Meet the 16 out gay and bi players NFL history - Outsports

Contents:

• FOOTBALLRS GAYS : PRéPAREZ-VO à S RéVéLATNS
• THE PARIS GAY GAM PICTUR: ‘THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY ELECTRIC’
• CATEGORY:PARIS FOOT GAY
• GAY GAM: MEET THE TEAM LGBT ATHLET PETG AT PARIS 2018
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• NORTH LAMAR ISD STUNT SAYS HE WAS BEAT UP AT FOOTBALL GAME ‘BEE I’M GAY’
• JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY
• ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’: NFL RELEAS BIZARRE VIO AFTER PLAYER’S G OUT
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY

FOOTBALLRS GAYS : PRéPAREZ-VO à S RéVéLATNS

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Homosexualy is illegal Senegal and punishable by prison sentenc of up to five years.

It is also illegal Qatar, where PSG's owners hail om and where the men's 2022 World Cup will be staged later this top Twter trend the world on Wednday was #WeareallIdrissa wh tweets sent to support Gueye's 's stance is ntrast to the overwhelmgly posive rponse om football towards Blackpool's 17-year-old forward Jake Daniels g out as gay on Monday - the first openly gay men's profsnal footballer Bra sce Jt Fashanu 30 years Daniels: Why Blackpool forward's cisn is a watershed moment for Brish football5 Mut On: Jake Daniels - will he change football? 'Football is ready' to accept gay players - Blackpool amy directorFrench top-flight clubs wore rabow-signed shirt numbers to show their solidary wh LGBTQ+ rightsFor the send succsive season, clubs France have been ved to mark 17 May's Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia by wearg rabow-sign numbers on the back of their addn to missg Saturday's w over Montpellier, Gueye, who arrived at PSG for £30m July 2019, missed last year's show of solidary cg gastroenteris, acrdg to Le Parisien newspaper, who first reported the reason for his absence. "The biggt stars of world football were on the field on Saturday and exprsed the club's mment to the fight agast homophobia and all forms of discrimatn, " 's stance has been supported by proment policians untry's print Macky Sall wrote on Twterexternal-lk that Gueye's Mlim beliefs mt be rpected, while sport mister Matar Ba wrote that Gueye was backed by his untry's people, alongsi a picture of the midfielr on pilgrimage to Mec.

THE PARIS GAY GAM PICTUR: ‘THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY ELECTRIC’

External-lkAnalysisBabar Diarra, BBC AiFrom his team-mat wh the natnal team like PSG's Abdou Diallo or Crystal Palace's Cheikhou Kouyate to the print Macky Sall or even the novelist Boubar Boris Dp, Idrissa Gana Gueye was wily backed on social medias across Senegal and the followed speculatn he didn't want to wear the PSG jersey on Saturday as part of Ligue 1's anti-homophobic mpaign.

CATEGORY:PARIS FOOT GAY

Soccer France Olivier Rouyer, the first French football player to e out as gay, hop that Englishman Jake Daniels' statement will serve as an example France. On Monday, May 16, 32 years after striker Jt Fashanu me out publicly as gay, Jake Daniels, a Blackpool midfielr England's 2nd divisn, beme the send Brish profsnal footballer to speak publicly about beg gay while still playg.

GAY GAM: MEET THE TEAM LGBT ATHLET PETG AT PARIS 2018

"Beg gay, bi or queer is still a taboo men's football, " the 17-year-old said, an terview wh the Sky Sport TV channel the wake of his g out. His prence the stands rather than on the field durg the match agast Montpellier on Saturday, May 14, "for personal reasons, " was perceived by many as a sire not to jo the mpaign agast homophobia anized by the Ligue Football Profsnnel (LFP) and the advocy groups Foot Ensemble, PanamBoyz & Girlz Uned and SOS Homophobie durg the 37th and 38th days of the French first and send leagu. His cisn to s out match has been nmned by former striker and ach, Olivier Rouyer, who was the first French football personaly to be openly homosexual 2008, long after his reer end.

A few months before him, another active player, Atralian Joshua Cavallo, me out as gay. In France, several French football lears have taken a stand agast homophobia wh no hatn.

I scerely thk, and I have been sayg for a long time, that if a player clared his homosexualy, he would be supported by all footballers, managers and sponsors. A group fightg homophobia football has lled on the French league and Paris Sat-Germa to ask player Idrissa Gueye for an explanatn after he missed a game last week amid reports that he refed to play bee he did not want to wear a rabow-loured number on the back of his jersey. “Homophobia is not an opn but a crime, " the group se took a polil turn when Valerie Pecrse, the nservative ndidate at the French printial electn last month, joed the cricism of Gueye.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

Un ref d’Idrissa Gana Gueye s’associer à la lutte ntre l’homophobie ne pourra rter sans sanctn! A refal by Idrissa Gana Gueye to jo the fight agast homophobia uld not rema whout sanctn! Homophobic chants, often heard at French league match, have been tolerated for a long time by many club officials, and soccer thori have stggled to fd the appropriate ways of tacklg the issue.

The French league, however, lnched an actn plan three years ago allowg spectators to report sexist, homophobic or racist cints they wns. A Mlim, Gueye hails om the Islamic Ain untry of Senegal, where homosexualy is punishable by up to five years prison (though prosecutns were rare before this year, acrdg to ABC News).

NORTH LAMAR ISD STUNT SAYS HE WAS BEAT UP AT FOOTBALL GAME ‘BEE I’M GAY’

Women’s natnal team, which would have worn gay pri–themed jerseys wh rabow-lored numbers ternatnal “iendli” (basilly, glorified exhibn match). “Homophobia is not an opn but a crime, ” said Rouge Direct, an anizatn voted to batg bigotry French sports. Abdoul Mbaye, Senegal’s former prime mister, said likewise, clarg that Gueye “is not homophobic.

He do not want his image to be ed to promote homosexualy. While hailg Brish soccer player Jake Daniels as “bold, urageo and spirg” for g out as gay the days followg what Man lled Gueye’s “silent stand, ” Man also lled on fans to monstrate relig tolerance toward Gueye.

JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY

“If Gueye was publicly rantg homophobic bigotry, that would be appallg, and he should be punished, ” Man wrote.

“PSG is owned by the Emir of Qatar where ’s illegal to be gay and Mlims like Gueye n be executed for , ” he wrote.

‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’: NFL RELEAS BIZARRE VIO AFTER PLAYER’S G OUT

Il t urgent créer l ndns pour que l g-out jours gays puissent tervenir sereement. Le climat d'homophobie qui règne dans le mon du football terd jourd'hui à tout jour, en particulier profsnnel, vivre sereement et grand jour son homosexualé.

Pour rappel, l'enquête du Paris Foot Gay en 2013 révéla que 41% s jours foot profsnnel et 50% s jn jours en centr formatn déclarent s opns hostil x homosexuels. Dans l tribun, l chants et jur homophob rtent totalement banals et impunis et no ne csons le dé c ndns, envisager un g-out pour un jour foot profsnnel en activé relèvera en France l'héroïsme.

C't d'aillrs la raison pour laquelle l rar g-out ncernent s jours foot profsnnel en f rrière ou retraés (Olivier Rouyer en France, Robbie Rogers x USA, Thomas Hzlsperger en Allemagne) llectif lancrs d'alerte Rouge Direct chois jourd'hui s'adrser directement x jours football gays et l met en gar ntre s risqu g-out svag xquels lr clansté l expose. L jours football profsnnel qui vivent clanstement lr homosexualé du fa lr notoriété et qui se voient ntrats reurir à s s et applitns renntr s'exposent à tout moment à s révélatns svag sur lr sexualé et lr timé. Avec « la prve en imag » jours homosexuels s'exposent asi à s risqu prsn, déstabilisatn et chantag qui pvent être utilisés ntre x.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY

Dans la perspective s Coup du Mon football en Rsie (2018) ou Qatar (2022), ux pays x législatns homophob, c risqu sont redoutabl. L persécutns s gays actuellement en Tchétchénie (République nstutive la Fédératn Rsie) en sont la terrible s JO R en 2016, s athlèt du Village Olympique s'étaient déjà fa « pcer » sur s applitns renntr gays et outer svagement.

Cela do servir sérix avertissement pour t urgent que le mistère s Sports et l stanc du Foot s'attaquent enf flé l'homophobie dans le foot et créent asi l ndns pour que l g-out jours gays puissent tervenir sereement, sans l exposer à nséquenc grav pour lr bien-être et lr rrière. L'actn totale dont ils font prve ntribue à mettre c jours foots gays en danger.

Et il t nécsaire ssi que l jours foot x-mêm, qu'ils soient gays ou non, prennent lrs rponsabilés et ntribuent, publiquement ou non, à exiger que c ndns favorabl à lr g-out ou à celui d'un -équipier, soient mis en place. Barulet/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagThe 10th Gay Gam, an ternatnal sports event that bills self as the world’s largt and “most clive” — anyone n participate, even straight people — will e to a close on Sunday event has grown tremendoly sce s kickoff 1982 San Francis, where was origally advertised as the “Gay Olympics” by s founr, Dr.