One of the most eloquent and charismatic straight athlete alli for gay rights is David Pock, an Atralian gby player. He and his partner, Emma, won't marry until gays and lbians have the...
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- THIS STRAIGHT ATHLETE MARRIED THIS WEEKEND BEE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
- THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
- HUGE SUPPORT FOR FORMER WALLABI PLAYER WHO HAS E OUT AS GAY
- DAN PALMER PRAISED AFTER BEG FIRST WALLABI PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
- ASIE GBY PLAYER DAVID POCK SCHOOLS POLICIAN ON GAY MARRIAGE
THIS STRAIGHT ATHLETE MARRIED THIS WEEKEND BEE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
David Pock and his wife, Emma, stood by the gay muny’s si and are now legally married. * david pocock gay *
Alongsi this, he has been a public advote the mpaign for marriage equaly Atralia and has been a gut on the ABC's panel show Q&A passnately batg opposn to legalisg gay marriage.
Although he and partner Emma Palandri held a mment ceremony 2010, they refed to sign documents that would rult their legal marriage until their gay iends were able to do the same. In 2015, havg pledged not to wed Emma until gay marriage was ma legal (they did so December 2018), the Bmbi vice-pta lled out Waratahs forward Jacqu Potgieter for twice llg two teammat “faggot” durg a Super Rugby match. Pock mend him for year, the midst of the Israel Fol “hell awas” gay people saga, he openly poted the fger at his Wallabi lleague for g his platform an “credibly disappotg” way.
Whether there was a homophobic slur on the playg field or brandg on some boots that he wasn't happy about bee the boot was ma a sweatshop Asia.
THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
Send your suggtns via @newsHQ | @the_mattyoung7 David Pock (Super 15)The Wallabi skipper has been outspoken agast homophobia and is a strong advote of gay marriage.
He and his longtime partner, Emma Palandri, famoly refed to get married until gay upl were allowed to do the same—promptg some good-natured teasg when same-sex marriage was fally ma legal 2017. An evangelil Christian, Fol was reprimand for a seri of homophobic ments and social-media posts.
Only a few years ago, Pock himself was heavily cricized by the often nservative Atralian sports-media mentariat for stoppg a game to prott the homophobic tnts of an opposg player. Havg watched the Fol ntroversy unfold prr to the World Cup, I found jarrg to see the tournament beg wh Nigel Owens—an openly gay referee who has movgly spoken of the stggl wh his sexual inty that took him to the brk of suici—clad a jersey wh the emblem of Emirat Airl, the tournament’s sponsor. (Emirat is the flag rrier of Dubai, where homosexualy is still a crimal offense.
HUGE SUPPORT FOR FORMER WALLABI PLAYER WHO HAS E OUT AS GAY
Around the 67th mute of the tense, often nasty Super Rugby match between the Waratahs and the Bmbi, durg a break play, a strsed David Pock told the referee Craig Joubert: “There’s some homophobic slurs beg ma. ”“I didn’t hear anythg but I totally agree wh you, ’s unacceptable, ” Joubert told referee asked the Waratahs pta Michael Hooper to have a word to his forwards: “I’m gettg some pretty aggrsive ments g om your guys, that there are homophobic slurs (beg ma). He turned to Joubert and raised the matter aga wh him: “You heard that sir … you n’t say that, there uld be gay players out there.
DAN PALMER PRAISED AFTER BEG FIRST WALLABI PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
Pock is quoted by the news se as sayg: “…there’s no room for homophobic language our sport and we want to make clive… Where you start is quellg out that sort of language.
ASIE GBY PLAYER DAVID POCK SCHOOLS POLICIAN ON GAY MARRIAGE
”One of the problems wh the quick and cisive actn taken by the ARU is that none of the tails of the two cints when the homophobic word (said to be ‘faggot’) was spoken have been laid out. We know that Jacqu Potgieter ma the homophobic ments but we do not know who was ma to.
I make no judgment or re, but he is not a homosexual. ”As the nservative polil blogger Tim Blair has poted out, Potgieter has been fed for makg a gay slur to a player who is not elaborated on where Potgieter had gone wrong: “It was jt the fact that he makg generally rogatory ments and fairly aggrsive ments on a whole range of thgs and one of them was the specific homophobic one. ”This is hardly a rgg endorsement of Pock’s cisn to alert Joubert to Potgieter’s homophobic ment and, as a nsequence, make the cint a public Smh’s take on this is tertg.
00 pm, a media release om the ARU appeared my hotmail basket: JACQUES POTGIETER ISSUED $20, 000 FINE FOR HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTSThe media release noted that $10, 000 of the $20, 000 fe was spend. I’d like to strs aga that there is absolutely no place for homophobia or any form of discrimatn our game and our actns and words on and off the field mt reflect that. ”Havg ma this strong statement about the how unacceptable homophobic ments are gby, the media release end somewhat wh a whimper: “The ARU, Waratahs, the gby unn Players’ Associatn (RUPA) and the player himself (Potgieter) have termed that the matter do not need to be heard by a Tribunal and accepted this penalty.