Alai Uned midfielr Josh Cavallo hop more profsnal footballers will follow his lead and publicly announce that they're gay. Cavallo on Wednday beme a…
Contents:
- WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?
- SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
- “I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
- WHY IS AFL THE ONLY PRO SPORT TO NEVER HAVE AN OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER?
- THEY LL GAYFL - BUT THAT’S THE ONE THG IS NOT
- RUMOUR GAY AFL PLAYERS
- 'I'VE HAD TO MASK MY FEELGS': A-LEAGUE PLAYER OUT AS GAY EMOTNAL SOCIAL POSTS
- ‘NO WORDS’: GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO LLS OUT HOMOPHOBIC CROWD ABE
- THE AFL’S GROWG PROBLEM WH VISIBILY OF GAY PLAYERS
WHICH AFL PLAYERS ARE GAY?
Are there no gay men AFL footy, or are they fearful of speakg up? Soccer player Josh Cavallo’s g out this week re-pos this mystifyg qutn." name="scriptn * who is gay in afl *
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.
SAT BE 'GAY IN' AHEAD OF AFL'S GURAL PRI GAME
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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?
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.
“I KNOW 10 OR 12 GAY AFL PLAYERS” REVEALS JACK VIDGEN ON I’M A CELEB…
6) Homophobic slurs. The biggt ncern for many gay athlet is how their teammat will see them. 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. “Gay is soft”.
WHY IS AFL THE ONLY PRO SPORT TO NEVER HAVE AN OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER?
“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.
THEY LL GAYFL - BUT THAT’S THE ONE THG IS NOT
“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.
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. SAM GILBERT, gay in.
RUMOUR GAY AFL PLAYERS
It might not be a scriptor the St Kilda fenr ever expected, but, acrdg to Jason Ball (Atralian Football's first openly gay male player), the scriptn is que, a 28-year-old centre half-back for Victorian untry club Yarra Glen, explaed how highly Gilbert is thought of by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and qutng (LGBTIQ) muny.
"He's bee a gay in a way, " Ball said of the veteran Sats fenr. "It sent a msage to other people the sportg world that sayg no to homophobia don't make you ls of a man.
"I me to unrstand a lot of the homophobic language and behavur wasn't g om a place of hatred towards me or gay people, but rather jt ignorance and not knowg the impact on me, " Ball said. "Once I was out, that homophobic language fad.
'I'VE HAD TO MASK MY FEELGS': A-LEAGUE PLAYER OUT AS GAY EMOTNAL SOCIAL POSTS
"(They weren't) necsarily directed at me, but every time I would hear those words, felt like a remr if they found out I was gay, I wouldn't be accepted. "Ball was 12 when he realised he was gay. "Acrdg to the study Out On The Fields, which documented the experienc of gay, lbian and bisexual people team sports, 87 per cent of young gay Atralians felt pelled to hi their sexualy some hid his sexualy om his football club for many years, but he had ma a promise to himself he would not lie about if ever knew tryg to fabrite tal about experienc wh women would get him ught was openly gay while studyg at Melbourne Universy, so when an old school iend me to the football club, Ball's sexualy soon beme an open secret, although he remaed unaware others night after trag, while talkg to a teammate, the nversatn shifted and Ball was asked about his personal life.
He was able to proudly intify as a gay cisn to e out publicly was supported by Yarra Glen, which ntu to back Ball his 's experienc have shown him people are pable of change. "Gilbert believ the AFL is ready for s first openly gay player, but only when a person feels fortable enough to go down that path.
Rumour: A Collgwood player is to bee the first openly gay AFL player. 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. Vidgen, who ma a name for himself on Atralia’s Got Talent, was talkg about homosexualy sport wh former AFL stars Travis Vare and Robert “Dipper” DiPerdomeni.
‘NO WORDS’: GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO LLS OUT HOMOPHOBIC CROWD ABE
“I probably know about 10 or 12 footy players, I’d never say their name, that are gay but they wouldn’t e out, ” Vidgen said. 30pmFew people realise the men’s AFL is the only major profsnal male sport the world to never have had an openly gay or bisexual player, even after is why the cisn by the NFL’s Carl Nassib to e out as gay this week while still playg Amerin football ph Atralian football further off the crowd field of cln. Nassib may be the first active NFL player to e out, but he’s actually the 16th gay NFL player sce 1975 – that’s close to the same number of players on an AFL Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib me out this APThe total visibily of gay or bisexual AFL players be even more ncerng when you nsir the multiple gay and bisexual players basketball, ice hockey, baseball, gby unn, gby league, cricket, soccer, and smaller sports like curlg, hurlg and lacrosse.
I have studied homophobia sport for the past , cludg studi the AFL and 42 other sports at Monash Universy. Why has one of the world’s olst sports never had an openly gay player?
THE AFL’S GROWG PROBLEM WH VISIBILY OF GAY PLAYERS
However, ’s important to first rrect the mis-perceptn that homophobia is ls of a problem bee is assumed most players are gay. It also ters many girls, both straight and gay, om playg ntact sports like AFL or rearch has found between 15-20 per cent of female AFL players are not heterosexual.
Visibily is clearly important, particularly to children, but the visibily of male AFL players is a symptom of ser a problem that has long been ignored by the AFL and other erng is extensive evince om Atralia and overseas that gay and bisexual children, as well as heterosexual youth, are beg harmed by systemic homophobic behavurs muny and school sport settgs. Gay and bisexual boys play sport at half the rate of their peers.