Blue Magaze wrote an article about pneerg gay sportsman Matt Hall prr to his partakg Sydney's Gay Gam 2002 as a basketballer. In the landmark article he talked about some of the landmark moments his life, cludg his heterosexual marriage before he me out as a gay man, his r accint where…
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- MATT HALL PAVED THE WAY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ASIE L PLAYER
- GAY ASIE L PLAYERS - ARE YOU OUT THERE?
- ASIE FOOTBALLERS IN SNDAL AFTER ALLEGEDLY PERFORMG GAY SEX ACT IN PUBLIC
- THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
MATT HALL PAVED THE WAY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ASIE L PLAYER
The first openly gay Asie Rul player via Blue Magaze, 2002. Blue Magaze wrote an article about pneerg gay sportsman Matt Hall prr to his partakg Sydney’s Gay Gam 2002 as a basketballer.
In the landmark article he talked about some of the landmark moments his life, cludg his heterosexual marriage before he me out as a gay man, his r accint where he had to rever om juri and for the first time felt mortal his life.
GAY ASIE L PLAYERS - ARE YOU OUT THERE?
At that time would’ve been near impossible for him to be out as a gay man, nsirg he’d already been ostracised by some his social circle due to his HIV stat. So his credible g out story through Blue magaze was a blsg for gay sportg people Atralia and worldwi. Hall said the 2nd openly gay Asie Rul player Jason Ball has “erased my own” legacy by “him ntug to claim he was the first to e out spe beg a later 2012.
SportThis was published 19 years agoDpe support, any gay footballers are keepg quiet. When big-htg gby league prop forward Ian Roberts me out 1995 and told the world he was gay, many thought the fal closet had opened.
ASIE FOOTBALLERS IN SNDAL AFTER ALLEGEDLY PERFORMG GAY SEX ACT IN PUBLIC
But as history has proved across sport, is not easy to be a gay sports star - pecially if you're a man.
Most statistics pot to between 5 and 10 per cent of the populatn beg gay: Atralian Rul Football is more than 100 years old and wh about 680 ntracted AFL players this year, the numbers suggts not everyone's beg hont.
THE GAY MAN'S GUI TO ATRALIAN FOOTBALL'S HOTTT HUNKS
Why has there never been an openly gay Atralian Rul footballer? Coburg Football Club print Phil Cleary said he played agast a very tough and skilled footballer at a senr level of Atralian Rul who was gay. Mr Clearly said the man remaed unwillg to talk about the issue bee he did not want to be remembered as "the gay footballer".
McGuire appears on the ont ver of this month's issue of glossy gay monthly QMagaze and is quoted as sayg he would be "rapt" if Collgwood was the first club to have an openly gay player. McGuire said he uld not speak for other clubs on their attu towards gay footballers but add he was prepared to give Richmond the benef of the doubt over s cisn not to allow star rec Nathan Brown play a gay doctor on The Footy Show. "I am prepared to back the Tigers that wasn't homophobic, although appeared at the time that was, " McGuire said.
Carlton print Ian Colls told The Sunday Age that Carlton would have no problems draftg a gay player or if one of their players clared he was homosexual. Richard Watts, head of Collgwood's gay supporter group the Pk Magpi, suggted there remaed "a strong, but fairly vert, level of homophobia football which is a real discentive to e out". He said the AFL was unlikely to al wh the issue of gay footballers until one was intified.