who has publicly acknowledged his gayns.

To be a gay man is to face beg stereotyped as weak or effemate — the oppose of what a football player, or an athlete, is “supposed” to be. ” Davis remembers spendg $1, 500 at a strip club an attempt to nceal the fact that he was gay om his spe society’s evolvg attus, the sports world seems to be movg far slower to mornize and stigmatize. Though he didn’t officially “e out” to the media until after his playg days were over, Burke was fairly open about his homosexualy durg his time the majors, somethg which ultimately proved extremely trimental to his reer.

While none of his Dodgers teammat seemed to have an issue wh him beg gay— fact, Burke may have been the most well-liked player on the 1977 NL Champnship-wng LA squad—skipper Tom Lasorda (whose son was close iends wh Glenn) and the team’s ont office were far ls acceptg of his orientatn.