Carl Nassib is the first to ever play a down as openly gay, but the rt are still trailblazers.
Contents:
- WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?
- “I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
- RUMOUR GAY AFL PLAYERS
- SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY
- THE AFL’S GROWG PROBLEM WH VISIBILY OF GAY PLAYERS
WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?
* how many gay afl players *
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. 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?
“I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
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. 6) Homophobic slurs.
The biggt ncern for many gay athlet is how their teammat will see them.
RUMOUR 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.
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.
SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
“Gay is soft”.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY
“Gay is weak”. “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. “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 AFL’S GROWG PROBLEM WH VISIBILY OF GAY PLAYERS
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.
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.