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• LIVERPOOL APPLD 'STRENGTH AND BRAVERY' OF OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLOLIVERPOOL HAVE SENT THEIR SUPPORT TO JOSH CAVALLO AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY ON SOCIAL MEDIALIVERPOOLECHOBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYJAKE BAYLISSFOOTBALL TRENDS WRER14:47, 27 OCT 2021BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWFOLLOW THE LATT TRANSFER NEWS AND MORE WH OUR LFC NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 FOLLOW THE LATT TRANSFER NEWS AND MORE WH OUR LFC NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• JURGEN KLOPP: PLAYERS WOULD NEVER HAVE PROBLEM WH GAY TEAMMATE G OUT
• A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE
• JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY - REACTN
• JOSH CAVALLO RECEIVED SUPPORT OM THE 38 PRO SOCCER PLAYERS AND CLUBS AFTER G OUT AS GAY

LIVERPOOL APPLD 'STRENGTH AND BRAVERY' OF OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLOLIVERPOOL HAVE SENT THEIR SUPPORT TO JOSH CAVALLO AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY ON SOCIAL MEDIALIVERPOOLECHOBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYJAKE BAYLISSFOOTBALL TRENDS WRER14:47, 27 OCT 2021BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWFOLLOW THE LATT TRANSFER NEWS AND MORE WH OUR LFC NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 FOLLOW THE LATT TRANSFER NEWS AND MORE WH OUR LFC NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

The 21-year-old beme the only current openly gay male top-flight profsnal footballer, after he shared an open letter on social media.

JURGEN KLOPP: PLAYERS WOULD NEVER HAVE PROBLEM WH GAY TEAMMATE G OUT

"Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself bee I was ashamed - ashamed I would never be able to do what I loved and be gay. "Growg up beg gay and playg football were jt two worlds that hadn't crossed paths before.

” The number of openly gay footballers the women’s game is signifintly higher than the men’s si of the sport. Former Everton midfielr and Germany ternatnal Thomas Hzlsperger is one of the most high-profile openly gay male footballers, havg e out publilly 2014 after he retired. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp believ any player g out as gay would receive the full support of his teammat, but admted the rponse of crowds uld be an issue.

Alai Uned midfielr Josh Cavallo publicly announced he was gay last week and revealed he knew there were other players “livg silence. ”The Liverpool manager is nfint om his experienc the game that is not the attu of fellow players that would dissua someone om g out as gay. ” he Marrs play the Gay Football Supporters Network (GFSN) league, which is the world’s only natnal league aimed at the LGBT+ travel up and down the UK, takg on teams om plac like London, Glasgow, Newstle, Bristol, Leicter and Brighton.

A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 61 OUT GAY PLAYERS THE WOMEN’S FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE

“For him, Stonewall was a place for gay people to feel fortable playg football and when he returned to Liverpool, he realised there was nothg like that up here. “We were the only team of s kd around at the time, and Liverpool’s gay scene is not as big as, say, Manchter or London. ”The Lisbon is Liverpool’s most well-known gay pub, and is also the Marrs’ long-standg sponsor.

JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY - REACTN

“They are really helpful to the gay muny as a whole Liverpool. “He was om Malawi, where is actually illegal to be gay, ” he says.

JOSH CAVALLO RECEIVED SUPPORT OM THE 38 PRO SOCCER PLAYERS AND CLUBS AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Though signifint progrs has been ma, homophobia wh the game remas Newton and Johnson discs the issue which arose at Liverpool earlier this season, when the club nmned chants om s own supporters, aimed at Norwich’s on-loan Chelsea midfielr Billy Gilmour durg a game at Carrow Road last the wake of that cint, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp met wh Pl Amann, the former Marrs chairman and the founr of ‘Kop Outs’, a fan group formed 2016 to provi a voice for LGBT+ supporters, to help te and raise awarens as to why chants such as the Norwich one are so offensive, appropriate and unacceptable. ”Newton, meanwhile, is enuraged by the way which the world reacted to Josh Cavallo, the Alai Uned fenr, beg the first current top-flight male footballer to e out as gay last year.

“In today’s environment, where there are creased homophobic attacks and creased homophobic rhetoric, both here the UK and globally, is great to see the support he has had and will help massively wh players who may be stgglg at the moment or the future wh g out.