<p>Nigel Owens talks about beg the only openly gay gby referee</p>
Contents:
- CRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS: PREMIERSHIP GBY REFEREE ME OUT AS GAY VIA WHATSAPP
- LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: SUPER LEAGUE REFEREE JAM CHILD SPEAKS PUBLICLY ABOUT BEG GAY
- GAY GBY LEAGUE REFEREE LIFTS LID ON HOW G OUT AFFECTED OFFICIATG REER
- WHO IS GBY REF NIGEL OWENS? WELSHMAN BRAVELY ME OUT AS GAY, FOUGHT BULIMIA AND OVERME SUICI
- TOP ENGLISH GBY REFEREE CRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS OUT AS GAY
- ‘I NSIRED CHEMIL STRATN,’ SAYS GAY GBY REFEREE NIGEL OWENS
- DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
- TOP ENGLISH GBY REFEREE OUT AS GAY AND REVEALS THE SPIRATN HE DREW OM NIGEL OWENSCRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS IS ONE OF THE LEADG OFFICIALS THE GALLAGHER PREMIERSHIPWALONLEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYANTHONY WOOLFORD16:21, 5 DEC 2019BOOKMARKENGLISH REFEREE CRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS (IMAGE: DAVID ROGERS/GETTY IMAG) GET THE LATT WELSH RUGBY NEWS ANALYSIS AND TERVIEWSMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT WELSH RUGBY NEWS ANALYSIS AND TERVIEWSINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
- 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. * gay referee rugby *
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.
When gby referee Nigel Owens me out as gay 2007, he said was “a big taboo” to be LGBT+ his le of work. Welsh gby player Gareth Thomas later me out as gay, and other players have opened up about their inti too.
Did you enunter much homophobia after g out as gay? But on the odd ocsn – on the very, very odd ocsn that there were homophobic ments shouted at me om the spectators – was heard by other people and was reported to the relevant bodi and they managed to al wh the suatn.
LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH: SUPER LEAGUE REFEREE JAM CHILD SPEAKS PUBLICLY ABOUT BEG GAY
Super League referee Jam Child speaks publicly about beg gay for the first time an exclive terview for the BBC's LGBT Sport Podst. * gay referee rugby *
Rugby has allowed to be who we are, so nobody uld say that gby is a homophobic sport.
GAY GBY LEAGUE REFEREE LIFTS LID ON HOW G OUT AFFECTED OFFICIATG REER
Gay gby league referee Jam Child has opened up on how revealg his sexualy publicly for the first time 2021 affected his officiatg reer * gay referee rugby *
Child wants to 'help te' people and enurage rpectSuper League referee Jam Child has not spoken publicly about his sexualy before - but this is not his 'g out' 's been a long time sce Child was '' - wh his fay, iends and refereeg lleagu all aware that he's an exclive terview for the BBC's LGBT Sport Podst, Child has bee one of the hight-profile nam gby league to open up about beg gay.
"When I n out there and make a cisn, don't matter whether I'm gay or straight. "Listen: The LGBT Sport Podst - The one wh Jam Child'If this helps te others, that's great'Child's cisn to talk about his sexualy is driven by a number of is still more than a month to go until the new Super League season starts, which means he n share his story whout worryg about overshadowg any actn on the there's also another many ele officials, Child gets plenty of abe - cludg some of a homophobic nature.
"I'm not sayg that's all to do wh my sexualy, but I certaly thk one, if not two of those, were homophobic. "Child says he's also received homophobic abe durg gam that has been "specifilly directed" at him and not other officials or players. "By me speakg about this publicly, there n't then be a suatn where somebody is homophobic, but ni knowg I'm gay, " he says.
WHO IS GBY REF NIGEL OWENS? WELSHMAN BRAVELY ME OUT AS GAY, FOUGHT BULIMIA AND OVERME SUICI
A top English gby referee has ed the Rabow Lac mpaign to e out as gay. * gay referee rugby *
Gay gby league referee Jam Child has opened up on how revealg his sexualy publicly for the first time 2021 affected his officiatg reerJam Child beme the first Super League referee to announce he was gay 2021 Retired gby league referee Jam Child claims he 'felt more rpect' om players he officiated after revealg his sexualy. Child, 39, beme the first Super League referee to announce publicly that he was gay Febary 2021.
In 2007, the Mynyddcerrig-native shocked the sports world by g out as gay. 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.
TOP ENGLISH GBY REFEREE CRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS OUT AS GAY
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. * gay referee rugby *
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
English gby has been praised for clampg down on homophobia the sport, though a leadg gay referee warns there is still work to be done eraditg the problem. * gay referee rugby *
"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. Owens knew he was gay his late teens.
Craig Maxwell-Keys, a top gby referee England who also do ternatnal match, has e out publicly as gay an terview wh the BBC. One official got him touch wh Nigel Owens, one the bt gby refere the world, who had e out as gay a few years earlier.
He knows he has the full support of people the sport and that beg gay won’t be a barrier. Rugby referee Nigel Owens is one of the most proment gay men sport.
DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
There are many great gay profsnal gby players and personali. The players have bee a bean of light bee they overme the stereotyp. * gay referee rugby *
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. “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.
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.
New report to homophobia UK sport.
TOP ENGLISH GBY REFEREE OUT AS GAY AND REVEALS THE SPIRATN HE DREW OM NIGEL OWENSCRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS IS ONE OF THE LEADG OFFICIALS THE GALLAGHER PREMIERSHIPWALONLEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYANTHONY WOOLFORD16:21, 5 DEC 2019BOOKMARKENGLISH REFEREE CRAIG MAXWELL-KEYS (IMAGE: DAVID ROGERS/GETTY IMAG) GET THE LATT WELSH RUGBY NEWS ANALYSIS AND TERVIEWSMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT WELSH RUGBY NEWS ANALYSIS AND TERVIEWSINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
Gay referee Nigel Owens ‘humbled and honoured’ to be selected for Rugby World Cup fal * gay referee rugby *
Gay referee: "Still some issu".
LIST | 5 GAY RUGBY STARS WHO ARE OUT AND PROUD
English gby has been praised for clampg down on homophobia the sport, though a leadg gay referee warns there is still work to be done eraditg the problem. A Brish ernment select mtee released a report Sunday vtigatg the prevalence of homophobia UK sport and how the lg bodi were alg wh .
THE ONLY GAY ON THE PCH
In November 2014, two gby fans were banned for two years and each orred to pay £1, 000 ($1, 250) to a chary of gay referee Nigel Owens’ choice after the Welshman was verbally abed while officiatg an ternatnal match between England and Wal at Twickenham.
“As far as homophobia go, there are some issu gby that need to be addrsed and need to be eradited, but I thk gby is aware of those problems and do all n to eradite them.