Graeme Le Sx’s battle agast homophobic abe and why the door is openg for gay players to e out football

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I experienced homophobic abe on the pch, but tim are changg. The 8% of fans who have a problem wh gay players their team should be banned

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GRAEME LE SX’S BATTLE AGAST HOMOPHOBIC ABE AND WHY THE DOOR IS OPENG FOR GAY PLAYERS TO E OUT FOOTBALL

A married heterosexual, Graeme Le Sx endured years of abe om fellow players and fans. But is the ti turng for gay players to fally e out? * le saux gay *

Twenty years have passed sce Robbie Fowler brandished his backsi and goad Graeme Le Sx perhaps the most homophobic gture ever to take place on a football pch.

GRAEME LE SX LLS FOR MORE SUPPORT FOR GAY FOOTBALLERS

Former England fenr Graeme Le Sx says more needs to be done to support gay footballers the sport. * le saux gay *

We have eked towards a progrsive society where gay people n feel more fortable openg up about their sexualy, and the time has e for football, as a reflectn of society, to echo that environment. When you nsir that two percent of the UK male populatn intify as gay, is que shockg that there has only been one high-profile footballer who has ever e out durg his playg reer. It still feels odd to juxtapose Graeme Le Sx’s name wh homophobia English football.

GRAEME LE SX: A GAY FOOTBALLER WOULD NOT SUFFER THE SAME ABE AS JT FASHANU

After ex-Aston Villa midfielr Thomas Hzlsperger me out as gay, a notor cint betwee... * le saux gay *

Le Sx beme the target for the homophobic tnts bee he didn’t f the mould of your “typil” footballer. In his own words, he beme the unofficial non-gay, gay spokperson for the sport. No one si the Chelsea drsg room believed for one send that he was gay.

GAY TNTS LED TO LE SX OUTBURST

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He was not gay and has said he would have no issue wh a gay player his drsg room, but beme unrstandably upset at the beg risively labelled as a homosexual. As a rult, there was somethg odd about havg to repeatedly ny the accatns whout offendg or disrpectg the gay muny.

He wonred if beg falsely labelled gay uld even be famatory, due to the potentially hazardo implitns on his profsnal reer.

Precent has told that some ach would avidly reject the signg of a player they knew he was gay, as would a rather sizeable portn of supporters at that time, as surveys illtrated. It is signifint to note that one year prevly, Jt Fashanu – who remas the only high-profile player to e out as gay durg his reer – opened up about his sexualy. He agreed to an exclive wh The Sun, and on 22 October 1990 the tabloid ran the headle “£1m Football Star: I AM GAY.

LE SX SHOCKED BY BECKHAM'S HYPOCRISY AND "GAY" TNTS

Former England fenr Graeme Le Sx tells PkNews ’s wrong to assume an openly gay premiership footballer would face the same amount of homophobic abe as Jt Fashanu. * le saux gay *

Now he’d be hailed a hero … you’ve got to remember the public’s perceptn of homosexualy at that time was that was an abomatn.

WHY ARE THERE NO GAY FOOTBALL STARS?; AS GRAEME LE SAUX IS BAFFLED BY TAUNTS THAT HE IS HOMOSEXUAL, WE ASK ..

Forrt manager Brian Clough, perhaps a product of his time, banned Fashanu om trag wh the first team when he disvered that he was gay. He had taken his own life after visg Charts Roman Spa, a lol gay sna. They punished Fowler far more severely for pokg fun at mours circulatg about him snortg e than for his blatant attempt to publicly huiate Le Sx and sentially enurage homophobia.

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Gay tnts led to Le Sx outburst – The Irish Tim .

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