Gay cricketers won’t e out until 'stigma' is tackled, boss warned

Contents:

• GAY CRICKET STAR ALEX BLACKWELL SAYS SHE’S TIRED OF LBIANS SPORT BEG ‘PROFILED AS PREDATORS’
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• THE GAY ATRALIAN CRICKET CHAMPNS AND TEAMMAT JT GOT MARRIED
• GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED
• ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE
• GAY CRICKET STAR MEGAN SCHUTT SLAMS ‘FURIATG’ MYTH
• HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY

GAY CRICKET STAR ALEX BLACKWELL SAYS SHE’S TIRED OF LBIANS SPORT BEG ‘PROFILED AS PREDATORS’

But an creasg number of openly gay female cricketers are experiencg the petive dilemmas.

The outlet Cricket Monthly recently ran a long feature story on the phenomenon of openly gay female cricket players. While Bnt and Sciver are one of only three engaged or married upl who play on the same ternatnal cricket team, there are gay players all over the sport.

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A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Seven years ago, Alex Blackwell beme the first female ternatnal cricket player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, she’s fought tirelsly for LGBTQ equaly her native Atralia, and rpect for gay female athlet.

THE GAY ATRALIAN CRICKET CHAMPNS AND TEAMMAT JT GOT MARRIED

It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

GAY CRICKETERS WON’T E OUT UNTIL ‘STIGMA’ IS KNOCKED FOR SIX, BOSS WARNED

Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. Openly gay cricketers? Apart om Alex Blackwell and Steven Davi, are there any other openly gay cricketers?

ATRALIAN CRICKET STAR ELYSE VILLANI OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT BEG GAY MEANS FOR HER AS A PRO ATHLETE

Although Sciver me out to her fay weeks before she and Bnt began datg, she has also stggled wh ternalized homophobia, avoidg discsns and hidg her engagement rg to not reveal her same-sex relatnship.

GAY CRICKET STAR MEGAN SCHUTT SLAMS ‘FURIATG’ MYTH

Cricketer Steve Davi is the first and only English male pro to e out as gay. Gay cricket ach and activist Sam Schofield has cricised the England and Wal Cricket Board (ECB) for “lettg down” the LGBTQ+ muny.

After Jake Daniels beme England’s first pro male footballer to e out as gay more than three s, Schofield spoke of the need for more LGBTQ+ role mols cricket. Comparatively, the women’s divisn has players like Natalie Sciver and Kathere Bnt, an openly gay cricketer uple.

HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

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.