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New Zealand cricketer Heath Davis played five Tts and 11 ODIs for the Black Caps. He said his club teammat Auckland knew he was gay, and that, for the most part, "didn't seem to be that big an issue". 

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HEATH DAVIS BE FIRST MALE NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY

Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg gay * gay test cricketers *

Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis has bee the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly speak about beg, 50, played five Tts and 11 one-day ternatnals for the Black Caps between 1994 and 1997 and was known as an timidatg, if nsistent, pace s after his Tt but, Davis publicly revealed his sexualy for the first time, an episo of the documentary seri Scratched: Aotearoa’s Lost Sportg first ternatnal male cricketer to e out publicly was the former England wicketkeeper Steven Davi was durg Davis’s first tour to England 1994 when he started to really disver himself, he told The Spoff, though he had told his mother at an early age he was gay. ”He gused some of his teammat knew he was gay before he told a uple of them 1997 but he was never qutned about . “I certaly wasn’t livg a gay life, wasn’t part of the scene, didn’t have a partner.

There was nothg to tie to, if you know what I mean, ” Davis entered his first gay relatnship when he was 27 years old, while playg for Wellgton, but he was reluctant to appear public as a uple. When an offer of a ntract me om Auckland, Davis saw an opportuny to move away om the cy he did not felt fortable beg out the uple ma the move to Auckland, Davis told his new team’s manager he was gay, which was passed on to his team members and “didn’t seem to be that big an issue” is now on a new journey – one that exists tensn wh his sexualy. Photograph: supplied by Heath DavisAn ternatnal study on homophobia sport, released May, revealed that New Zealand gay and bisexual men were the most likely to keep their sexualy secret both youth and adult sports, wh many sayg they feared bullyg om teammat and discrimatn om ach and than half of all participants believed team sport is more homophobic than the rt of New Zealand society, while gay men were much more likely to believe this (69%) than anyone Wellgton Firebirds player, Stephen Mather, said Davis told him about his sexualy 1997, when there were no other outwardly gay men playg first class cricket at that time.

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Former New Zealand cricketer Heath Davis out as gay and discs the lonels he faced while “reprsg” his sexualy for years. * gay test cricketers *

”Homophobic attus sport still very much exist, said Malee Chapman, The Spoff’s edor and producer of the documentary seri. But what if we assumed our fashnista Indian cricketers to be Gay!

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Virat might be a ‘relatnship’ wh Anhka Sharma but he were to be gay, we uld easily p him agast latter’s former flame, Ranveer Sgh. Ishant Sharma – Kunal KapoorIf we are lookg for a perfect life-partner for Ishant Sharma (here gay), then our heads turn to none other than Kunal Kapoor. Former New Zealand Tt player Heath Davis is the untry’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly e out as gay.

Former New Zealand cricketer Heath Davis has e out as gay and revealed the lonels he faced “reprsg” his sexualy for years. He is New Zealand’s first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly e out as gay.

I wasn’t leadg a gay life. Davis shared how everyone on the Auckland team knew he was gay, and he felt like “didn’t seem to be that big of an issue”. He said there were no other out gay men playg first-class cricket at the time, and he said there were some “pretty old-school attus” cricket back then.

FORMER NEW ZEALAND PACER HEATH DAVIS PUBLICLY COM OUT AS GAY

Former England wicket-keeper Steven Davi beme the first male ternatnal cricketer to publicly e out as gay 2011. Openly gay cricketers?

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Apart om Alex Blackwell and Steven Davi, are there any other openly gay cricketers?

Sydney: A fe swg bowler for Atralia's women's cricket team and a champn of same-sex marriage, Megan Schutt is upset wh her male unterparts Jam Pattson and Marc Stois' recent homophobic slurs. She wants men to be more receptive towards homosexualy as they are "attacked" more for beg gay.

SPORTHEATH DAVIS BE FIRST CURRENT OR FORMER NEW ZEALAND MEN'S CRICKETER TO E OUT AS GAY

She was asked about the recent cints which two Atralian players, Pattson and Stois, were sanctned for homophobic slurs on the field.

It's disappotg that we still e that language, and I don't believe that those boys actually are homophobic, I tly don't.

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Former Tt cricketer Heath Davis bravely out as gay .

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