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Contents:

• THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
• THERE WILL BE NO OUT GAY MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AT THE U.S. OPEN, YET AGA
• CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS
• WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN’S PROFSNAL TENNIS?
• WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY PLAYERS ELE MEN'S TENNIS?
• THE 10 BEST MANCHTER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MANCHTER
• TOP NAM COME IN SUPPORT OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS ON THE MEN’S TOUR
• "IF THERE'S A GAY PLAYER THE LOCKER ROOM, NOTHG HAPPENS" - DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN, THE LATT STAR TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT
• AS A BLACK GAY MAN, I ULDN’T SEE MYSELF REFLECTED PROFSNAL TENNIS – SO I FED MY OWN PATH

THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY

​Neil SmallburnAfter 20 years away, thkg gay men weren’t supposed to play tennis, I fally found somewhere to play and be myself.

As a former men’s llegiate tennis player and openly gay member of my team, this qutn nagged at me as I attend the monumental first ever Pri event at the U. As a former llegiate tennis player and gay man, this event stck a particularly sensive chord for me. After all of the homophobia I have personally experienced sports, the panelists and the packed dience gave me so much hope for the future of cln sports.

The trailblazer for gay visibily on the ATP tour scribed himself durg the panel discsn as “an anx guy and an anx tennis player, ” statg that his disfort wh his sexual orientatn throughout his life was a signifint ntributor to his anxiety. To me, the fact that Vahaly was even able to make on tour as a closeted gay man the 2000s mak him que an anomaly. The days, top players Roger Ferer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have all publicly stated that they would wele an out gay man to the ATP.

THERE WILL BE NO OUT GAY MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AT THE U.S. OPEN, YET AGA

While we now celebrate Kg for her acplishments as a gay rights activist, the sacrific she had to make and terrors that she endured for wantg to be her thentic self after beg outed towards the end of her profsnal tennis reer – nearly 40 years ago – are unjtifiable. Statistilly speakg, there mt be a man the top 100, 200, 500 or even 1, 000 who is gay, right?

Combe that wh gay and bisexual men reprentg a signifintly smaller portn of the populatn than heterosexual men, and the odds of havg one of makg through the ranks growg up and currently beg a profsnal tennis player are slim, no matter how welg players such as Ferer, Djokovic and Murray are 2019. There uld be someone makg their way up the rankgs junrs right now, who hopefully will not be terred om tennis for beg a gay or bisexual man, who will see events such as the U. As Rippon highlighted, g out and beg labeled as “that gay athlete” is not easy to al wh.

CLONEZONE: REWARD OFFERED OVER GAY VILLAGE SHOP ATTACKS

Sports Groups Greater ManchterThere are loads of sports groups for LGBT people Greater Manchter, and some of the are specific for gay, bi and trans men.

Village Manchter Football ClubVillage Manchter Football Club is a gay/bi/straight clive club that wel anyone who lov. The most tellg sign of the lack of out gay men profsnal tennis is that the only player wearg any rabow apparel this summer was a straight guy who had to apologize for g gay slurs durg the Olympics.

WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN’S PROFSNAL TENNIS?

Open starts s two-week n New York, I feel pelled to rehash this prsg statistic: There will once aga be no openly gay male players at one of the sport’s premier events. “To be hont, I’m somewhat surprised that there still hasn’t been an out active ATP Tour level player, ” said Nick Lee, a former llege tennis player at Vassar who is openly gay.

WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY PLAYERS ELE MEN'S TENNIS?

The absence of out male pro tennis players is noteworthy a summer that saw the first gay NFL player and gay NHL prospect e out and a rerd number of out LGBTQ Olympians, cludg the most men ever. Brian Bradley, who is gay and played tennis for Catholic Universy Washgton, D.

C., foced on the dividual nature of the sport when tellg Outsports why he thks gay pro tennis players stay closeted. “There are no out gay players on the ATP tour bee most players don’t pick up a racket hop to be a role mol for an entire margalized muny, ” Bradley said. “It tak a special personaly to both thrive a profsnal sport AND live thentilly as a gay man.

For so long gayns has been attributed to weakns — this n alienate a player om g out. “What happens if you’re the the FIRST out gay player?

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“The g out procs is so nuanced, and I n image the trici that e wh beg gay and playg a profsnal sport. That closeted player may not have signed up to be the first gay player. But the fear that an out player would be hound by the media has been molished by how quickly the Carl Nassib story fad after the Las Vegas Rairs fensive leman me out as gay June.

I thk “gay male pro tennis player out” would be a story that quickly fas as an obssn a culture where “breakg news” gets old really fast.

TOP NAM COME IN SUPPORT OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS ON THE MEN’S TOUR

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"IF THERE'S A GAY PLAYER THE LOCKER ROOM, NOTHG HAPPENS" - DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN, THE LATT STAR TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT

The bike was also ed three prev attacks, Crimtoppers anisatn said was a distctive red/orange off-road style GASGAS bike, which was thought to have been ed durg attacks at the store on 2 March, 13 April and 24 ptn, Clonezone Manchter scrib self as a "gay superstore"The chary has offered up to £2, 000 for rmatn that leads to the arrt and nvictn of those volved the attacks. Regnal manager for the North Wt, Gary Murray, said Manchter was "renowned for many thgs, cludg s diversy and world-famo Gay Village".

And that’s the fact that there has never been the prence of an openly gay male tennis player on the profsnal tour. There are no openly gay or bisexual men that pete profsnally on the Men’s ATP Tour. We have vered other openly gay tennis players the past but have not seen them on the profsnal circu (EXCLUSIVE: Lendale Johnson on Beg The First Openly Gay Tennis Player & More).

Gay players existed at other levels and then there were those that would e out after they retired, but to have an active top-tier player your sport e out as gay, shows that there is forward progrsn of the sport as a whole workg to accept LGBTQ players. While the world is seeg male athlet other sports pete as openly gay athlet at the top levels, as jt mentned, vered weekly on our televisns and on the ont page of the sports pag, tennis seems to turn a bld eye when to havg healthy nversatns surroundg the LGBTQIA muny, visibily, and top-tier petn.

AS A BLACK GAY MAN, I ULDN’T SEE MYSELF REFLECTED PROFSNAL TENNIS – SO I FED MY OWN PATH

Unlike the women’s tour (WTA), where there are tennis giants like the legendary Billie Jean Kg and Marta Navratilova who are openly gay, the men’s tour seems as if they aren’t acceptg of any male player who isn’t an alpha male warrr who gnts aggrsively and beats his cht whenever they h a wner. And there has been homophobic language slurred both on and off urts by male athlet. Most recently Italian tennis star Fab Fogni yelled a homophobic slur out of “tratn” at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Brian Vahaly (an Amerin retired profsnal tennis player) me out as gay 2017, 10 years after officially retirg om the sport.

64, who peted profsnally for 6 years, said that gay players may feel disuraged om beg open about their sexualy bee of “sponsors, fans, fay and iendships. Vahaly told the Thomson Rters Foundatn that “ was impossible to go a week” whout hearg homophobic slurs when he played on the ATP tour. “When I was petg the mid-2000s, I would not scribe tennis as a very welg environment for gay players, ” he said, addg he was hopeful that more gay, male players at the ele level would e out as acceptance grows sport.