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• ZANR MURRAY: GALA FAIRYAN ROVERS STRIKER BE FIRST OPENLY GAY STTISH PROFSNAL
• FOOTBALLER MURRAY 'BLOWN AWAY' BY SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST SENR STTISH MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY STTISH SOCCER PLAYER ZANR MURRAY IS THE SUBJECT OF A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• MARK SMH: I KNOW THERE ARE GAY FOOTBALLERS STLAND BEE I TRIED TO NVCE ONE TO GO PUBLIC
• HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS
• OPENLY GAY STS FOOTBALLER ZANR MURRAY SLAMS FIFA CRACKDOWN ON ONELOVE ARMBANDS AS ‘DIRECT ATTACK’ ON GMB
• ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST OPENLY GAY STTISH FOOTBALLER: "I THOUGHT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"
• ZANR MURRAY IS FIRST CURRENT STTISH PROFSNAL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• ZANR MURRAY: GALA FAIRYAN ROVERS STRIKER BE FIRST STTISH SENR FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
• STLAND'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ON BREAKG STEREOTYP AND HIS OWN LIBERATN
• MURRAY BE FIRST OPENLY GAY STTISH PROFSNAL PLAYER
• ZANR MURRAY: GALA FAIRYAN ROVERS STRIKER WAS LIVG FEAR BUT WEIGHT IS OFF HIS SHOULRS AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• ZANR MURRAY: GALA FAIRYAN ROVERS STRIKER WAS LIVG FEAR BUT WEIGHT IS OFF HIS SHOULRS AFTER G OUT AS GAY

ZANR MURRAY: GALA FAIRYAN ROVERS STRIKER BE FIRST OPENLY GAY STTISH PROFSNAL

Gala Fairyan Rovers striker Zanr Murray has bee the first Sttish senr footballer to e out as is the first openly gay player the men's profsnal ranks Stland sce Jt Fashanu wh Airdrie and Hearts the 30-year-old Lowland League player follows the example of refere Craig Napier and Lloyd Wilson June. "Murray said that remag the closet was "playg havoc wh my life", so "I put a post on my social media tellg folk I was gay".

FOOTBALLER MURRAY 'BLOWN AWAY' BY SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

English striker Fashanu moved to Airdrieonians three years after g out as gay before later playg for Heart of Midlothian and remas the only openly gay player to play Stland's top tier.

Blackpool forward Jake Daniels ma what Murray scrib as his "amazg" cisn May, closely followed by the two Sttish refere, but the Gala striker is disappoted there are no platforms offerg support to young gay male footballers. "Of urse there are gay footballers our game and I have had lots of players get touch sayg they have read my post and they n't believe how strong I am by dog this, " Murray said.

Gala Fairyan Rovers forward Zanr Murray has bee the first senr Sttish football player to e out as is the first openly gay player the men’s profsnal game Stland sce Jt Fashanu wh Airdrie and Hearts the 30-year-old, who is his fourth season wh the Lowland League club, said he ma the cisn to help others who wish to open an terview wh the club webse, Murray said: “(It) feels like the weight of the world is now off my shoulrs.

ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST SENR STTISH MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY

Zanr Murray has a qutn: why is he the only gay male Sttish soccer player to ever e out?

Murray, who publicly me out as gay last fall, is the subject of a new BBC Stland Disclosure documentary that was released Monday. In , Murray speaks wh multiple LGBTQ fans, amatr players and out referee Lloyd Wilson about how anti-gay language hurts them. Jake Daniels, a teenage soccer player for Blackpool FC, said he was gay last May, beg the only out active pro player England.

In Murray’s BBC article, he c the importance of the Sttish Football Associatn troducg a new disciplary le that rults a 10-match ban for any player who engag homophobic tnts or other forms of discrimatory behavr. The new clse has been ed 22 tim this season, 17 of which were anti-gay offens.

GAY STTISH SOCCER PLAYER ZANR MURRAY IS THE SUBJECT OF A NEW DOCUMENTARY

As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards.

MARK SMH: I KNOW THERE ARE GAY FOOTBALLERS STLAND BEE I TRIED TO NVCE ONE TO GO PUBLIC

Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them.

Atralian striker Andy Brennan me out as gay 2019, beg the first out gay Atralian male footballer. He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w.

HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS

He me out as gay 2022. His early clubs knew he was gay, and he me out durg his reer, beg the first pro footballer to do so.

In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley. He later me out as gay and has sce spoken out about the difficulti queer players face. He me out as gay 2019.

The South Ain footballer beme Ai's first out, gay male footballer when he me out 2015. Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year. Later, he revealed he qu the sport as a rult of homophobia he faced when he me out.

OPENLY GAY STS FOOTBALLER ZANR MURRAY SLAMS FIFA CRACKDOWN ON ONELOVE ARMBANDS AS ‘DIRECT ATTACK’ ON GMB

YOU may have heard the pta of Celtic say over the weekend that he and his team would support a player who was gay. You may also have seen the tweets of someone lled “the gay footballer” who said he was about to go public.

But don’t thk any of this means we’re about to see an openly gay star the men’s game, or that football is on the verge of a breakthrough.

ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST OPENLY GAY STTISH FOOTBALLER: "I THOUGHT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"

READ MORE: What 's like to be a gay football fan Stland 2019. Don’t misunrstand what I’m sayg here: I’m not suggtg everyone football management is ol wh beg gay – even now, most managers are olr, workg-class men who are often the last to adapt to changg social attus.

Karren Brady, the former boss of Birmgham Cy, said the other day that her hband, Pl Pchisolido, had played wh Jt Fashanu the 1990s and no one the drsg room had a problem wh him beg gay. There are several clubs the UK now that have gay players who are hont about their sexualy wh the team and even take their partners to club events – they are jt not open about public.

The Celtic pta Stt Brown was also clearly beg hont when he said he would be supportive to a team-mate who was gay. And even players at Millwall (never the most metrosexual of clubs) have said don’t matter if a team-mate is gay.

ZANR MURRAY IS FIRST CURRENT STTISH PROFSNAL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

READ MORE: English men’s game uld soon have s first openly gay profsnal player. Recently, my lleague Neil Cameron spoke to one of the players wh the LGBT team HotSts FC, Craig Anrson, who said there have been tim when the homophobic abe he’s heard at gam has ma him wonr whether football is the game for him. One theory that am me is that the fans who are most vol wh homophobic abe are tryg to e to terms wh the fact they love a game that idolis physilly f young men.

ZANR MURRAY: GALA FAIRYAN ROVERS STRIKER BE FIRST STTISH SENR FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY

A game like football which the players are so unhibed about kissg and touchg each other should be the least homophobic of all, but some male fans may stggle wh that, so they shout about poofs and queers to try to prove to the rt of that they’re not terted the sight of players kissg and huggg other men.

The ia that homophobia football might be a problem wh specific typ of men rather than fans more generally is also borne out by the recent women’s world cup. Men’s profsnal football has virtually no openly gay players, but the women’s game is the oppose – is full of out gay women at the hight level. And even the homophobia the female players experience nfirms this is really a male problem we’re talkg about: some fans like to assume all female players are lbians bee they thk football is sentially a man’s sport and any woman who wants to play mt “want to be a man”.

You might thk the tweets om “the gay footballer” prove we are. It also disappoted a lot of football fans bee they know the game needs s first openly gay player. But until someone openly challeng the homophobia football by beg openly gay, the homophobia will not go away.

STLAND'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ON BREAKG STEREOTYP AND HIS OWN LIBERATN

Gay players will then bee more visible. And fally homophobia football will bee socially unacceptable. It seems that beg an out gay man and a soccer player is still somethg that’s greeted wh homophobia.

MURRAY BE FIRST OPENLY GAY STTISH PROFSNAL PLAYER

However, there have been several pneerg male gay footballers who cid to e out of the closet and proclaim their sexualy to the world. A w for gay rights and helpg to pave the way for other gay players to feel safe enough to e out of the closet.

ZANR MURRAY: GALA FAIRYAN ROVERS STRIKER WAS LIVG FEAR BUT WEIGHT IS OFF HIS SHOULRS AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Here are eight of some of the most well-known out-and-proud gay footballers. Consired the first openly gay male Ain soccer player, Lekoloane me out publicly 2015.

The South Ain player acknowledg that most of his teammat accepted his sexualy, however, he has faced homophobic slurs om opposg teams. He also said that he has met several closeted gay soccer players Ai, where homosexualy is crimalised several untri.

ZANR MURRAY: GALA FAIRYAN ROVERS STRIKER WAS LIVG FEAR BUT WEIGHT IS OFF HIS SHOULRS AFTER G OUT AS GAY

I don’t wish the hostily I felt on anyone, bee not everyone n survive homophobia a sport like football, ” he told MambaOnle recently. In Febary 2013, Amerin soccer player Robbie Rogers me out as gay.