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Contents:

• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
• TT CRICKETER HEATH DAVIS BRAVELY OUT AS GAY AGED 50 AFTER ‘REPRSG ’ FOR S
• JASON ALEXANR: CRICKET IS GAY
• E GAY: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE OPENG BATTER TO MISS START OF SEASON AFTER KNEE SURGERY
• JIMY CRICKET! DISNEY GO GAY
• CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'
• JASON ALEXANR APOLOGIZ FOR CALLG CRICKET A ‘GAY GAME’
• GAY CRICKET STAR ALEX BLACKWELL SAYS SHE’S TIRED OF LBIANS SPORT BEG ‘PROFILED AS PREDATORS’
• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
• BY PHILIPPS REVEALS HER 12-YEAR-OLD CHILD BIRDIE IS GAY, PREFERS THEY/THEM PRONOUNS

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.

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.

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

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. ”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. Schutt said men are attacked more for beg gay.

JASON ALEXANR: CRICKET IS 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. 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. I wasn’t leadg a gay life.

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

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.

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.

JIMY CRICKET! DISNEY GO GAY

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

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

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

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? 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.

JASON ALEXANR APOLOGIZ FOR CALLG CRICKET A ‘GAY GAME’

Meanwhile, across large parts of the cricketg world, homosexualy is illegal.

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.

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

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.

Teammat love: England’s Natalie Sciver and Kathere Bnt are engaged***“There’s nothg wrong wh beg gay”When Joe Root pulled Wt Indian fast bowler Shannon Gabriel up for homophobic language durg the St Lucia Tt 2019, felt like a watershed moment for Christopher Sherwood, a member of the Grac CC – the world’s first gay cricket club. “It felt very important as a perfect example of how to rpond to sual homophobia and a great example of role mollg, as historilly people may have feared speakg out as they uld be perceived as potentially homosexual.

What did is empower other straight men to stand up for homosexual men. He was sanctned unr the player of nduct but, later 2019, the ICC pulled all s anti-discrimatn legislatn to one anti-discrimatn which specifilly prohibs a wi range of behavur, cludg homophobia.

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

Cricket always felt like my people, we’re all cut om a siar cloth… We’re not all gay but we’re ntually on a qut to unrstand each other, takg the time to unrstand difference. ”***People sometim ask Christopher Sherwood why, the 21st century, there is the need for a gay cricket club the UK.

“There are long held stereotyp agast gay men society and we are there to change perceptns. Facebook advertisg n be very specific and we targeted those who had shown an tert cricket and homosexualy, and we got a whole lot of ments that were exprsly homophobic:‘WTF is gog on this world. ’ Gettg to ele-level sport is not easy; beg gay and feelg like an outsir might make that much more difficult.

In 2010, Jam Anrson posed naked Attu magaze, followg the bare feet of Vnie Jon, David Beckham, Ben Cohen, Freddie Ljungberg and Gareth Febary 2011, Steven Davi, of England and Surrey (now Somerset), revealed that he was gay an terview wh the Daily Telegraph.

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

(Prev to him there was Alan Hansford, who played for Ssex between 1989 and 1992, and who revealed he was gay ep to retirement, and Gee Cecil Iv, who played one match for MCC 1902, had a flg wh Lord Aled Douglas, and worked to reform the law for gay people.

” But also brought an avalanche of terrible homophobia. Anyone nsirg g out might well have had a quick glance at the ments sectn and thought better of Cowen, an ECB media manager who works largely women’s cricket, and who is himself gay, n unrstand any reluctance.

“If a big-name gay player who had an IPL ntract me out, I don’t thk would affect their reer and earngs, but I’m sure would rema an credibly difficult thg to do. There is somethg very nice that we have an openly gay men’s player unty cricket and don’t have to be what f him as a person, jt as beg straight don’t fe other people. Unsurprisgly, she was irrated when, wh a few months of Christmas 2019, Marc Stois and Jam Pattson were both sanctned for homophobic slurs.