Gay cricketers won’t e out until 'stigma' is knocked for six, Sam Schofield has warned the England and Wal Cricket Board.
Contents:
- ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY
- GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED
- THE BABY WAS BORN TO A GAY UPLE ATRALIAN CRICKET
- HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
- CRICKETER BEN STOK MOCKED GAY UPLE BEFORE FIGHT, JURY HEARS
ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY
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The all-rounr had won the Man of the Match award the 2015 World Cup fal which Atralia had won by beatg New Zealand by 7 many sportspersons have e out the open the past revealg their gay inty, the number of such stanc cricket, pecially the men’s sectn, has been srce.
GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED
In 2011, former England ternatnal Steven Davi beme the sport’s first active profsnal player to announce that he is gay. Although Sciver me out to her fay weeks before she and Bnt began datg, she has also stggled wh ternalized homophobia, avoidg discsns and hidg her engagement rg to not reveal her same-sex relatnship. Cricketer Steve Davi is the first and only English male pro to e out as gay.
Gay cricket ach and activist Sam Schofield has cricised the England and Wal Cricket Board (ECB) for “lettg down” the LGBTQ+ muny. After Jake Daniels beme England’s first pro male footballer to e out as gay more than three s, Schofield spoke of the need for more LGBTQ+ role mols cricket. Comparatively, the women’s divisn has players like Natalie Sciver and Kathere Bnt, an openly gay cricketer uple.
THE BABY WAS BORN TO A GAY UPLE ATRALIAN CRICKET
Sydney: A baby boy was born to a gay uple on the Atralian women’s cricket team.
HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg, 50, played five Tts and 11 one-day ternatnals for the Black Caps between 1994 and 1997 and was known as an timidatg, if nsistent, pace s after his Tt but, Davis publicly revealed his sexualy for the first time, an episo of the documentary seri Scratched: Aotearoa’s Lost Sportg first ternatnal male cricketer to e out publicly was the former England wicketkeeper Steven Davi was durg Davis’s first tour to England 1994 when he started to really disver himself, he told The Spoff, though he had told his mother at an early age he was gay. ”He gused some of his teammat knew he was gay before he told a uple of them 1997 but he was never qutned about .
“I certaly wasn’t livg a gay life, wasn’t part of the scene, didn’t have a partner. There was nothg to tie to, if you know what I mean, ” Davis entered his first gay relatnship when he was 27 years old, while playg for Wellgton, but he was reluctant to appear public as a uple.
CRICKETER BEN STOK MOCKED GAY UPLE BEFORE FIGHT, JURY HEARS
When an offer of a ntract me om Auckland, Davis saw an opportuny to move away om the cy he did not felt fortable beg out the uple ma the move to Auckland, Davis told his new team’s manager he was gay, which was passed on to his team members and “didn’t seem to be that big an issue” is now on a new journey – one that exists tensn wh his sexualy.