Contents:
- THE GAY ATRALIAN CRICKET CHAMPNS AND TEAMMAT JT GOT MARRIED
- ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY
- ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE
- THE BABY WAS BORN TO A GAY UPLE ATRALIAN CRICKET
- CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'
- CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'
THE GAY ATRALIAN CRICKET CHAMPNS AND TEAMMAT JT GOT MARRIED
She has earned a lot of rpect om her teammat, Cricket Atralia and LGBT supportg muni, for her willgns to speak out on issu such as homophobia the field of sport.
“That msage om society, that you don’t que serve the same rights, sends a very dangero msage to young gay people g to grips wh their own sexualy at a difficult time of their liv. “It’s not healthy to hi who you really are, ” said Blackwell this year’s Gay Mardi Gras, the annual LGBT pri para which happens Sidney.
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. In 2011, former England ternatnal Steven Davi beme the sport’s first active profsnal player to announce that he is gay.
ATRALIAN CRICKETER JAM FLKNER REVEALS HE IS GAY ON HIS 29TH BIRTHDAY
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? Sydney: A baby boy was born to a gay uple on the Atralian women’s cricket team.
Sydney: A fe swg bowler for Atralia's women's cricket team and a champn of same-sex marriage, Megan Schutt is upset wh her male unterparts Jam Pattson and Marc Stois' recent homophobic slurs.
ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE
She wants men to be more receptive towards homosexualy as they are "attacked" more for beg gay. She was asked about the recent cints which two Atralian players, Pattson and Stois, were sanctned for homophobic slurs on the field. It's disappotg that we still e that language, and I don't believe that those boys actually are homophobic, I tly don't.
Schutt said men are attacked more for beg gay.
THE BABY WAS BORN TO A GAY UPLE ATRALIAN CRICKET
"I haven't been attacked for beg a lbian but I know men that have been for beg gay. "And the fact that 's always men that are still g those rogatory terms is the most disappotg part of bee they're gog to have gay iends, whether they're out to them or not.
They didn’t back off om makg their homosexual relatn public and openly talk about their journey the same-sex weddg. Although Sciver me out to her fay weeks before she and Bnt began datg, she has also stggled wh ternalized homophobia, avoidg discsns and hidg her engagement rg to not reveal her same-sex relatnship.
"Schutt directed this same honty towards social media ers spreadg hate about the vote for same-sex hasn't been aaid to ll out any abe that's e her a gay, ele cricketer the public spotlight, Schutt's voice ma her a target for those that disapproved of her valu and she says facg that negativy was all worth , as long as helped someone else. But an creasg number of openly gay female cricketers are experiencg the petive dilemmas.
CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'
The outlet Cricket Monthly recently ran a long feature story on the phenomenon of openly gay female cricket players. While Bnt and Sciver are one of only three engaged or married upl who play on the same ternatnal cricket team, there are gay players all over the sport.