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Contents:

• FIRST ALL BLACK NEW ZEALAND PLAYER OUT AS OPENLY GAY
• RUGBY STARS REACT AS CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACK
• FIRST ALL BLACK PLAYER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY TELLS HIS STORY
• CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY
• DIVERSY SPORT: WHY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACK MATTERS
• TJ PERENARA SPEAKS TO EXPRS ON WHETHER NEW ZEALAND IS READY FOR A GAY ALL BLACK
• FORMER NZ PROP JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY
• FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY
• FORMER ALL BLACK CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY POWERFUL TV TERVIEW
• ‘IT N ACTUALLY HELP OTHER PEOPLE’: CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE OUT AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACK
• NEW ZEALAND GBY LEGEND CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACK AFTER 'LIVG A LIE'
• FORMER ALL BLACK CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE PRAISED AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY
• RUGBY: CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

FIRST ALL BLACK NEW ZEALAND PLAYER OUT AS OPENLY GAY

Sign up to our ee sport newsletter for all the latt news on everythg om cyclg to boxgSign up to our ee sport email for all the latt newsFormer New Zealand prop Campbell Johnstone has bee the first All Black to e out as gay, sayg on a televisn programme he had been “livg a lie” and leadg “a double life” before acknowledgg his sexualy. “If I n be the first All Black that out as gay and take away the prsure and stigma surroundg the issue n actually help other people, ” Johnstone said. We want to be clear, no matter who you love, gby has your back, ” Robson Zealand Sports Mister and former puty Prime Mister Grant Robertson, who is gay, thanked Johnstone for “blazg this trail” and said his announcement was “a big moment”.

Photo / GettyCurrent All Blacks have praised former prop Campbell Johnstone after he has bee the first All Black to publicly e out as gay. “If I n be the first All Black that out as gay and take away the prsure and the stigma surroundg the whole issue then n actually help other people. "I'm also hopg to help open the door for anyone stgglg this space" ❤️Former All Blacks prop Campbell Johnstone has e out as the first openly gay male New Zealand gby player — World Rugby (@WorldRugby) January 30, 2023.

RUGBY STARS REACT AS CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACK

Sport Mister and openly gay MP Grant Robertson shared his support for Johnstone on Instagram, llg “a big moment”. ”In 2019, All Black halfback TJ Perenara spoke out about his support for the Rabow muny and the age-old qutn - are Kiwis ready for a gay All Black? ”Perenara said he uldn’t speak on behalf of the All Blacks on whether fans would be ready for an openly gay All Black, but he hoped Kiwis were.

Today is a signifint day, bee for the first time an All Black is puttg on the rerd publicly that he’s gay.

FIRST ALL BLACK PLAYER TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY TELLS HIS STORY

The prop played three All Black Tt match 2005 and ma 72 appearanc for Canterbury and 38 for the told his fay and close iends he was gay but tonight he’s openg up publicly the hope will help other players. "If I n be the first All Black that out as gay and take away the prsure and stigma surroundg the issue n actually help other people, " Johnstone said.

Former New Zealand prop Campbell Johnstone has bee the first All Black to e out as gay, sayg on a televisn programme on Monday he had been "livg a lie" and leadg "a double life" before acknowledgg his sexualy. New Zealand Sports Mister and former puty Prime Mister Grant Robertson, who is gay, thanked Johnstone for "blazg this trail" and said his announcement was "a big moment". Earlier this year, former All Black Campbell Johnstone me out as gay - the first top-tier Kiwi male gby player to do so.

CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY

He anised the world's first gay gby match: Wellgton's Krazy Knights faced off agast the Ponsonby Hero.

DIVERSY SPORT: WHY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACK MATTERS

"Homophobic language was probably rife, and there weren't role mols, " Knight tells The Detail. Knight adms he got "a b teary" when he saw Johnstone say he was gay. Photo / Getty ImagAt the height of Rugby World Cup Fever, All Black TJ Perenara has spoken out about his support for the Rabow muny and answers the age-old qutn — are Kiwis ready for a gay All Black?

TJ PERENARA SPEAKS TO EXPRS ON WHETHER NEW ZEALAND IS READY FOR A GAY ALL BLACK

"Don't miss October's issue of @gayexprs featurg @AllBlacks legend TJ Perenara! — exprs Magaze (@gayexprs) September 30, 2019. The player also donated and promoted the gay and clive gby team The NZ Faln's Givealtle page, helpg them to get to the Bgham's Cup, bucket-llected for Rabow Youth and InsiOUT and wore rabow lac durg his next game.

Jan 30 (Rters) - Former New Zealand prop Campbell Johnstone has bee the first All Black to e out as gay, sayg on a televisn programme on Monday he had been "livg a lie" and leadg "a double life" before acknowledgg his sexualy. We want to be clear, no matter who you love, gby has your back, " Robson Zealand Sports Mister and former puty Prime Mister Grant Robertson, who is gay, thanked Johnstone for "blazg this trail" and said his announcement was "a big moment". Former New Zealand gby player Campbell Johnstone beme the first All Black to e out publicly as gay, an terview wh TVNZ’s Seven Sharp on Monday.

FORMER NZ PROP JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY

Former All Black player Campbell Johnstone has publicly e out as gay on New Zealand televisn a first for the natnal gby 43-year-old prop, who played three Tts 2005, had already told his fay and close iends before g out on the TVNZ work’s One News channel.

FORMER NEW ZEALAND GBY PLAYER CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO E OUT AS GAY

“If I n be the first All Black that out as gay and take away the prsure, I gus, the stigma surroundg that whole issue then n actually help other people and then the public will know that there is one amongst the All Blacks, ” Johnstone The World Rugby 7’s Seri Live on Kayo. ”Sport Mister and openly gay MP Grant Robertson shared his support for Johnstone on Instagram.

How would the g out of the ‘first gay All Black’ be treated by gby?

FORMER ALL BLACK CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY POWERFUL TV TERVIEW

Many bs and anisatns around the world marked the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) earlier this week. A vio was promoted of top level players champng cln, NZR signed up to the Pri Pledge and print Max Spence went on rerd as sayg that “we’ll see a gay All Black”.

A good iend who is gay (and I spect is a closeted gby fan) queried the most fabuloly apt way if NZR are applyg makp when they really need skre. The ‘L’ scrib an environment women’s gby where homosexualy is so mon due to the game’s foundatns partly as a femist unter-culture movement, that has reached the pot of pretty much universal acceptance om those who are volved and follow .

‘IT N ACTUALLY HELP OTHER PEOPLE’: CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE OUT AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACK

Bee really, if they wanted to champn members of the rabow muny, NZR would do well to regnise the ntributn gay women have already ma to not jt the sport, but New Zealand society.

Associate Profsor Sally Shaw, of the Universy of Otago’s School of Physil Edutn, Sport and Exercise Science, agre that the clear issue that NZR is tryg to solve wh the Pri Pledge is almost exclively the relatnship between gby and gay men. “There’s a lot more nuance around gettg gay men volved sport, but I thk NZR do serve a warmish round of applse for at least tryg to do somethg, ” she says.

NEW ZEALAND GBY LEGEND CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY ALL BLACK AFTER 'LIVG A LIE'

The issue of gay men all sports is vast. There is some evince that already is, as Shaw rightly pots out the acceptance of diversy is much higher among younger people due to to simply beg part of societal trends, and anecdotal evince (albe pretty limed) suggts that e of homophobic language on the field has rced signifintly over the last uple of s.

Even among olr players, stori of simple acceptance clubs already very much exist, wh an example beg proudly openly gay player Dn Hoskg Auckland. All the boys know I’m gay and I haven’t had any issu wh .

I remember gog to the Universy club and they had a massive rabow flag up their clubrooms, thgs like that make not an issue … there might be a misnceptn that some gay boys are gog to e and check everyone out the showers but that’s so far om the tth.

FORMER ALL BLACK CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE PRAISED AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY

There are gay men at other clubs, around the untry but to be hont I kd of don’t even thk about much any more. He readily adms that his experience as an olr and more fortable person his own sk is que different om that of a younger player, but says that NZR seekg out and talkg to other openly gay gby men like him would show that they’re not alone.

While there obvly aren’t any openly gay All Blacks, there are at least a uple that are open to talkg about . The Israel Fol saga saw TJ Perenara show solidary wh those who were harmed by the Atralian player’s ultra-nservative views on homosexualy. Tly though, whatever happens om here on uld actually renr the ia of the first gay All Black a b of a moot pot anyway.

If gby do eventually make to the clivy goals wants and gay gby players are fully enveloped s normalisatn, such an event would be treated like any other day of the week. After all, the All Blacks’ inty is lerally built on the ncept of the team first – so the ‘gay All Black’ will always stead be the ‘All Black who happens to be gay’ that environment anyway.

RUGBY: CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE BE FIRST ALL BLACK TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

As Weber pots out, if you were to substute gay slurs wh racist on, ’s highly unlikely would even pass anyone’s lips.