Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg gay
Contents:
- GAY CRICKETER STEVE DAVI'S G OUT REFLECTS CHANGG ATTUS MORN PROFSNAL SPORT
- ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE
- GAY ATRALIAN CRICKETERS
- HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
- FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY
- CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'
- THE GAY ATRALIAN CRICKET CHAMPNS AND TEAMMAT JT GOT MARRIED
GAY CRICKETER STEVE DAVI'S G OUT REFLECTS CHANGG ATTUS MORN PROFSNAL SPORT
When England wicketkeeper Steve Davi ed the ter to publicly announce he was a homosexual this week, he joed a growg list of openly gay athlet who have slowly changed attus profsnal is the 21st century, not only are announcements such as Davi's unlikely to brg any ill-feelg om the wir sportg muny, they are jt as monly embraced by both gay and non-gay cizens as a symbol of sexual equaly. However, 's been a slow journey for society to move to a pot where gay sportg ins like former Wal ternatnal Gareth Thomas are the spiratn for movi and Atralian swimmg in, Stephanie Rice, is forced to make a public apology for g the word "faggot" on Amerin footballer David Pokay is regard as one of the first profsnal athlet to nfirm his homosexualy, havg ma the announcement 1975 - three years after retirg om the NFL was reported that Kopay - who addrsed the issue his ntroversial 1977 tobgraphy, The David Kopay Story - was allegedly nied posns as a profsnal and llege football ach due to his sexual great Marta Navratilova is another player who is likely to have received greater endorsement as a lbian player the morn era of profsnal announcg she was gay 1981, a disappoted Navratilova spoke of an article that said she would "pick my doubl partner so I uld look at her bum" meang remarks such as the have ntued to dimish by the years, not least wh the Atralian sportg muny. Perhaps the watershed moment for gay equaly Atralian sport me 1995, when Ian Roberts beme the first profsnal gby league player to announce his homosexualy.
ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE
The former Kangaroos forward was still playg at the Kopay and Navratilova are nsired by many to have suffered profsnally for their public revelatns, Roberts has sce bee an Atralian sportg Roberts me out, was such huge news that NRL Footy Show panellists Pl Vt, Peter Sterlg and Steve Roach were moved to appear a poster mpaign agast worked - more recently, golfer Karrie Webb and former Olympic swimmer Daniel Kowalski are exampl of gay Atralian athlet who raised ltle attentn parison to their need to mpaign agast homophobia no longer exists.
GAY ATRALIAN CRICKETERS
It really is no big goln girl Rice isn't the only Asie sportg star to receive a public pastg for gay sensivy recent tim; jt last year, AFL footballer Jason Akermanis suggted was gay players' bt terts to "stay the closet".
"I believe would e disfort that environment should someone clare himself gay, " Akermanis wrote at the Aker was nounced by many gay rights activists, was the AFL and his then-club Wtern Bulldogs' quick efforts to remove themselv om the ments that h home the announcements such as Davi' rema an anomaly, the morn attus will creasgly see that the stori are treated as non-issu, while sensive ments such as those ma by Akermanis and Rice are now what dictat ont-page news.
FOR most people, changg their Twter profile is not a signifint then there’s Atralian Women’s Cricket player Elyse Villani, who ma the cisn to add the le ‘Proud Gay Athlete’ to her social media didn’t gge the opn of all her iends and fay before htg the ed button. SIGN UP NOW >Elyse Villani hs out durg the World Cup match agast Getty ImagVillani has reprented Atralia 69 match all three formats of the game and is an unassumg and urageo role is one of very few openly gay athlet to reprent Atralia at a World Cup and at last year’s R Olympics there was only one openly gay Atralian athlete, Matilda Michelle n listen to the full terview on the Atralian Cricket Podst here or iTun. Villani took some time out of her by World Cup Campaign to speak on the Atralian Cricket Podst and says she ma the cisn to e out publicly after beg on the sportg float at the 2015 Sydney Gay & Lbian Mardi Gras wh fellow Atralian Women’s cricketer Alex Blackwell.
HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY
Blackwell, the Atralian Women’s Vice-pta, was the first openly gay Atralian cricketer to wear the baggy green and Villani has no regrets about the cisn to follow her footsteps. Villani celebrat the wicket of England's Natalie APHer cisn to e out publicly displayed the sort of gr and termatn that has seen her bounce back om an early reer axg to now feature at the top of Atralian Women’s how important is to be one of the few openly gay athlet to reprent Atralia at a World Cup?
FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY
Atralia, as a untry, has ma signifint progrs terms of LGBTQ+ rights, and cricket has also seen a few gay players. Currently, there are no openly gay cricketers the Atralian natnal team.
However, a few former Atralian cricketers have e out as gay after retirg om the sport.
One of the most notable exampl is Jason Gillpie, a former Atralian fast bowler, who me out as gay 2019. Another former Atralian cricketer, Alex Blackwell, who played for the natnal women’s team, me out as gay 2013 and spoke publicly about her experience as a gay cricketer.
CRICKETER JAM FLKNER SAYS HE IS NOT GAY AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA 'MISUNRSTANDG'
They have implemented polici and iativ to make cricket more clive and to support LGBTQ+ ncln, while there are currently no openly gay cricketers the Atralian natnal team, a few former cricketers have e out as gay after retirg om the sport. However, is important to note that there is still a lack of reprentatn of LGBTQ+ dividuals cricket, and further progrs needs to be ma to create a more clive and acceptg environment for all You Need to Know About Gay Cricketers AtraliaThere have been a few gay cricketers Atralia who have e out publicly after retirg om the sport. Currently, there are no openly gay cricketers the Atralian natnal of the most notable exampl of a gay cricketer Atralia is Jason Gillpie, a former Atralian fast bowler.
He me out as gay 2019, and his g out was seen as a signifint moment the sport. Gillpie is nsired one of the greatt fast bowlers the history of Atralian cricket, and his revelatn helped to raise awarens and acceptance of gay cricketers the sport.
She me out as gay 2013 and spoke publicly about her experience as a gay cricketer. They have implemented polici and iativ to make cricket more clive and to support LGBTQ+ is worth notg that spe the progrs ma, there is still a lack of reprentatn of LGBTQ+ dividuals cricket and further progrs needs to be ma to create a more clive and acceptg environment for all ncln, while there are currently no openly gay cricketers the Atralian natnal team, a few former cricketers have e out as gay after retirg om the sport. Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg, 50, played five Tts and 11 one-day ternatnals for the Black Caps between 1994 and 1997 and was known as an timidatg, if nsistent, pace s after his Tt but, Davis publicly revealed his sexualy for the first time, an episo of the documentary seri Scratched: Aotearoa’s Lost Sportg first ternatnal male cricketer to e out publicly was the former England wicketkeeper Steven Davi was durg Davis’s first tour to England 1994 when he started to really disver himself, he told The Spoff, though he had told his mother at an early age he was gay.
THE GAY ATRALIAN CRICKET CHAMPNS AND TEAMMAT JT GOT MARRIED
”He gused some of his teammat knew he was gay before he told a uple of them 1997 but he was never qutned about . “I certaly wasn’t livg a gay life, wasn’t part of the scene, didn’t have a partner. There was nothg to tie to, if you know what I mean, ” Davis entered his first gay relatnship when he was 27 years old, while playg for Wellgton, but he was reluctant to appear public as a uple.
When an offer of a ntract me om Auckland, Davis saw an opportuny to move away om the cy he did not felt fortable beg out the uple ma the move to Auckland, Davis told his new team’s manager he was gay, which was passed on to his team members and “didn’t seem to be that big an issue” is now on a new journey – one that exists tensn wh his sexualy. Photograph: supplied by Heath DavisAn ternatnal study on homophobia sport, released May, revealed that New Zealand gay and bisexual men were the most likely to keep their sexualy secret both youth and adult sports, wh many sayg they feared bullyg om teammat and discrimatn om ach and than half of all participants believed team sport is more homophobic than the rt of New Zealand society, while gay men were much more likely to believe this (69%) than anyone Wellgton Firebirds player, Stephen Mather, said Davis told him about his sexualy 1997, when there were no other outwardly gay men playg first class cricket at that time. ”Homophobic attus sport still very much exist, said Malee Chapman, The Spoff’s edor and producer of the documentary seri.