Openly gay gby referee Nigel Owens might never have achieved his inic stat if he’d had gone ahead wh plans for a chemil stratn.
Contents:
- CRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS: PREMIERSHIP GBY REFEREE ME OUT AS GAY VIA WHATSAPP
- WHO IS GBY REF NIGEL OWENS? WELSHMAN BRAVELY ME OUT AS GAY, FOUGHT BULIMIA AND OVERME SUICI
- ‘I NSIRED CHEMIL STRATN,’ SAYS GAY GBY REFEREE NIGEL OWENS
- GAY RUGBY REFEREE
- GAY REFEREE REQUTED TO BE STRATED
- DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
- THE ONLY GAY ON THE PCH
CRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS: PREMIERSHIP GBY REFEREE ME OUT AS GAY VIA WHATSAPP
Premiership referee Craig Maxwell-Keys says the gby work has been supportive after he me out as gay via WhatsApp. * rugby union referee gay *
Craig Maxwell-Keys explas a cisn to Exeter Chiefs' Jack YeandleProfsnal gby has ntually embraced morn technology - so 's no surprise that Premiership referee Craig Maxwell-Keys took a siar approach towards g out as gay. "Gunng over prejudice to chase Olympic dreamMaxwell-Keys drifted towards beg a match official by chance - he broke his wrist playg for Lichfield as a youngster and, while reverg om the jury, he enrolled on a refereeg and tly bten by the refereeg bug, he took charge at the Staffordshire Unr-12 Ftival at the age of 17 and worked his way up the ladr to bee a full-time referee urse, Maxwell-Keys is not the only openly gay gby referee - Nigel Owens, who me out 2007, is one of the sport's hight-profile officials and has featured at three World Cups. In 2007, the Mynyddcerrig-native shocked the sports world by g out as gay.
WHO IS GBY REF NIGEL OWENS? WELSHMAN BRAVELY ME OUT AS GAY, FOUGHT BULIMIA AND OVERME SUICI
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6 In 2007 Owens shocked the sports world by g out as gayCred: SWNS:South Wt News Service.
It's such a big taboo to be gay my le of work, I had to thk very hard about bee I didn't want to jeopardise my reer.
A GAY REF IN A MACHO SPORT. "It's such a big taboo to be gay my le of work, I had to thk very hard about bee I didn't want to jeopardise my reer, " he nfsed.
‘I NSIRED CHEMIL STRATN,’ SAYS GAY GBY REFEREE NIGEL OWENS
There are many great gay profsnal gby players and personali. The players have bee a bean of light bee they overme the stereotyp. * rugby union referee gay *
"When I beme a referee, beme clear that there was nobody the sport who was gay. "Although that’s not to say that the sport is openly homophobic.
GAY RUGBY REFEREE
Owens knew he was gay his late teens. Rugby referee Nigel Owens is one of the most proment gay men sport.
As an openly gay figure one of the most mascule of sports Nigel Owens is a rary – but he might never have achieved his inic stat gby unn if he had gone ahead wh plans for a chemil stratn.
GAY REFEREE REQUTED TO BE STRATED
“I didn’t want to be gay, ” Owens, who me out 2007, told CNN. “I actually went to the doctor at one stage to see if I uld be chemilly strated any way, if would get rid of me beg gay.
DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
They n’t tell other people they’re gay bee they’re fightg themselv.
However, he believ the mcular world of gby unn is way ahead of other global sports when to acceptg gay stars, although Gareth Thomas beme the first profsnal player to open up about his sexualy as recently as 2009. “It annoys me sometim when people say gby is homophobic.
He’s om Wal, his name is Nigel Owens and he’s openly gay.
THE ONLY GAY ON THE PCH
"'I didn't want to be the token gay referee'A reer as long as Cecch's don't e whout challeng, and some of his most memorable moments have been acpanied by ntroversy. "I've always been gay, but I didn't know until I was 25, " Cecch says. I didn't want to be known as 'Matt the gay ref', and to eher miss out on gam or be given gam bee I was the token gay referee.