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

Blackpools Jake Daniels tells his story to Sky Sports about beg the UKs first male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990 * blackpool footballer comes out gay *

"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.

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER OUT AS GAY

Blackpool's Jake Daniels be the only profsnal footballer to e out as gay, while still playg, for more than 30 years. * blackpool footballer comes out 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. Jt Fashanu: LGBTQ+ Norwich fan group raisg money to stall statue of first openly gay footballer.

At that age you don't really thk that football and beg gay don't mix. In school people even ed to ask me: "Are you sure you aren't gay? It's been subject of beg gay, or bi or queer men's football is still a taboo.

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

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * blackpool footballer comes out gay *

And people see beg gay as beg weak, somethg you n be picked on for on the football field. 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 's an easy thg for people to target.

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER, 17, OUT, BEG ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER BRA

Three players are ntact wh the Football Associatn about g out as gay, acrdg to MP John Nilson. * blackpool footballer comes out gay *

Football v Homophobia: "Football v Homophobia would like to ngratulate Jake on takg this step to share his thentic self the men's profsnal game, pecially at such a young age.

"There have prevly been players who felt that they had no place the game as out gay men durg their playg reers, but Jake is showg the world that you n be yourself.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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To e out publicly as the first openly gay player men's profsnal football the UK the last 30 years tak urage. Media ptn, WATCH: 'I am ready to be myself' - Jake DanielsJake Daniels is the first profsnal footballer the UK men's game for more than 30 years to e out as gay while still playg. "I've known my whole life that I'm gay, and I now feel that I'm ready to e out and be myself.

"Before Jake, Josh Cavallo - who plays for Alai Uned Atralia - was the only openly gay top-flight male profsnal footballer the world, havg e out last do 'g out' mean?

Comg out of the closet, often shortened to g out, is when a person shar wh others that they are lbian, gay, bi and/or trans (LGBT) out is different for everyone and n take some time to get to a pot where someone feels fortable and nfint enough to tell other is this important? Only four male profsnal football players who have played the UK have shared that they were gay - Thomas Beattie, Jt Fashanu, Thomas Hzlsperger and Robbie Jake Daniels, only Jt Fashanu revealed he was gay whilst he was still playg football 1990. The other three shared that they were gay after retirg om after g out Jt Fashanu suffered om homophobic bullyg and harassment before he died do LGBTQ+ stand for?

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Blackpool footballer Jake Daniels has scribed his partner as his 'soulmate' a year after g out as gay * blackpool footballer comes out gay *

LGBTQ+ stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. The + is an clive symbol to mean 'and others' to clu people of all ptn, WATCH: Gay footballers talk about their experienc the game (June 2020)Thomas Beattie, who was a former youth player for English club Hull Cy, said that he felt that he uldn't announce that he was gay while still playg: "I lerally felt like I had to sacrifice one of the two: who I am, or the sport I loved, " he there are now chari and anisatns that mpaign to make football more clive and a safe place for the LGBTQ+ muny.

"To e out publicly as the first openly gay player men's profsnal football the UK the last 30 years tak urage.

"'I want to be a role mol'Media ptn, What is homophobia? Speakg about how g out will change his life Daniels said: "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.

BLACKPOOL STRIKER JAKE DANIELS SAYS HE HAS FOUND HIS 'SOULMATE' AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY LAST YEAR

Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen, who joed the team last year, me out publicly as gay an terview wh Outsports published on Thursday, beg the first ach a U.S. men’s profsnal league to do so" emprop="scriptn * blackpool footballer comes out gay *

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

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”. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

Former Aston Villa and Wt Ham player Thomas Hzlsperger me out after he fished playg EnglandThree players are ntact wh the Football Associatn about g out as gay, acrdg to MP John ma the ments durg a Department of Culture, Media and Sport hearg to homophobia BBC unrstands the FA disput the MP's ments - though says would support any players who chose October, FA chairman Greg Clarke told MPs that Premier League players would suffer "signifint abe" if they chose to reveal they are gay. "In rponse, Nilson said that Clarke had been ved back to prent an actn plan to MPs, bee was "not good enough" to say an openly gay player would suffer abe.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

"Jt Fashanu beme the first player England to e out as gay 1990, but took his own life aged 37 1998.

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