Gay footballer Zanr Murray on g out stggle and BBC film

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Gay Sttish footballer Zanr Murray opens up about his stggl wh ternalised homophobia a new BBC documentary.

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BRA'S GAY FOOTBALLERS

Amal Fashanu tri to disver why no profsnal football players e out as beg gay. * bbc news gay footballer *

BBC Three - Bra's Gay Footballers. Amal Fashanu go on a missn to disver why no profsnal football player has followed her late uncle Jt's boots over twenty years and e out publicly as gay.

There are currently around 5, 000 profsnal footballers Bra, but credibly not one of them has e out publicly as gay. Amal Fashanu, niece of Jt Fashanu, the only ever openly gay Brish profsnal, go on a missn to disver why no gay player has followed her uncle's boots over twenty years.

GAY FOOTBALLER ZANR MURRAY SAYS HIS 20S FELT LIKE PERSONAL ‘NVERSN THERAPY’

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Wnsg the typil chants om opposg fans on the terrac at Brighton, Amal n immediately see why gay players will not put their heads above the parapet. But one of Bra's most famo gay football fans, Matt Lus, tells her that the problem extends beyond the fans.

JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY

Max Clifford, who reveals he has helped several Premiership stars keep their homosexualy secret orr to prerve their reers, go further by sistg that the mentaly of most people and around the game remas the Dark Ag.

The Premiership's most ntroversial and outspoken player, Joey Barton, who like Amal has a gay uncle, exprs 'py' for his fellow profsnals who lack the urage to speak out on the subject, but blam the game's homophobia on some of the 'archaic figur' who n the game.

Amal also gas accs to a profsnal game official prepared to e forward and meet her to discs life as a gay man si the game, but the polics of the game prevent him.

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

Gay Sttish footballer Zanr Murray opens up about his stggl wh ternalised homophobia a new BBC documentary. That was when the ternalised homophobia jt built and built and built.

Zanr Murray, now 31, me out publicly September, beg the first openly gay senr Sttish footballer history. “Beg a gay person that environment was seen as ferr.

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I don’t thk they were necsarily homophobic, ’s jt a lack of tn… and that has a huge impact. The issue of homophobia football is teased out Zanr Murray’s new BBC documentary, Disclosure: Out on the Pch.

“The documentary is about my life, me growg up as a young gay player a profsnal set up, talkg about the difficulti I had, my stggl, ” says Murray, who joed League Two si Bonnyrigg Rose January.

“I also wanted to try [to] change perceptns of that homophobic father who’s givg his son or dghter, or whatever they intify as, a tough time. “Homophobic slurs at gam are fely not out of the game.

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