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Contents:

• JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
• HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE 'RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR'
• GAY & LBIANS IN SOCCER
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• CZECH SOCCER PLAYER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'I NO LONGER WANT TO HI MYSELF'
• 20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY
• JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY
• COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS
• MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
• ENGLISH SOCCER PLAYER JAKE DANIELS SAYS HE IS GAY

JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’

As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards. Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them. Atralian striker Andy Brennan me out as gay 2019, beg the first out gay Atralian male footballer.

He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w.

His early clubs knew he was gay, and he me out durg his reer, beg the first pro footballer to do so. In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley. The South Ain footballer beme Ai's first out, gay male footballer when he me out 2015.

HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS

Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year.

Josh Cavallo, the only openly gay top-flight male soccer player the sport, has told CNN that FIFA’s cisn to ban players om wearg “OneLove” armbands at the Qatar 2022 has ma him feel “exclud.

JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990

The Alai Uned midfielr and former Atralian youth ternatnal ma headl last year when he me out as gay. It seems that beg an out gay man and a soccer player is still somethg that’s greeted wh homophobia. However, there have been several pneerg male gay footballers who cid to e out of the closet and proclaim their sexualy to the world.

A w for gay rights and helpg to pave the way for other gay players to feel safe enough to e out of the closet. Consired the first openly gay male Ain soccer player, Lekoloane me out publicly 2015.

The South Ain player acknowledg that most of his teammat accepted his sexualy, however, he has faced homophobic slurs om opposg teams. He also said that he has met several closeted gay soccer players Ai, where homosexualy is crimalised several untri. I don’t wish the hostily I felt on anyone, bee not everyone n survive homophobia a sport like football, ” he told MambaOnle recently.

GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE 'RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR'

“My advice to a young gay footballer at any level or any standard is jt to be themselv, ” Davis said that same year. The Atralian plays for Alai Uned Football Club and has been the victim of shameful homophobic abe om game-goers and on social media. In May 2022, Jake Daniels me out at the age of 17  an open letter on the Blackpool Football Club’s webse, beg at that time the UK’s only openly gay active male profsnal footballer.

GAY & LBIANS IN SOCCER

He also acknowledged that “beg gay, or bi or queer men’s football is still a taboo” and that he is likely to face some gree of homophobia the sport. After stgglg wh his sexualy for years, he me as gay September 2022, makg him the first openly gay player Sttish football sce Jt Fashanu.

The Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has end s of silence wh men’s football to bee the first player the UK to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990. Photograph: Pl Dennis/TGS Photo/ShutterstockDaniels’s revelatn is a strikg landmark that when men’s football is more engaged wh social issu than any recent time, but still unable to ce progrs LGBTQ reprentatn wh the year Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo beme the only male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay, but others are yet to follow. In six months the men’s World Cup will be played Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, and Cavallo revealed to the Guardian he would be “sred” to play at the tournament, the pnacle of world English football specifilly, the shadow of the talented and unfulfilled Fashanu still lgers over the game.

The England ternatnal me out at the end of his reer and was to take his own life eight years later, Fashanu, Jt’s niece, who ns a charable foundatn his name, said that Daniels’s cisn would “e as a huge fort to the many footballers at all levels of the game still secretly livg as gay and who still feel unable to e out”. Given ternatnal soccer’s challenged history of LGBTQ cln, the Rabow Lac project is a big al — pecially the Premier League, where there’s been only one openly gay player history, Jt Fashanu.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

The social media acunts of Leicter Cy’s LGBTQ fan group, Fox Pri, were pelted wh homophobic ments followg Vardy’s celebratn, acrdg to Sky Sports. Out Soccer Player Josh Cavallo to Judge RuPl’s Drag Race Down UnrOut gay Atralian soccer player Josh Cavallo announced he will be a judge on the upg season of RuPl’s Drag Race Down Unr.

CZECH SOCCER PLAYER JAKUB JANKTO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY: 'I NO LONGER WANT TO HI MYSELF'

“As the first openly gay male profsnal football player, embracg your thentic self means eedom but for so many of the queer muny this isn’t as easy as you thk, ” Cavallo wrote his post. ”The followg January Cavallo spoke of the homophobic abe he received om fans at a game. “I’m not gog to pretend I didn’t see or hear the homophobic abe at the game last night, ” Cavallo wrote the post.

20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS

While the world gradually accepts non-heterosexuals as star players the world of sports, all to often gay and lbian soccer players and ach keep a low profile.

Support for same-sex marriage has steadily creased and more than 6--10 Amerins now report they have a close iend or fay member who is gay or lbian.

Millennials, who have nsistently monstrated strong support for gay marriage, are growg size and fluence— 2015 they will surpass Baby Boomers as the largt sgle generatn. Their views on gay marriage and other hotly ntted social qutns may soon serve as the flt cultural norm.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

S., openly gay profsnal athlet are still somethg of an anomaly—the NFL was whout a sgle openly gay player until the draftg of Michael Sam 2014.

There are three possible reasons why profsnal sports have so few gay and lbian athlet. First, there may simply be a arth of gay and lbian athlet wh the realm of profsnal sports.

BREAKING: SOCCER IS GAY

This optn seems unlikely, however, as gay and lbians would have to exceedgly unrreprented for the numbers to add up.

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

A send reason might be that sports fans are simply not ready to cheer for gay and lbian athlet, disuragg such athlet om g forward.

The PRRI/RNS Survey found that most Amerins (73 percent) support profsnal teams signg gay and lbian athlet. Even among diehard football fans support for signg gay athlet remas robt: roughly three-quarters (72 percent) of football fans say they would support their favore team signg an openly gay player.

COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS

After g out, Robbie Rogers, an openly gay MLS player, said he more often heard words of enuragement and support om fans than jeers or tnts. But the LA Galaxy player was highly cril of FIFA, ternatnal soccer’s erng body, for selectg Rsia and Qatar, untri wh strict anti-gay laws, to host the next two world Cup tournaments.

A majory (56 percent) of Amerins believe that gay and lbian athlet face a lot of discrimatn profsnal sports.

MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY

Gay former athlet who have reunted experiencg substantial discrimatn, om the ont office and the locker room, largely rroborate this perceptn.

One of the strongt predictors of one’s attu toward gay and lbian people is simply havg a close iend or fay who gay or lbian. Erik Brady of USA Today reports that when gay athlet e out to their teammat the homophobic jok and slurs, which once may have been mon, tend to evaporate and players themselv are embraced by their teammat. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U.

ENGLISH SOCCER PLAYER JAKE DANIELS SAYS HE IS GAY

There are three gay players and three others who beme mothers sce the last World there’s teenage forward Alyssa Thompson, who is a ltle b of everythg, wh Black, Filipa, Pevian and Italian ’s a team that fally looks like the untry reprents.

This summer’s team clus three gay players — Kelley O’Hara, Kristie Mewis and Rapoe — at a time when more anti-LBGTQ+ bills have been adopted state legislatur than any year on are women who were born to immigrant parents playg for a naturalized-cizen ach, Vlatko Andonovski, at a time when the Department of Jtice lls whe natnalism a grave domtic threat and terms such as “cln” and “reprentatn” have bee targets of srn. He be the send current openly gay soccer player top-tier men's profsnal soccer, jog Atralian Josh Cavallo, who announced he was gay back 2021. The Football Feratn l have been updated to clu gay and lbian players on the field alongsi straight players.

However, this suatn has sparked a long-nng bate about the acceptance and ndong of gays and lbians football. Nohels, the foc of our ntext is on 20 Inspirg Gay And Lbian Football (Soccer) Players. Fashanu ma headl October 1990 when he me out as gay to the public, beg the first profsnal soccer player to do so.