In 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the first football player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, only seventeen players have done the same.
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- 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
- US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP
8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
Anti-gay athlet baseball, soccer, hockey and gby have missed the pot of rabow uniforms. * gay soccer uniform *
"Cyd Zeigler, who scrib himself as a gay sports wrer, h out at the backlash, scribg as "crazy" that Amerins would turn their back on the team bee of this tweeted: "LOL the 'Amerins' who are now sudnly hopg the US los at the #WorldCup bee the team has some rabow flags around the facily Qatar. Image hatg your untry jt bee s soccer team might not hate gay people. Qatar is the first Middle Eastern untry to host the soccer tournament and the lotn selectn has been hugely ntroversial due to Qatar’s vol anti-gay polici.
It is illegal to be gay the Mlim untry and a World Cup ambassador said homosexualy is “damage to the md” a recent terview wh a German TV statn, promptg many to ll for a boytt of the Fédératn Internatnale Football Associatn’s pnacle petn. Many players have voiced fears for gay and female fans travelg to the petn that only tak place every four years, ncerned that Qatar’s discrimatory laws uld endanger certa fans. Now ’s clear they started a misguid trend that is not-so-quietly buildg amongst anti-gay athlet sports around the world.
A few years ago, soccer player Jaelene Hkle refed to do the same, fflg que a few feathers women’s profsnal soccer, where so many gay athlet are out.
US MEN'S SOCCER TEAM CHANG LOGO TO PROMOTE GAY PRI AT WORLD CUP
I had prevly said I was rervg judgment of Daniels’ anti-gay past to see what she’d do next. Now ’s clear the Courage are embracg and employg a woman who fully rejects gay fans. Players of the Manly Sea Eagl Atralia, as well as Paris Sat Germa’s Idrissa Gueye om the rabidly anti-gay untry of Senegal, did the same last year.
The anti-gay athlet hi behd “the Bible” and other old-fashned cultural norms wh their refal, wh the Rays players jotly sayg “’s jt a liftyle that... It’s not easy to set asi what your parents, televisn, the news media, advertisements, some iends and your own relig lears told you about gay people for many years.
I was a uple s ago, but I’ve sce left my relig beliefs the rear-view mirror, part bee of how people like Daniels and the other anti-gay athlet have ed the relign I loved to beat me over the head wh the Bible. While the Rays players said their horribly wrten statement that they want gay people “to feel safe and wele here” at the ballpark, their sglg out of this one issue the Bible says otherwise. Instead, the athlet send the very clear polil msage that they don’t want gay people around.