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

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ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE

FOR most people, changg their Twter profile is not a signifint then there’s Atralian Women’s Cricket player Elyse Villani, who ma the cisn to add the le ‘Proud Gay Athlete’ to her social media didn’t gge the opn of all her iends and fay before htg the ed button.

SIGN UP NOW >Elyse Villani hs out durg the World Cup match agast Getty ImagVillani has reprented Atralia 69 match all three formats of the game and is an unassumg and urageo role is one of very few openly gay athlet to reprent Atralia at a World Cup and at last year’s R Olympics there was only one openly gay Atralian athlete, Matilda Michelle n listen to the full terview on the Atralian Cricket Podst here or iTun. Villani took some time out of her by World Cup Campaign to speak on the Atralian Cricket Podst and says she ma the cisn to e out publicly after beg on the sportg float at the 2015 Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras wh fellow Atralian Women’s cricketer Alex Blackwell.

Blackwell, the Atralian Women’s Vice-pta, was the first openly gay Atralian cricketer to wear the baggy green and Villani has no regrets about the cisn to follow her footsteps. Villani celebrat the wicket of England's Natalie APHer cisn to e out publicly displayed the sort of gr and termatn that has seen her bounce back om an early reer axg to now feature at the top of Atralian Women’s how important is to be one of the few openly gay athlet to reprent Atralia at a World Cup? The all-rounr had won the Man of the Match award the 2015 World Cup fal which Atralia had won by beatg New Zealand by 7 many sportspersons have e out the open the past revealg their gay inty, the number of such stanc cricket, pecially the men’s sectn, has been srce.

ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY

In 2011, former England ternatnal Steven Davi beme the sport’s first active profsnal player to announce that he is gay. Gee Cecil Iv (1 October 1867 Germany – 4 June 1950) was an English poet, wrer, penal reformer and early homosexual law reform mpaigner.

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

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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.

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

”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.

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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.

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