Former Wal gby pta Gareth Thomas has spoken of his relief at fally makg public the fact he is gay -- and now wants to bee a role mol for gay people sport.
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- WHO IS GARETH THOMAS? OPENLY GAY WAL GBY UNN LEGEND AND REALY STAR DIAGNOSED WH HIV
- WAL GBY LEGEND GARETH THOMAS OUT AS GAY
- MEET GARETH THOMAS, FIRST GBY PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
- RUGBY STAR GARETH THOMAS: I'M GAY
- RUGBY PLAYER GRABS OPPONENT’S CROTCH AND A GAY FORMER PLAYER MAK A JOKE OF
- THE GBY WORLD FENDS OUT GAY ATHLETE, LASH OUT AT HOMOPHOBIA
- MOVIE ABOUT GAY RUGBY STAR CHANG LOTN
- HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
- THOMAS RELIEF AFTER ADMTG HE IS GAY
WHO IS GARETH THOMAS? OPENLY GAY WAL GBY UNN LEGEND AND REALY STAR DIAGNOSED WH HIV
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He me out as gay 2009, makg him the first openly gay profsnal gby unn player - and will be a star on ITV's new show The Real Full Monty on Ice.
2 The former Welsh ternatnal me out as gay after his marriage broke up and said he hoped would enurage other young gay gby playersCred: Getty Imag. When did Gareth Thomas e out as gay? In December 2009, Thomas announced publicly that he is gay.
WAL GBY LEGEND GARETH THOMAS OUT AS GAY
A former ternatnal gby star has shocked the sports world by revealg that he is gay. * gay rugby gareth *
He said he did not want to be known as a "gay gby player" but simply as a "gby player".
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MEET GARETH THOMAS, FIRST GBY PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
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Thomas said his terview wh the Daily Mail that he don’t want the world to know him as a gay gby player. “I don’t want to be known as a gay gby player.
RUGBY STAR GARETH THOMAS: I'M GAY
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He was also the first profsnal gby unn player to announce that he was gay, when he me out 2009. Thomas married his wife, Jemma, 2002, but they later divorced before he announced that he was gay 2009. STORY HIGHLIGHTSFormer ternatnal gby star Gareth Thomas of Wal reveals that he is gayThe 35-year-old is the sport's first high-profile name to acknowledge beg homosexualHe married his childhood sweetheart 2002 but they are separated and gettg divorcedThomas retired om ternatnals 2007 as Wal' most-pped player (CNN) -- A former ternatnal gby star has shocked the sports world by revealg that he is gay.
RUGBY PLAYER GRABS OPPONENT’S CROTCH AND A GAY FORMER PLAYER MAK A JOKE OF
He is the first openly gay top-level gby player, although top referee Nigel Owens me out 2007. While homosexualy a macho such as gby is rarely acknowledged, top-level tennis players such as Billie Jean Kg, Marta Navratilova and Amelie Mrmo have discsed beg lbian.
I knew I would never be accepted as a gay man and still achieve what I wanted to achieve the game--Gareth Thomas. " He said he knew he had was gay om as young as 16 or 17, but hid as he sought to tablish his gby reer, later gog on to pta the Brish and Irish Lns and beg one of the top backs ternatnal gby. "I uld never accept bee I knew I would never be accepted as a gay man and still achieve what I wanted to achieve the game, " he said.
THE GBY WORLD FENDS OUT GAY ATHLETE, LASH OUT AT HOMOPHOBIA
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MOVIE ABOUT GAY RUGBY STAR CHANG LOTN
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It got a b more bizarre when openly gay former player Gareth Thomas ma light of the cint and then later apologized. While some fans tweeted that they jt wnsed a sexual asslt, Gareth Thomas, a former Wal star who me out as gay 2009, ma a joke of his pacy as a match analyst. A gay player makg a joke about wantg his crotch grabbed?
HEARD OF THE STEELERS? NO, NOT THEM, THE GAY GBY TEAM OM LONDON
Thomas has been an amazg role mol for other gay players by and beyond, so he gets a pass on this beg nothg more than a bad attempt at humor on live TV that fell flat. Former Wal pta and ternatnal gby star turned LGBT mpaigner Gareth Thomas has been acced of “ceptively” transmtg HIV to an 48-year-old is beg sued the High Court by his former boyiend Ian Bm for allegedly hidg his HIV stat and “failg to take reasonable re” not to pass the fectn Thomas reportedly tends to strongly ntt the reprentativ were ntacted for a 's reported if Mr Bm ws urt, he uld claim damag of £150, 000 or pair were a relatnship between me out as gay 2009 and revealed his HIV stat publicly 2019.
THOMAS RELIEF AFTER ADMTG HE IS GAY
“That rmatn, had bee publicly known, would have been extremely damagg to the fendant’s public reputatn as a person who had spoken out about his homosexualy and LGBTQ issu, ” urt documents said. ”Mr Thomas ma history 2009 by beg the world’s first openly gay gby reer clus 100 ps for Wal, reprentg the untry four Rugby World Cups, and beg the Brish and Irish Lns publicly revealed he was livg wh HIV 2019 and ss on the HIV Commissn, which aims to end new s of the disease by De of Ssex attends a Terrence Higgs Tst event wh former Wal gby pta Gareth Thomas Cred: Steve Parsons/PATo raise awarens of the ndn, he filmed a documentary wh Prce Harry for the Terrence Higgs Tst and produced his own programme, Gareth Thomas: HIV And Bm said he felt “vulnerable and unsure about his future” after his diagnosis but was “very much love wh” Mr Thomas and vastated he had been “ceived”.
Rugby players and clubs around the world are rpondg wh roundg uny to the homophobic attack agast out gay gby star Gareth Thomas. Thomas, who was a star gby player for Cardiff and Wal’ natnal team, was the victim of a physil anti-gay attack recently. Dear @gareththomas14, All of French Rugby is wh you regardg the homophobic moltatn you’ve been victim show our support, the French gby players will wear a rabow shoe lace durg the France – Fidji game on Saturday night.
What’s tertg about the French wearg the Rabow Lac and unndnally supportg the LGBTQ muny is that recently we were told that somehow the sports world France is jt so much more anti-gay than everywhere else. Team USA pta Blae Scully also wore Rabow Lac to monstrate support for Thomas and gay athlet.