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The Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has end s of silence wh men’s football to bee the first player the UK to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990.

Photograph: Pl Dennis/TGS Photo/ShutterstockDaniels’s revelatn is a strikg landmark that when men’s football is more engaged wh social issu than any recent time, but still unable to ce progrs LGBTQ reprentatn wh the year Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo beme the only male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay, but others are yet to follow.

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In six months the men’s World Cup will be played Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, and Cavallo revealed to the Guardian he would be “sred” to play at the tournament, the pnacle of world English football specifilly, the shadow of the talented and unfulfilled Fashanu still lgers over the game. The England ternatnal me out at the end of his reer and was to take his own life eight years later, Fashanu, Jt’s niece, who ns a charable foundatn his name, said that Daniels’s cisn would “e as a huge fort to the many footballers at all levels of the game still secretly livg as gay and who still feel unable to e out”. “The only time I saw any evince of homophobia at Heyford was om the team manager.

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This cint, scribed Neil Beasley’s 2016 book tled Football’s Comg Out, is one of many exampl to showse the ia that homophobia is arguably ltered football culture. As a rult, many LGBTQ+ people avoid participatg football due to the unfortable environment that is a rult of ep-rooted homophobia that exists the game.

One stat which is really damng illtrat that 66 per cent of lbian, gay, bi and trans people felt that there were problems wh homophobia and transphobia sport and that this acted as a barrier to LGBT people takg part. The ath of Jt Fashanu, who was the first profsnal player to e out, raised the qutn as to why there uldn’t be an openly gay footballer playg at the top level.

Thankfully, the Gay Football Supporters Network set up the GFSN League, which is the world’s only natnal league that is aimed at the LGBTQ+ muny and is open to all. “Now I’d never heard of a natnal gay football league, ” ex-player and Coventry Cy fan Beasley adms his tobgraphy, when relayg his memori om his playg days. Beasley, after fdg out about the prospect of playg ‘gay football’, signed for Birmgham Blaze.

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“Last year, we were supposed to have our annual Charlton v Homophobia football tournament at the Valley if wasn’t for lockdown.

You know that the big clubs re about the muny relatn to helpg tackle homophobia wh fanbas. Now some of those players may never have e across any gay players the past, but that’s the power of the betiful game – to brg everyone together and uned the form of kickg out all discrimatn football.

Havg the clive clubs sttered around the untry e wh the risk of backlash om homophobic people who may play for regular teams. Fortunately, acrdg to experienced player Gnaw, the cints of homophobia are not a regular occurrence and as rult, monstrat the willgns and acceptance that many regular clubs have when to clive clubs.

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“Apparently a ment was said somethg along the l of ‘oh yeah, this is the gay team.

We played them off the park, and after the game their players were shakg our hands, almost as if the penny had dropped to the fact that gays n play well. Who would have thought a posive would have e om a homophobic experience?

“The feelg of knowg you have been endorsed as a gay man playg for a Charlton team – I want to feel that same feelg.

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Jake Daniels, 17, me out as gay on Monday.

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