Report: More Asie Rugby Players Jo Revolt Agast Gay Pri Jersey

Contents:

• GAY-PRI JERSEY PARADOX: ENFORCG ‘TOLERANCE’ AND ‘DIVERSY’ IS SIMPLY TOLERANT AND DIVISIVE
• ATRALIAN RUGBY PLAYERS REVOLT AFTER BEG TOLD TO WEAR GAY PRI JERSEY
• MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY
• REPORT: MORE ASIE RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS REVOLT AGAST GAY PRI JERSEY
• RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS ATRALIA TO BOYTT KEY MATCH OVER GAY PRI JERSEY

GAY-PRI JERSEY PARADOX: ENFORCG ‘TOLERANCE’ AND ‘DIVERSY’ IS SIMPLY TOLERANT AND DIVISIVE

"What furiat me (and always has) is that players will boytt over a rabow but never boytt a teammate if he's been acced of vlence agast women or any other morally reprehensible behavur that they would all agree they don't ndone, " wrote Pam Whaley on acced the seven of hypocrisy, potg out the team is sponsored by a brewery and bettg said he rpected the men's cisns and is ncerned for their welfare amid the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Hasler said club management had ma "signifint mistak"Former Manly star Ian Roberts - the first-ever former NRL player to e out as gay - says the the boytt "breaks his heart".

"Can you not unrstand the pa vised upon gay people who, no matter what they do, are disrpected simply for beg gay? Mr Roberts and others say homophobia remas a big issue among fans and players the untry's top petns. Alai Uned footballer Josh Cavallo - who me out October - has lled out the abe directed at him by crowds over his 2019 Israel Fol - who has played gby league, gby unn and Atralian Rul football at the hight levels - was ntroversially sacked by Rugby Atralia for makg anti-gay posts on social may also be terted :Media ptn, ‘Go there out and live ’ - Cavallo’s advice for DanielsMore on this story.

The top eight teams qualify for the was the only club planng to wear a pri jersey this Manly forward Ian Roberts, who the 1990s was the first high-profile gby league player to e out as gay, said he was not surprised by the players’ cisn. “As an olr gay man I’m ed to this.

ATRALIAN RUGBY PLAYERS REVOLT AFTER BEG TOLD TO WEAR GAY PRI JERSEY

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The gay and lbian muny has succeed changg public opn across the Wtern world by champng love and acceptance: wns the roundg victory of same-sex marriage the plebisce held five years Saab, Christian Tuipulotu, Hmole Olak’atu, Josh Aloiai and Josh Schter are five of the seven Manly players who have whdrawn om Thursday’s clash wh the Getty/NRL PhotosAnd yet many activists rema tolerant of anyone who dissents om the new orthodoxy, pecially those ethnic mori who hold on to more tradnal relig or cultural is why the as at the Sea Eagl over the pri jersey was pletely foreeable. Seven players on an Atralian profsnal gby team are refg to wear a gay Pri jersey meant to promote diversy and cln.

MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY

Former Manly forward Ian Roberts, who the 1990s was the first high-profile gby league player to e out as gay, said he was not surprised by the players’ cisn.

REPORT: MORE ASIE RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS REVOLT AGAST GAY PRI JERSEY

"Instead of enhancg tolerance and acceptance, we may have hred this, " their ach D Hasler said earlier this a huge backlash, the players were told not to attend the game for secury club great Ian Roberts - the first male profsnal athlete to e out as gay durg their reer - said he was "heartbroken" at the players' cisn.

Most famoly, star player Israel Fol was 2019 sacked by Rugby Atralia for sayg "hell awas" gay people on social media. A few years earlier, a 19-year-old NRL player ed an extremely profane and homophobic sult on an opponent. And 2020, AFL Women's player Tayla Harris was subjected to so much social media abe - much of sexist and homophobic - that she offered to give up her salary for the petn to hire an onle source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Tayla Harris received a torrent of abe after a now inic match photo of her was posted onleSce then an A-League football club has been fed after crowds hurled abe at Josh Cavallo, and transgenr women have found themselv at the centre of bat about who should be able to pete of this nspir to make Atralian sport a largely unwelg place for LGBTQ people and pecially children, an expert behavural science tells the BBC.

"Sport is so toxic right now, " says Erik Denison, who has spent years rearchg cln sport Atralia and rearch on Atralia, peer reviewed and published over the last two years, has found:Jt 1% of players tradnal male sport, like gby, AFL or league, intify as gay or bisexualAbout 36% of girls playg youth teams report beg a victim of homophobic abe, and more than half of boys - those who have e out are the most likely half of men male-domated sports say they have ed homophobic language the past two weeksAnd homophobic attus sport n have very real effects, Mr Roberts strsed, when reflectg on the jersey bate. "This is very personal to me, as an olr gay person, bee I've lost iends to suici and the nsequenc of what homophobia, transphobia and all the phobias n do to people. Homophobia sport is a global problem but Atralia seems particularly reluctant to addrs , Dr Denison says.

RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS ATRALIA TO BOYTT KEY MATCH OVER GAY PRI JERSEY

But Dr Denison said remas the only major profsnal men's sport globally never to have had an openly gay or bisexual player, even after Roberts says he's long phed the NRL to troduce a pri round, but spects fear of backlash om relig players and fans is preventg source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Ian Roberts was the first - and so far only - male NRL player to e out as gayBut Dr Denison thks the problem is a lack of will and a lack of planng.

Pri gam are actually the most - and arguably only - effective prejudice rctn iative that rearchers have found for sport, Dr Denison LGBT players and fans n see role mols wearg pri rearch has found teams that host pri gam e about 50% ls homophobic language, and ls sexist and racist source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Fans brought signs celebratg cln to Thursday night's gameSupporters are already showg they want better cln, argu Sea Eagle fan Hannah McGrory. Acrdg to one media report, a young gay Sea Eagl player who is yet to e out has felt disuraged om dog so bee of the stance taken by his senr club-mat. Up to seven players om the Manly gby league club Sydney, Atralia, are threateng to boytt their match Thursday after a cisn was ma whout nsultatn for them to wear a gay pri jersey the fixture.