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Players om the Manly gby league club Atralia are threateng a boytt after they were told to wear a gay pri jersey.

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

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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. "It has been reported the players ncerned won't be attendg the match for fear of vlent NRL's cln policy, perhaps more than any other sport, lists the many aspects and labels that n divi muni:"The NRL is mted to beg an clive anisatn that is open to all members of the Atralian muny regardls of age, race, relign, lour, scent, natnaly, ethnic orig, genr, sexualy, maral stat, stat as a parent, disabily or HIV/AIDS stat or other attribut that n lead to people feelg exclud or isolated" league is the sport, and Manly is the club, where Atralia's first profsnal male footballer me out as a gay man back 1995.

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

The revolt by gby league players Atralia agast wearg a ntroversial gay pri team jersey has wined, a report tailed Tuday. * australia gay pride jersey *

Ian Roberts was the first openly gay player the NRL when he me out 1995. Gay-pri jersey paradox: enforcg ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversy’ is simply tolerant and divisiveNatnalLGBTQThis was published 1 year agoOpnRugby league is one of Atralia’s great spectator sports, and for spectators the game offers rpe om polics. 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.

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

Seven players on an Atralian profsnal gby team are refg to wear a gay Pri jersey meant to promote diversy and cln. 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. "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.

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

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.

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Homophobia sport is a global problem but Atralia seems particularly reluctant to addrs , Dr Denison says. 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.

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