The Lester scm-half has thanked his ach and teammat for their ‘unbelievable’ support after g out as gay
Contents:
- LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
- GAY PRO GBY PLAYER SPIRED TO E OUT BY LOVE OF HIS BOYIEND
- GAY GBY PLAYER TEXAS SHAR HIS PRI VIO TO SPIRE OTHERS TO LOVE THEMSELV
- U.S. PRO GBY PLAYER DEV IBAñEZ OUT AS GAY
- HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT
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The Lester scm-half Nick McCarthy has e out as gay, and thanked ach Leo Cullen and Stuart Lanster for their “unbelievable” support. I need to accept beg gay myself before I uld addrs wh others.
Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho/ShutterstockFellow Lester player Dunne revealed his bisexualy last year, around the same time Nassib announced he was gay and a few months before Atralian Cavallo ma headl across the world by sharg his news.
Last month, Blackpool’s Jake Daniels beme the first UK-based male footballer to e out as gay sce 1990. First Openly Gay Major League Rugby PlayerProfsnal gby player, ach and LGBTQ+ sports ambassador. English gby player Pl Doran-Jon is the latt straight athlete to appear naked the Brish gay magaze Attu and the latt to say that gay teammat will be embraced if they e out.
GAY PRO GBY PLAYER SPIRED TO E OUT BY LOVE OF HIS BOYIEND
Profsnal gay gby player, ach and LGBTQ+ sports ambassador * rugby gay twitter *
"Of urse there are loads of gay guys sport and when they are ready they will e out knowg 's all accepted, " Doran-Jon said. Doran-Jon lled openly gay gby player Gareth Thomas his hero and I admire how matter of fact he is on the subject.
It is amazg how we hear on a regular basis om straight athlet supportg a gay teammate. 29 and cid to e out publicly as gay. A month prr, my partner Ferg and I had created an Instagram acunt — thatgaygger — and I cid to fally share somethg I had long kept separate om my gby reer.
GAY GBY PLAYER TEXAS SHAR HIS PRI VIO TO SPIRE OTHERS TO LOVE THEMSELV
English gby player Pl Doran-Jon is the latt straight athlete to appear naked the Brish gay magaze Attu and the latt to say that gay teammat will be embraced if they e out. ... * rugby gay twitter *
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I say the words a 16-mute vio I did for FLOSports for Pri month, talkg about my journey as a gby player and gay man. He told me he was gay. Dev Ibañez, who played profsnally Major League Rugby, has e out as gay social media posts, sayg he has “cid to embrace what I once felt embarrassed of and be proudly and shamelsly myself.
He created his Instagram acunt yterday as “thatgaygger, ” sce he is one of the very few openly gay pro gby players, past or prent. I am openly gay. The fal goal beme “Once I sign a pro ntract I will be more vol and bee the first openly gay MLR [Major League Rugby] player.
U.S. PRO GBY PLAYER DEV IBAñEZ OUT AS GAY
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I had been separatg gby and my personal life/sexualy sce I was high school bee I didn’t wanna be known as “that gay gger”. I have met some credibly talented LGBTQ gby players over the years, many of whom were blackballed om playg a high level solely due to beg gay. As of now I am the only openly gay gby player to earn a ntract wh an MLR si (At least I haven’t heard of any others, would love to talk wh anyone who has.
So I will proudly ll myself “that gay gger” hop that one day won’t sound strange men’s gby. And bee I know that I am much more than jt that gay gby player, and more than jt someone obssed wh gby. But I have also found high level men’s gby to still be far om a welg place for gay gby players.
Here’s some pics of me and my partner livg our bt life together to make the homophob my iends list crge. But I am nfint the homophobia will be drowned out by the valu, love and support that the gby muny is built upon. Niamh LewisMar 1, 2021, 09:52 AM ETWhen Eammon Ashton-Atkson, an Atralian televisn reporter, cid to film his gby club as they went to the biannual Bgham Cup 2018, he uld never have imaged the posive reactn a documentary about would film Steelers is about London-based Kgs Cross Steelers, the world's first gay gby club and one of over 60 such sis world-wi.
HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
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LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
"It's a story about a gay gby club, but 's also a story about human stggle, and people g sport and their sense of muny to help each other, which is universal, " Ashton-Atkson told ESPN.
"She's got a certifite for the hight achg level, and sce she left the Steelers she's been nsistently overlooked and not even shortlisted [for jobs] than men who are ls qualified and ls experienced than her, which is heart-breakg and disgtg, " Ashton-Atkson beg gay 2021 wtern society is often unremarkable today, you don't have to go back very far to fd trmatic stori. "But, if 's easier to e out now, then why do we need gay gby clubs? "That's a thought that do go through your md, and while 's generally a posive there are still pockets of homophobia.