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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 gay * cricket 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. 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. Photograph: supplied by Heath DavisAn ternatnal study on homophobia sport, released May, revealed that New Zealand gay and bisexual men were the most likely to keep their sexualy secret both youth and adult sports, wh many sayg they feared bullyg om teammat and discrimatn om ach and than half of all participants believed team sport is more homophobic than the rt of New Zealand society, while gay men were much more likely to believe this (69%) than anyone Wellgton Firebirds player, Stephen Mather, said Davis told him about his sexualy 1997, when there were no other outwardly gay men playg first class cricket at that time.

TT CRICKETER HEATH DAVIS BRAVELY OUT AS GAY AGED 50 AFTER ‘REPRSG ’ FOR S

Former New Zealand cricketer Heath Davis out as gay and discs the lonels he faced while “reprsg” his sexualy for years. * cricket gay *

”Homophobic attus sport still very much exist, said Malee Chapman, The Spoff’s edor and producer of the documentary seri.

Sydney: A fe swg bowler for Atralia's women's cricket team and a champn of same-sex marriage, Megan Schutt is upset wh her male unterparts Jam Pattson and Marc Stois' recent homophobic slurs.

She wants men to be more receptive towards homosexualy as they are "attacked" more for beg gay. She was asked about the recent cints which two Atralian players, Pattson and Stois, were sanctned for homophobic slurs on the field. It's disappotg that we still e that language, and I don't believe that those boys actually are homophobic, I tly don't.

JASON ALEXANR: CRICKET IS GAY

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Schutt said men are attacked more for beg gay. "I haven't been attacked for beg a lbian but I know men that have been for beg gay.

"And the fact that 's always men that are still g those rogatory terms is the most disappotg part of bee they're gog to have gay iends, whether they're out to them or not.

E GAY: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE OPENG BATTER TO MISS START OF SEASON AFTER KNEE SURGERY

Tanya Aldred nsirs why there's jt one openly gay male cricketer England, and looked to the women’s game for an acceptg environment. * cricket gay *

Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis is the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly e out as gay. Former New Zealand cricketer Heath Davis has e out as gay and revealed the lonels he faced “reprsg” his sexualy for years. He is New Zealand’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly e out as gay.

JIMY CRICKET! DISNEY GO GAY

The gay cricket star is phg back agast dangero perceptns of lbian athlet. * cricket gay *

I wasn’t leadg a gay life. Davis shared how everyone on the Auckland team knew he was gay, and he felt like “didn’t seem to be that big of an issue”.

He said there were no other out gay men playg first-class cricket at the time, and he said there were some “pretty old-school attus” cricket back then. Former England wicket-keeper Steven Davi beme the first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly e out as gay 2011. E Gay has been wh Northamptonshire sce the age of 15Northamptonshire openg batter E Gay will miss the start of the 2023 County Champnship season after havg knee missed Northants' pre-season South Ai tour after feelg disfort durg a trag ssn.

"Gay had a cent summer 2022, makg 825 ns 14 County Champnship Divisn One match, also htg a further 332 the One-Day Cup.

CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'

Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg gay * cricket gay *

If you'd have said 'I'm a gay man', you'd never have got selected. "It was only after movg to the UK and hearg about Grac that Modi felt able to rencile his inti as a gay man and a cricket lover.

"He's my hero and has accepted me, and now I'm a proud gay man.

JASON ALEXANR APOLOGIZ FOR CALLG CRICKET A ‘GAY GAME’

Across sport generally, events such as the Gay Gam and EuroGam have been providg LGBTQ+ athlet wh a space to pete for years.

GAY CRICKET STAR ALEX BLACKWELL SAYS SHE’S TIRED OF LBIANS SPORT BEG ‘PROFILED AS PREDATORS’

The folks who gave Mickey Moe and Goofy have cid ’s time for your children to enjoy same-sex romance while they slurp down their F jt broadst their very first gay rtoon happened durg the send season of “Star vs The Forc of Evil, ” a rtoon broadst on Disney dience scene shows two guys kissg and a later scene show two ladi sharg an timate here to get Todd’s newt book – hated by liberals, but loved by plorabl! Disney is earng aclas for diversy and clivy among the LGBTQIA ’s also word the upg live-actn versn of "Bety and the Beast" will clu a gay storyle – between LeFou and Gaston. “It is a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie, ” Condon ’s pro-gay activism has lots of moms and dads across the ued pla wonrg what the name of Superliagilisticexpialidoc is gog on?

HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY

As part of Wisn Cricket Monthly’s seri on cricket’s diversy problem, Tanya Aldred nsir why the number of openly gay male profsnal cricketers England still stands at one, and looked to the women’s game for a more acceptg published issue 38 of Wisn Cricket MonthlyThe long reach of Covid’s cel fgers means that next year’s Sydney Gay Pri will shuffle and shimmer away om s faiar lotn on Oxford Street. Meanwhile, across large parts of the cricketg world, homosexualy is illegal.

BY PHILIPPS REVEALS HER 12-YEAR-OLD CHILD BIRDIE IS GAY, PREFERS THEY/THEM PRONOUNS

In Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Domi, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, while male homosexualy is prohibed Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, St Kts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vcent and the Grenad, Zimbabwe, Banglash and Pakistan. Not fettg Pakistan’s home om home recent years and the hosts of this year’s IPL, the UAE, where the maximum penalty for homosexualy is ath, as is the game n swg so far between acceptance and nmnatn is no real surprise.

Chuck a knuckle ball of hyper-masculy to the mix, an tense team environment and, tradnally, largely male mentary and spectators, and you create a place where is difficult to be different, let alone gay. Jt recent years, South Ai’s Marizanne Kapp and Dane van Niekerk and New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwae and Lea Tahuhu have married, while Atralians Elyse Villani and Nila Carey and Rachael Hayn and Leah Poulton pose happily together on the red, for gay cricketers of eher sex, the path to acceptance is strewn wh hazards.

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