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• GAY W. VIRGIA HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYER OUT BY DANCG WH HOMEG KG
• MEET THE GAY MAN BEHD THE BLUE SHIRT GUY VIRAL DANC
• THIS GAY LLEGE SOCCER PLAYER IS NOW EE TO BE WHO HE IS
• PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• THE INNOVATORS: GREAT GAY MOMENTS 20TH-CENTURY DANCE
• JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI

GAY W. VIRGIA HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYER OUT BY DANCG WH HOMEG KG

As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards. Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them. Atralian striker Andy Brennan me out as gay 2019, beg the first out gay Atralian male footballer.

He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w.

His early clubs knew he was gay, and he me out durg his reer, beg the first pro footballer to do so. In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley.

MEET THE GAY MAN BEHD THE BLUE SHIRT GUY VIRAL DANC

He later me out as gay and has sce spoken out about the difficulti queer players face. The South Ain footballer beme Ai's first out, gay male footballer when he me out 2015. Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year.

Later, he revealed he qu the sport as a rult of homophobia he faced when he me out. Growg up ral Wt Virgia, 's not the easit place to be a gay teenager and took me a long time to e out to myself and others. My homeg dance at Mselman -- two weeks after the dance at Jem's school -- was the big moment I revealed beg gay to my school.

THIS GAY LLEGE SOCCER PLAYER IS NOW EE TO BE WHO HE IS

The team threw around the words "gay" and "faggot" a lot. I was sred to ath, but summoned up the urage and was direct: "I hope this don't change our iendship but I am gay.

I was always sred about my sexualy on the team, surround by a bunch of untry boys and jocks who would fely make fun of me if they knew I was gay. My travel ach never knew that I was gay nor did I tell him but he was termed to create a safe environment on the team. They uldn't believe that I was gay, bee they said "I always acted so straight.

PRI ON THE PCH: DO SOCCER HAVE A GAY PROBLEM?

Dpe my fears, I feel very safe at my school when to LGBT issu; we even have a Gay Straight Alliance Club. I still get told that girls have csh on me, before someone then breaks the news to them that I am gay. But I won't be aaid of beg myself sce I am proud to play as an athlete who happens to be gay.

I try to prove myself sports not jt for myself but for other gay athlet. I loved how he announced he was gay and did not qu playg soccer. I n tell you that after readg the book, Robbie should be every soccer player's idol, gay or straight.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

I have learned that beg gay do not mean you are a lser of a human beg. I hope my performanc and story help spire other gay teens to show their te lors and not be aaid to play the sport they love.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

"In October, the gay ocsnal televisn crime seri actor, who lov to move his body to mic, ptured the hearts of llege football fans. A gay llege soccer player at Montclair State Universy New Jersey is the subject of a lovely new short film about life as, well, a gay llege soccer player. In the film, Johnson and a teammate talk about the non-news aspect of havg a gay player on a llege sports team.

They also talk about the team’s embrace — and ocsnal playfully rolled ey — of Johnson’s propensy to break to what some might nsir stereotypil “gay” behavr. “I thk beg a gay athlete is special, ” Johnson says, “bee I n have my gay si, and I like havg both. This month’s gay pri celebratns ci wh two of the world’s most high-profile sports tournaments: Copa Ameri — hosted for the first time by the Uned Stat — and Euro while the NFL and NBA have passed the tone of havg openly gay athlet their top profsnal leagu, not a sgle soccer player eher petn has e out as leav the “betiful game” whout any gay male role mols even an age when sponsors are unncerned about players’ Rogers of LA Galaxy plays agast New York Cy FC on Augt 23, 2015.

Is one of only two untri known to have field gay players s senr men’s team — Californian wger Robbie Rogers reprented his untry 18 tim and sred two goals but, like Germany’s midfielr Thomas Hzlsperger, he me out after his ternatnal reer was over. “Once aga we have top ternatnal tournaments featurg the bt players the world and supposedly none of them are gay, ” said Jeff Kfman, a 26-year-old player and external sportg activi director for the world’s first gay soccer club, the New York Ramblers. “There uld be 100 if not 1, 000 gay soccer players across the world at the higher levels of the game, yet no role mols the petns.

THE INNOVATORS: GREAT GAY MOMENTS 20TH-CENTURY DANCE

”Two years after Michael Sam was drafted to the NFL, and three years after the NBA’s Jason Colls ma history as the first openly gay player the four major U.

At a game Sunday Glendale, Ariz., Mexin fans chanted the gay slur "puto" — meang “faggot” — spe a YouTube plea om the team for an end the practice. “At a young age ’s beaten to kids that gay and sports don’t le up and that’s a terrible stereotype that has transcend the generatns. Stars cludg English Premier League players Per Mertacker, Las Podolski and Olivier Giroud have worn rabow-lored lac as part of a mpaign by Stonewall, backed by England’s Football Associatn and major rporate sponsors, agast homophobia on the pch and at than 100 gay-clive teams reprentg over 30 untri are registered wh the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Football Associatn (IGLFA), whose world cup tak place this Augt Portland, Ore.

JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’

“We don’t face any discrimatn when we play and is difficult to unrstand why ’s a problem the hight leagu but clearly is, ” said Jamie Feldman, 29, a midfielr and tstee of the world’s most succsful gay soccer club, London-based Stonewall last month a soccer referee Spa gave up his job after repeatedly beg the target of verbal abe at gam bee of his sexual orientatn. However, Adidas nfirmed Febary that s sponsorship ntracts clu a clse promisg not to ncel als if athlet reveal publicly that they are gay, while Nike announced Tuday was beg a major rporate sponsor of the IGLFA’s gay world Euro 2016, which begs Friday France, a mercial featurg a fictnal gay soccer player and his boyiend is beg aired to promote German railways. Louis Rams as the NFL’s first gay player but was later cut and eventually cid to "step away" om football altogether to protect his own mental health.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Bra’s first gay profsnal player, Jt Fashanu, endured a profsnal and fay backlash after his g out 1990 and end his own troubled life 1998.

”Even gay players acknowledge that fears over team uny uld be holdg some profsnal players back om g out, spe evince to the ntrary. “In a team sport, any profsnal athlete wants what’s bt for the team and they might thk that anythg drawg a lot of attentn to one player for a non-sportg reason go agast the fans chanted a gay slur at a game Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, spe beg fed by FIFA for prev homophobic York / AP“I n easily image that brgg a lot of outsi scty uld hurt the chemistry of a locker room, but this has already been played out NFL and NBA locker rooms and really don’t matter.

MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI

“Globally speakg, homosexualy isn’t as accepted as is here, and top players are world stars not jt for their club. ”Adams was optimistic that the next World Cup 2018 would be the first tournament wh a gay ternatnal soccer player.