14 gay sportg stars who took the cisn to go public |

Contents:

• 14 GAY SPORTG STARS WHO TOOK THE CISN TO GO PUBLIC
• STILL 'DNTG' FOR MALE TERUNTY PLAYERS TO E OUT AS GAY
• PRI: WHY NO GAY MALE GAA PLAYER SCE DóNAL ÓG?
• ELE MALE GAA PLAYER COMG OUT AS GAY WOULD BE 'PROGRSIVE' MOVE
• GAA SET TO REGISTER FIRST GAY CLUB

14 GAY SPORTG STARS WHO TOOK THE CISN TO GO PUBLIC

Ne-time All-Ireland wner Valerie Mulhy will reveal how she alt wh her sexualy Donal Óg Cack's documentary to be aired next Cork footballer has bee the first high-profile female GAA star to e out publicly and do so to help others and to make other women, who are a siar suatn, to feel more fortable wh who they Óg Cack, the first openly gay GAA sports star, looks at attus towards homosexualy at home and abroad his documentary Comg Out Of The Curve which will be aired on Monday night on RTE, We take a look at other gay sports stars who took the cisn to go Og Cack (hurlg)The much-rated Rebel star is one of the greatt goalkeepers the game of hurlg has ever seen. He beme the first ele Irish sportsman to reveal he was gay his tobgraphy, 'Come What May', released last year. "Whatever you may feel about me or who I am, I've always been at peace wh , " he Cack (hurlg)The Cloyne hurler who last year bravely spoke out about his battle wh prsn joed his brother Donal Og Cack revealg that he is gay last year.

STILL 'DNTG' FOR MALE TERUNTY PLAYERS TO E OUT AS GAY

He ntu to highlight mental health Stoney (football)England women's football pta said sh cid to speak publicly about beg gay after the posive reactn to diver Tom Daley sayg he was a relatnship wh a man. Stoney, who has 116 ps for England, is now the most high-profile active gay footballer Hzlsperger (football)The 31-year-old, pped more than 50 tim for Germany, announced he was gay last year, the first high-profile German player to do so and the first to have played regularly the English Premier League.

The former Aston Villa midfielr was advised by iends to keep his sexualy quiet but was astound by the posive reactn to his Fashanu (football)Bra's first black footballer to mand a £1ln transfer fee was also the first top-flight player to publicly adm his homosexualy. After admtg he was gay, Fashanu stggled to reigne an already stutterg reer, and retired 1997, blamg his downfall on prejudice the English game. Louganis' tobgraphy, which spent five weeks at number one on the New York Tim bt-seller list on s release 1995, tailed his rise to global promence and subsequent cisn to e out as a homosexual livg wh HIV.

Marta Navratilova (tennis)The Czech-born ne-time Wimbledon champn me out publicly as gay 1981, a short time after she was granted US cizenship. "Prr to beg a [US] cizen, I uldn't speak my md about beg gay, " she said.

PRI: WHY NO GAY MALE GAA PLAYER SCE DóNAL ÓG?

"John Amaechi (basketball)The Amerin-born Bron was the first NBA player to openly adm to beg gay 2007. "Gareth Thomas (gby unn)Thomas, who was Wal' most-pped player and a former Brish and Irish Lns pta, publicly announced he was gay December 2009 at the age of 35. "Steven Davi (cricket)The England and Surrey wicketkeeper beme the first active profsnal cricketer to openly adm to beg gay Febary 2011.

" Davi, now 27, has played eight one-day ternatnals and five Twenty20 ternatnals for Rogers (soccer)Former Leeds wger and Uned Stat ternatnal Rogers revealed he was gay Febary 2013 and at the same time announced his retirement om football at the age of 25.

"Nila Adams (boxg)Olympic boxg gold medallist Nila Adams topped the Inpennt's annual 'Pk List' poll of fluential lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people November moreRead more: Read moreRead more:. "I fely had a kd of short-term experience of beg out and knowg I was gay and not knowg whether or not I uld talk to my team-mat about , how that would go, what that might look like, not seeg really very many players before me wh mogie or Dubl mogie who had been out. Na Gaeil Aereacha (The Gay Gaels) will be ially based Dubl and -founr Caoimhe Baxter said they hope to get out on the pch next year.

ELE MALE GAA PLAYER COMG OUT AS GAY WOULD BE 'PROGRSIVE' MOVE

The associatn has ma great stris towards LGBTQ+ cln recent years, employg a full-time diversy and cln officer 2019, as well as speakg out agast homophobia the sportg world. “What a momento ocsn for @officialgaa as they are set to have their first Gay GAA team registered.

“I fd very hard to fd visible (gay) male role mols whereas you have a number of them the LGFA, for example, who are very vol and visible. © 2020 GCN (Gay Communy News). The full-time whistle sounds for Pri month later on was a month where the changg relatnship between sport and the LGBTQ+ muny here at home moved at different was a month of steps forward, taken the pany of more tuned- sportg anisatns, but also, sadly, another month of standg was a month which Lester scm-half Nick McCarthy, stead of givg up on his dream, announced to anyone who would listen that he was a gay was a month which Irish Olympic hockey player Peter Cath shook off years of anxiety ncerng his sexualy to arrive at the ncln that the bt thg he’s ever done life was to stop hidg his te and McCarthy were followg a trickle of sportspeople the UK who had ma the brave cisn this month and last to share their sexual orientatn wh a larger dience, role mols such as 17-year-old Blackpool footballer Jake Daniels and Sttish football refere Craig Napier and Lloyd Wilson.

GAA SET TO REGISTER FIRST GAY CLUB

He remembers exactly where he sat the first time he entered a drsg-room after tellg his Portlaoise teammat he was gay.

Aislg Maher believ would be "a really progrsive and posive move for the GAA" if an ele male player were to follow Blackpool footballer Jake Daniels g out as gay.

Durg the week, 17-year-old Daniels beme the first active male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990. There wasn't really a huge amount of out gay players wh Dubl mogie that time. Gay O'Drisll O'Drisll was Dubl's star rner back for most of the 1970s.