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• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY MALE FOOTBALLER 32 YEARS
• FIRST OPENLY GAY BRISH FOOTBALL PLAYER FASHANU MAK HALL OF FAME
• THE HARROWG STORY OF THE UK’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER ENGLAND SCE JT FASHANU: JAKE DANIELS LATT WORLD FOOTBALLER TO E OUT
• JAKE DANIELS CAME OUT BEG THE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER IN 30 YEARS
• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• 17-YEAR-OLD IS FIRST ACTIVE UK PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY S
• FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ANNOUNC ROLE NEW RUPL'S DRAG RACE SERI

JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990

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. 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”. ESPNMay 16, 2022, 12:35 PM ETBlackpool's Jake Daniels has bee the first active openly gay profsnal male footballer the UK sce 1990 after g out publicly and makg an announcement on 17-year-old recently signed a profsnal ntract wh the Champnship team and ma his club but earlier this month. Speakg to Sky Sports, Daniels said he hop he n bee a role mol for others and hop there will be a gay Premier League footballer the 17 LGBTQ+ athlet share their g out journeys"Of urse I am aware that there will be a reactn to this and some of will be homophobic, maybe a stadium and on social media, " he said.

BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY MALE FOOTBALLER 32 YEARS

✊?️‍? — FIFPRO (@FIFPRO) May 16, 2022 Jt Fashanu beme the first openly gay male Brish footballer 1990 but took his own life at the age of 37, eight years after g out publicly to the Fashanu, there has not been a sgle male player to publicly e out durg his playg reer. "Daniels be the latt male athlete to e out after Alai Uned's Josh Cavallo beme the only openly gay top-flight male profsnal player world football at the time last June, Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. "I n't really put a date on , but I was probably five or six years old when I knew I was gay.

"At that age you don't really thk that football and beg gay don't mix.

FIRST OPENLY GAY BRISH FOOTBALL PLAYER FASHANU MAK HALL OF FAME

FILE PHOTO: Football - Stock Jt Fashanu - Norwich Cy Mandatory Cred: Actn Imag/File PhotoMANCHESTER, England (Rters) - Bra’s first and only openly gay footballer, Jt Fashanu, is to be posthumoly ducted to the Hall of Fame at the Natnal Football Mm Manchter this week, Sky Sports reported on former Norwich Cy and Nottgham Fort striker took his own life 1998 aged 37, eight years after g out publicly to the prs. Fashanu, whose move to Fort 1981 ma him the first black footballer to mand a one ln pounds transfer fee, will be regnised at a ceremony on will jo more than 100 male players the English Football Hall of Fame, which was set up 2002 to honour those who have ma an outstandg ntributn to the niece Amal, who ns The Jt Fashanu Foundatn which highlights issu of homophobia and other forms of discrimatn football, will llect the award. “I gus for Jt this would be a great moment and I thk ’s a pivotal moment when we are fally regnisg who Jt Fashanu was, not only as the openly gay footballer, but also as a very talented footballer and the first ln-pound black player England, ” she told Sky Sports.

A new documentary om Adam Darke looks back on his 09 October, 2017Text by Alex Robert RossJt Fashanu was the first openly gay footballer the Uned Kgdom. At Fort, mours spread about his late-night trips to the cy’s gay clubs; he’d go AWOL for days at a time and Clough was censed.

In Forbidn Gam, Fashanu’s agent, Bernard Mendy, says, “Jt Fashanu’s reer at Nottgham Fort end bee he was gay.

THE HARROWG STORY OF THE UK’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

“He was homosexual. The week after the story The Sun, John gave an exclive terview to The Voice unr the headle “John Fashanu: My Gay Brother Is an Outst” and followed that up wh more homophobic ments to the prs. In a 2012 terview wh TalkSport, he said that he didn’t thk that Jt was gay after all, that his brother was merely seekg attentn.

FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER ENGLAND SCE JT FASHANU: JAKE DANIELS LATT WORLD FOOTBALLER TO E OUT

They clu a Margaret Thatcher quote om 1987: “Children who need to be tght to rpect tradnal moral valu are beg tght that they have an alienable right to be gay… all of those children are beg cheated of a sound start life. ” A ltle later, there’s a clip om a speech by the Tory MP Elae Kellett-Bowman who lls homosexualy “unhygienic” and “a perversn. “If you said to me, how would a homosexual player be received today?

“In terms of his upbrgg and beg a black boy and then a black footballer that era, and then havg to al wh all the issu that me his way bee of that, and then g out as the first openly gay footballer and alg wh the fallout om that — y, to a large gree, circumstanc dictated his downfall, ” Darke says. Blackpool FC star Jake Daniels has taken the spiratnal step of beg the first male English profsnal footballer to publicly e out as gay over two 17-year-old spoke exclively to Sky Sports followg his cisn to make the statement after breakg to the Seasirs first team 2022.

JAKE DANIELS CAME OUT BEG THE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER IN 30 YEARS

Daniels' move has been met wh wispread onle support as a bold step towards greater openns of LGBT muni wh terview as part of a posive move towards addrsg fears over negativy and abe followg Alai Uned star Josh Cavallo breakg down barriers as the only gay currently active profsnal player English Premier League schle: Updated TV, streamg for every 2021-22 EPL soccer match USAFirst openly gay English footballer sce FashanuDaniels' ccial terview has opened a necsary nversatn over the willgns of profsnal footballers to openly e out. However, his move to bee the first English-based footballer to publicly e out, will voke memori of former Notts Country striker Jt Fashanu — Josh Cavallo (@JoshuaCavallo) October 27, 2021Fashanu me out as part of an exclive terview wh The Sun newspaper but a staed public backlash to the report effectively end his profsnal brave move remaed as the only example of a English player to do so wh former Aston Villa midfielr Tomas Hzlsperger wag until retirement before g gay football players around the worldAlongsi Josh Cavallo, male players based Atralia and the Uned Stat have publicly e out, wh Daniels beg a ground breaker England. — Sky News (@SkyNews) May 16, 2022"In school people even ed to ask me: 'Are you sure you aren't gay?

"It's a day of great importance for English football"Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher discs Blackpool's Jake Daniels g out as gay - the first UK profsnal footballer to do so publicly sce 1990 — Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) May 16, 2022Well played, @Jake_Daniels11.

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Jake Daniels jt ma history as the UK’s only active male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay.

GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

Explag his cisn to live openly as a gay man, Daniels told Sky that now felt like “the right time to do . Webse, Daniels wrote that he has known his “whole life” that he is gay and has been “hidg the real me and who I really am. ” Meanwhile, Daniels also creded fellow openly-gay footballers Josh Cavallo and Matt Morton, and Brish divg champ Tom Daley for their “urage and termatn to drive change.

17-YEAR-OLD IS FIRST ACTIVE UK PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY S

Per the Guardian, Alai Uned player Cavallo, who me out as gay October 2021, said he is “very proud” of Daniels “for his bravery. "Blackpool forward Jake Daniels speaks exclively on beg the UK's first male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay sce Jt talks about g out to his parents, his club, and his team-mat.

I n't really put a date on , but I was probably five or six years old when I knew I was gay. Zanr Murray signs for Bonnyrigg Rose to bee only openly gay player SPFL. Jake Daniels: England's only openly gay active footballer reveals Tom Daley spired him to e out.

FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ANNOUNC ROLE NEW RUPL'S DRAG RACE SERI

Jt Fashanu: LGBTQ+ Norwich fan group raisg money to stall statue of first openly gay footballer.