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Two athlet recently g out has highlighted the arth of openly gay players the world of U.S. men's profsnal sports, often dubbed "the last closet" for s lack of LGBTQ reprentatn.

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NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS

The Diamonds star celebrated a lifetime mment to her partner at the weekend and says she has been ‘lucky’ her experience as an openly gay athlete * gay netball players *

Ashleigh Brazill didn’t set out to be a as one of the only openly gay ele ballers Atralia, the self-proclaimed “scrappy kid” om the New South Wal town of Bargo who celebrated a civil unn wh her partner on Saturday, she is one by sets 26-year-old Brazill apart om the handful of other ele athlet who have e out, she says, is that there has been no prejudice to smash, no homophobia to nont.

”Her experience is ntrast to the fdgs of last year’s ternatnal Out on the Fields study, missned by gby’s Bgham Cup and a aln of other sportg anisatns, which found 80% of rponnts, gay and straight, had wnsed or experienced homophobia sport.

But I lost two iends, girls, recent years who mted suici, bee they were gay and uldn’t fd acceptance, so I get how hard n be.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

Carl Nassib is one of only two openly gay active players the history of the four biggt North Amerin sports leagu – the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL. Experts say homophobia sports begs at the youth level. * gay netball players *

“I certaly don’t see myself as a role mol for gay people or anyone else for that matter, bee I jt do what I do, but if people see me that way, then that’s great.

OPENLY GAY BALL PLAYER SPEAKS OUT ON HOMOPHOBIA

In major league baseball only two players have publicly me out as gay other than that few of mor league players have done so. * gay netball players *

Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagBrazill is fulfillg a val role, acrdg to Jason Ball, the first openly gay Atralian l footballer, who mpaigned for the AFL’s first “pri” match, which will be played Augt.

It absolutely matters to young kids stgglg wh their sexualy to see gay people at the ele level.

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

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“If I had have known there was such a thg as a gay footballer when I was younger, would have ma a world of difference.

HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL

The gay athlet have broken through the noise to fd they n be accepted as gay athlet basketball. * gay netball players *

“While the stereotype is that gay men n’t and don’t play footy, the oppose perceptn is that only lbians play sport.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

”Ian Roberts, gby league’s first openly gay player, was openly vilified when he me out 1995, after years of nuendo. And when Amerin football’s first openly gay player, Michael Sam, embraced his partner after beg drafted 2014, he was “lambasted by the lik of Sam Newman”, Ball says. “I am hopeful that there are many people the muny, much more enlightened than Newman, who don’t have a problem wh gay athlet, who wouldn’t blk an eye.

Hopefully we’re movg to a place where ’s no big al to be gay, on the sportg field or any other part of life.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY NETBALL PLAYERS

Jacksonville Jaguars Assistant Coach Kev Maxen Com Out as Gay.

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