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Contents:

• GAY FOOTBALLER JAKE WILLIAMSON ‘CUT OFF’ BY MEMBERS OF HIS TEAM AFTER G OUT
• BROTHER OF GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO HAD NEVER SEEN HIS ‘BIG SE’ UNTIL HISTORIC G OUT
• GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS WORLD CUP SHOULDN’T BE GOG TO QATAR, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
• TED LASSO NFIRMS GAY FOOTBALLER CHARACTER
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• GAY PRO-FOOTBALLER ZANR MURRAY SPEAKS NDIDLY ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA SPORT: ‘YOU LOSE A GAME AND FANS GO FOR THE JUGULAR’
• JT FASHANU MURAL UNVEILED NORWICH TO HONOUR LATE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER
• FOOTBALLRS GAYS : PRéPAREZ-VO à S RéVéLATNS

GAY FOOTBALLER JAKE WILLIAMSON ‘CUT OFF’ BY MEMBERS OF HIS TEAM AFTER G OUT

“I then experienced homophobia for the first time, ” Jake shared.

BROTHER OF GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO HAD NEVER SEEN HIS ‘BIG SE’ UNTIL HISTORIC G OUT

Publicly gay footballer Jake Williamson shared he was “angry” and “upset” when members of his team isolated him after he me out. The semi-profsnal footballer was playg a Sunday football league Birmgham when he shared his experience of beg a gay footballer on the BBC’s LGBT Sports Podst 2021.

“I then experienced homophobia for the first time, ” he told PkNews of feelg “shut out. “I’ve played football for 20 years and I’m yet to meet an actively gay football player or manager, ” Jake says. He explas the footballers at top clubs have gone through a trag system where there are no publicly gay people.

GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS WORLD CUP SHOULDN’T BE GOG TO QATAR, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL

Gay sportsmen.

TED LASSO NFIRMS GAY FOOTBALLER CHARACTER

Homophobia sport. Josh Cavallo, the only openly gay top-tier profsnal footballer the world, has revealed his brother had never seen him sg as big before his historic g. Atralian footballer Josh Cavallo, who me out publicly as gay October, appears on the ver of the Attu 101 issue.

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

World's only openly gay active pro footballer is ncerned for LGBTQ muny ahead of Qatar 2022.

It has been almost a year sce Josh Cavallo announced he is gay, but even now he still stggl to prehend the far-reachg impact his announcement has had – pecially as he has begun to speak out on major issu, notably the Qatar World Cup. A year on, Cavallo remas the only openly gay top-flight male footballer the world – he plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A League – but his cisn spired Jake Daniels, a forward for English send divisn club Blackpool, to e out May of this year. “It was jt the uncertaty, seeg that there was no active gay footballer that’s e out before and there was no plan wh , ” he rells.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

Fashanu beme the first openly gay profsnal footballer after g out 1990 while playg the English top flight, but the backlash he suffered eventually led him to take his own life eight years later. “It is so great to be gay.

Earlier this month, former Spa ternatnals Iker Casillas and Carl Puyol were wily cricized after the former posted a tweet claimg he was gay. In a now leted post on his official Twter acunt, Casillas wrote: “I hope I’ll be rpected: I’m gay. Cavallo says the exchange between Casillas and Puyol prov football still has “got a long way to go” to eradite homophobia, even if the sport has recently ma steps the right directn.

A character the Apple TV+ seri, Ted Lasso, has been nfirmed to be gay. The lack of proment gay footballers at the top level of the game has been a topic for bate. In October 2021 Atralian Josh Cavallo beme the first active player to e out as gay.

GAY PRO-FOOTBALLER ZANR MURRAY SPEAKS NDIDLY ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA SPORT: ‘YOU LOSE A GAME AND FANS GO FOR THE JUGULAR’

Subsequently, he was followed by Jake Daniels and Zanr Murray g out as gay 2022. For years there has been speculatn about gay footballers the Premier League. Although, former England player R Ferdand told Attu last year that the “wchhunt” for a gay Premier League player was the wrong way to unter homophobia football.

JT FASHANU MURAL UNVEILED NORWICH TO HONOUR LATE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER

The Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has end s of silence wh men’s football to bee the first player the UK to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990. Photograph: Pl Dennis/TGS Photo/ShutterstockDaniels’s revelatn is a strikg landmark that when men’s football is more engaged wh social issu than any recent time, but still unable to ce progrs LGBTQ reprentatn wh the year Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo beme the only male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay, but others are yet to follow.

In six months the men’s World Cup will be played Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, and Cavallo revealed to the Guardian he would be “sred” to play at the tournament, the pnacle of world English football specifilly, the shadow of the talented and unfulfilled Fashanu still lgers over the game. The England ternatnal me out at the end of his reer and was to take his own life eight years later, Fashanu, Jt’s niece, who ns a charable foundatn his name, said that Daniels’s cisn would “e as a huge fort to the many footballers at all levels of the game still secretly livg as gay and who still feel unable to e out”. Football, like any other game, also has many gay players.

FOOTBALLRS GAYS : PRéPAREZ-VO à S RéVéLATNS

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.

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.