Profsnal 'Gay Footballer' Behd Anonymo Twter Acunt Reveals His 'Comg Out' Date - Towleroad Gay News

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• JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY
• PROFSNAL ‘GAY FOOTBALLER’ BEHD ANONYMO TWTER ACUNT REVEALS HIS ‘COMG OUT’ DATE
• ‘GAY FOOTBALLER’ LET TWTER ACUNT WHOUT REVEALG INTY
• 'THE GAY FOOTBALLER' LET TWTER ACUNT
• ‘THE GAY FOOTBALLER,’ REAL OR NOT, CHALLENG ENGLISH SOCCER TO CHAMPN LGBT EQUALYWINNING GOALON TWTER “THE GAY FOOTBALLER” CLAIMS TO BE AN ENGLISH PRO-SOCCER PLAYER ABOUT TO E OUT. THAT HE’D BE ONE OF A KD SHOWS HOW URGENTLY CHANGE IS NEED “THE BETIFUL GAME.”TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 18, 2019 8:52AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 18, 2019 4:45AM EDT OPNPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTO GETTYWE ARE HERE AGA. A MALE ENGLISH PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER IS REPORTEDLY ABOUT TO E OUT AS GAY, AND THE TICK-TOCK HAS BEGUN ON THIS HISTORIC EVENT. THERE ARE NO PROFSNAL MALE FOOTBALLERS PRENTLY PLAYG ENGLAND WHO ARE OUT. THE G OUT WOULD CERTALY BE TIMELY, H AFTER THE WORLD CUP SUCCS OF THE U.S. WOMEN’S TEAM AND S MANY OUT-PLAYERS: MEGAN RAPOE, ASHLYN HARRIS, ALI KRIEGER, ADRIANNA FRANCH, TIERNA DAVIDSON, AND ACH JILL ELLIS. THAT IS, IF THE PERSON BEHD “THE GAY FOOTBALLER” TWTER ACUNT IS FOR REAL. THE ACUNT APPARENTLY BELONGS TO THE FOOTBALLER NCERNED, AND BURST TO LIFE ON JULY 5, WH A TWEET ANNOUNCG THAT HE WAS AN EFL (ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE) PLAYER, THAT HE HAD E OUT TO HIS FAY, THAT HE WAS UNR 23, AND WAS “A PROUD GAY MAN, HOPG TO BREAK THE MOULD.” HE WOULD SOON E OUT PUBLICLY, HE ADD. ON JULY 6, THE GAY FOOTBALLER REVEALED THAT HE HAD E OUT TO HIS CLUB’S MANAGER AND CHAIRMAN, AND RECEIVED THEIR SUPPORT, AND THEIR MMENT TO ENSURG THAT HE HAS THE RIGHT SUPPORT OM WH THE CLUB AND OUTSI WHEN HE OUT. HIS PLAYG AND POSN WH THE TEAM WILL NOT BE AFFECTED, HE WAS ASSURED. HIS LATT TWEET ELICED MORE HEADL. POSTED ON JULY 15, SAID THAT THE FOOTBALLER TENDS TO E OUT “AS SOON AS POSSIBLE” AND “I AM LOOKG TO GOG PUBLIC PRR TO THE START OF THE NEW SEASON.” HE HOP THAT OTHER CLOSETED LGBT PRO-SOCCER PLAYERS “N TAKE FORT AND HOPE OM SUCH DISCLOSURE AND N FEEL SUABLY EMPOWERED TO, IF SIRABLE, REACH THE SAME CISN.”HE ADD THAT HE HOP HE WILL ENURAGE OTHER GAY PEOPLE AT EVERY LEVEL OF THE GAME, OR THOSE WHO FELT THEIR SEXUALY PREVENTED THEM OM PLAYG . HIS G OUT, HE SAYS, HE HOP WILL BE A “TALYST FOR CHANGE.”SO WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN? THE NEW SOCCER SEASON STARTS AT THE BEGNG OF AUGT, SO IF THE GAY FOOTBALLER IS FOR REAL, THEN WE N EXPECT THIS MOMENTO G OUT TO HAPPEN WH THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT WE HAVE HOVERED SUCH TANTALIZG TERRORY. IN 2015, TWO STAR PLAYERS WERE MORED TO BE ABOUT TO E OUT. BACK THEN, MANCHTER UNED (AND ENGLAND) PLAYER LE SHAW NIED HE WAS ONE OF THEM.THE BUZZ AROUND THAT SUPPOSED G OUT ECHOED THE CURRENT BUZZ AROUND THE GAY FOOTBALLER. “THE STARS ARE THOUGHT TO BE PLANNG TO GO PUBLIC BEFORE THE START OF NEXT SEASON,” BRA’S MIRROR REPORTED. “WE N ALSO REVEAL THAT ANOTHER WELL-KNOWN PLAYER ME OUT TO IENDS 2011. BUT A HOMOPHOBIC WORD WAS THEN DBED PAT ACROSS HIS R. IT IS UNRSTOOD HE IS NOW RELUCTANT TO E OUT PUBLICLY SE HE IS THE TARGET FOR MORE ABE.”JT AS WH THE GAY FOOTBALLER, THOSE PLAYERS—ONE AN ENGLAND TERNATNAL—WERE UNRSTOOD TO HAVE ALREADY TOLD FAY AND IENDS, AND, THE MIRROR REPORTED, WERE BEG SUPPORTED BY THEIR CLUBS AND THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATN. THEY DID NOT E OUT. PRENTLY, THERE IS NO PREMIERSHIP PLAYER WHO IS OUT.THE GAY FOOTBALLER, IF GENUE, WOULD BE MAKG SOCCER HISTORY, FOLLOWG THE PATH OF ROBBIE ROGERS, WHO BEME THE SEND SOCCER PLAYER BRA TO E OUT (AFTER JT FASHANU, WHO ME OUT 1990 AND DIED BY SUICI 1998). ROGERS PLAYED FOR L.A. GALAXY UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT 2017. EX-ASTON VILLA MIDFIELR THOMAS HZLSPERGER RETIRED BEFORE HIS 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WAS GAY.EARLIER THIS YEAR, CHELSEA AND ENGLAND PLAYER RUBEN LOFT-CHEEK NIED, VIA TWTER, THAT HE WAS A GAY PREMIERSHIP PLAYER: “ANY PLAYER WHO ME OUT AS GAY, THEY’D HAVE MY FULL SUPPORT AND RPECT. BUT THE MOR ISN’T TE.”AND SO THE MYSTERY NTU, AND QUE NATURALLY THE QUTN OF “WHO” SUPERSES THE LS SEXY, WORDIER QUTN OF WHY HAS TAKEN SO LONG, AND DON’T THE LACK OF OUT PLAYERS 2019 SHOW THAT FOOTBALL—BOTH ANIZATNALLY AND AMONG S FANS—SHOULD GET S HOE ORR, AND NONT AND EXPUNGE THE HOMOPHOBIA THAT HAS PREVENTED A PLAYER OM G OUT UNTIL NOW?THIS STANDS TE, WHETHER THE GAY FOOTBALLER IS FOR REAL OR NOT. THE FACT THAT HAS TAKEN SO LONG FOR A FOOTBALLER TO E OUT TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT THE PREJUDICE THAT STILL EXISTS THE GAME. “WHY SHOULD ONE FOOTBALLER BE EXPECTED TO BE A LONE STANDARD-BEARER? SHOULDN’T FOOTBALL BE ABLE NONT S HOMOPHOBIA WHOUT THE NEED OF A GAY FOOTBALLER TO SHOW THE WAY? IF DID, MIGHT THERE BE MORE OUT-GAY FOOTBALLERS BY NOW?” WHAT KD OF RPONSE WILL THIS FIRST GAY FOOTBALLER GET OM HIS TEAM, BOSS, AND THE FANS ON THE TERRAC? WHY IS THE IMMEDIATE STCT TO WORRY ABOUT THE THGS? WHY SHOULD THAT FOOTBALLER HAVE TO WALK THIS PATH ALONE HIS CHOSEN REER? HE WILL BE UNR THE MOST IMMENSE PRSURE TO BE BOTH A PERFECT PLAYER AND A PERFECT AMBASSADOR. HE WILL, LIKE A LOT OF LGBT PEOPLE PUBLIC LIFE, BE UNR AN TENSE MICROSPE, AND BE EXPECTED TO SAY AND DO THE RIGHT THG. THE PROBLEM WH SO FEW LGBT PEOPLE OUT FOOTBALL (AND OTHER AREAS OF WORKG LIFE) IS THERE THE NAME OF THE MYSTER PERSON’S TWTER ACUNT—THAT PERSON BE THE GAY FOOTBALLER.WHY SHOULD ONE FOOTBALLER BE EXPECTED TO BE A LONE STANDARD-BEARER? SHOULDN’T FOOTBALL BE ABLE NONT S HOMOPHOBIA WHOUT THE NEED OF A GAY FOOTBALLER TO SHOW THE WAY? IF DID, MIGHT THERE BE MORE OUT-GAY FOOTBALLERS BY NOW?THERE ARE SOME POSIVE DITORS AT THE TOP OF THE GAME. AS EXCLIVELY REPORTED BY THE DAILY BEAST, AT LAST YEAR’S WORLD CUP RSIA, THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATN BACKED THE LGBT SUPPORTERS’ NTGENT, THREE LNS PRI, WH S RABOW-THEMED SUPPORTERS’ BANNERS AND SRV. BACK THEN, AN FA SPOKPERSON NFIRMED TO THE DAILY BEAST THE FA’S ENDORSEMENT OF THE BANNERS AND SRV, AS WELL AS THE FA’S SUPPORT OF THE LGBTQ+ SOCCER FANS TRAVELG TO RSIA AND THEIR “IMPORTANT” PRENCE AT THE WORLD CUP SUPPORTG ENGLAND.THE FA SPOKPERSON SAID: “WE HAVE BEEN BUILDG LKS WH LGBT+ FAN GROUPS BY G ENGLAND HOME GAM AS A FOL POT. WE NTUE TO SUPPORT THEIR GOOD WORK, AND BACK THEIR E OF A THREE LNS RABOW CRT AT THE ENGLAND GAM AT THE FIFA 2018 WORLD CUP.”THIS PAST SUNDAY, IF THE ACUNT IS TO BE BELIEVED, THE GAY FOOTBALLER MET WH HIS CLUB AND WAS HEARTENED BY THEIR SUPPORT. THE CLUB UNRSTANDS, THE THOR WROTE, THAT ORR FOR A PLAYER TO PERFORM AS WELL AS THEY N, ’S IMPORTANT THAT THEY ARE “AT PEACE” WH THEMSELV.HE HAS E OUT TO HIS FAY, AND THANKS THEM THIS LATT TWEET FOR THEIR SUPPORT, AND THANKED ALL THOSE WHO HAVE REACHED OUT TO HIM ACROSS MASTREAM AND SOCIAL MEDIA.HE NCES THE MANNER OF HIS “WAYS” TO E OUT, VIA THIS TWTER ACUNT, IS “UNORTHODOX,” BUT IF THIS IS REALLY A GAY PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER, THEN HE IS CLEARLY TERMED TO DO THGS HIS OWN WAY. “MY HOPE IS SIMPLY TO BE ABLE TO PURSUE THE REER AND DREAM I HAVE HAD SCE CHILDHOOD, WHILE SIMULTANEOLY BEG PERMTED TO BE TE TO MYSELF.”— THE GAY FOOTBALLER WHAT IS RTG ON HIS SHOULRS, AND WHAT HE WANTS FOR HIMSELF, SH ANOTHER LIGHT ON THE CURRENT FAILURE OF THE GAME TO ADDRS S STUTNALIZED PREJUDICE.“IT IS NOT A PERSONAL SIRE TO BE PERCEIVED AS A PNEER OF ANY KD,” THE GAY FOOTBALLER WR. “MY HOPE IS SIMPLY TO BE ABLE TO PURSUE THE REER AND DREAM I HAVE HAD SCE CHILDHOOD, WHILE SIMULTANEOLY BEG PERMTED TO BE TE TO MYSELF.”THAT, S SIMPLICY, ULD BE SAID FOR MANY LGBT PEOPLE THEIR PLAC OF WORK. THAT LGBT PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE TO STATE THAT AS A WISH, AS AN AMBN AND ASPIRATN SELF, IS A SHAMEFUL DICTMENT OF WORKPLAC, ANIZATNS, AND SOCIETY SELF. EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO TO WORK, AND NOT FEEL THAT THEY HAVE TO NCEAL WHO THEY ARE.THE FOOTBALLER IS “NFINT,” HE SAYS, HIS CISN TO “PLACE WH THE PUBLIC DOMA THAT I AM GAY AND TEND TO NTUE MY REER AS A PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER.” “HIS PRE-G OUT TWEETS SHOULD SERVE AS AN IMPET FOR FOOTBALL, ANIZATNALLY, TO SIGN A MPAIGN AROUND HIS G OUT TO NOT JT SUPPORT HIM, BUT SUPPORT OF LGBT EQUALY AS A WHOLE, AND AS A STRONG, ORDATED EFFORT TO BAT HOMOPHOBIA.” IF HE IS FOR REAL, THEN HIS TERMATN, AND SENSE OF PRI, IS TO BE NGRATULATED. AND ONE HOP THAT HIS ONLE BUILD-UP TO THE BIG DAY SERV OTHER IMPORTANT TALYTIC PURPOS. IF THIS IS FOR REAL, ONE WOULD HOPE HE DO NOT E OUT ALONE; THAT OTHER GAY PRO-FOOTBALLERS MIGHT JO HIM. HIS PRE-G OUT TWEETS SHOULD ALSO SERVE AS AN IMPET FOR FOOTBALL, ANIZATNALLY, TO SIGN A MPAIGN AROUND HIS G OUT TO NOT JT SUPPORT HIM, BUT SUPPORT OF LGBT EQUALY AS A WHOLE, AND AS A STRONG, ORDATED EFFORT TO BAT HOMOPHOBIA. WHATEVER, IF HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS, THE GAY FOOTBALLER SHOULD NOT BE DOG ANY OF THIS ISOLATN. AND THE TE TT OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL’S RPONSIBILY TO SUPPORT HIM—AND S SUCCS DOG SO—WILL BE THE FIRST GAM HE PLAYS AFTER HIS ANNOUNCEMENT, AND WHAT CHANTS E OM THE TERRAC. ONE WOULD HOPE THAT WHEN THIS B OF LGBT HISTORY IS MA THAT FOOTBALL AND S FANS WILL BE AS FOCED ON DOG THE RIGHT THG AS THE GAY FOOTBALLER IS. TIM TEEMAN

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

Atralian footballer Josh Cavallo has e out as gay, beg one of the few profsnal men's soccer players the world to do so.

The Alai Uned midfielr announced that he was gay a vio posted to the team's Twter acunt Tuday night. "I'm a footballer, and I'm gay, " said an emotnal Cavallo.

Ashamed I would never be able to do what I love and be gay, hidg who I really am to pursue a dream I always wished for as a kid. It's OK to be gay and to play football, " he said.

PROFSNAL ‘GAY FOOTBALLER’ BEHD ANONYMO TWTER ACUNT REVEALS HIS ‘COMG OUT’ DATE

Soccer player for the San Diego Loyal, me out publicly as gay 2018 when he was playg for the Mnota Uned. Andy Brennan beme the first openly gay Atralian footballer when he me out 2019, acrdg to the Guardian. Male profsnal athlet e out as the first openly gay players currently participatg their rpective sports, cludg NHL hockey player Le Prokop and NFL fensive end Carl Nassib.

The anonymo Twter acunt began tweetg on July 5 that he was preparg to e out of the closet as gay. If te, the player would be the first out gay football player England.

I will be revealg my inty soon, but I am a proud gay man, hopg to break the mould.

‘GAY FOOTBALLER’ LET TWTER ACUNT WHOUT REVEALG INTY

The “Gay Footballer” said that he had e out to his manager and chairman a later tweet, and then teased another meetg on July 14 to discs “next steps.

At this meetg I revealed to both gentlemen that I am a homosexual man, I explaed that I had only yterday e out to my fay.

I sought advice om both men regardg the fact that I not only want to, but will, e out publicly as a proud, nfint gay profsnal footballer.

'THE GAY FOOTBALLER' LET TWTER ACUNT

There are currently no openly gay Premier League footballers. S., Coll Mart, a midfielr for Mnota Uned, me out as gay June 2018, makg him the only openly gay profsnal athlete active any of the five major sports leagu: MLS, NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB. A Twter acunt claimg to belong to an anonymo gay footballer has been leted, a day before the er was due to reveal his inty.

In his first tweet, the er @footballergay claimed he was a profsnal footballer “hopg to break the mould” and would “reveal his inty soon.

‘THE GAY FOOTBALLER,’ REAL OR NOT, CHALLENG ENGLISH SOCCER TO CHAMPN LGBT EQUALYWINNING GOALON TWTER “THE GAY FOOTBALLER” CLAIMS TO BE AN ENGLISH PRO-SOCCER PLAYER ABOUT TO E OUT. THAT HE’D BE ONE OF A KD SHOWS HOW URGENTLY CHANGE IS NEED “THE BETIFUL GAME.”TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 18, 2019 8:52AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 18, 2019 4:45AM EDT OPNPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTO GETTYWE ARE HERE AGA. A MALE ENGLISH PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER IS REPORTEDLY ABOUT TO E OUT AS GAY, AND THE TICK-TOCK HAS BEGUN ON THIS HISTORIC EVENT. THERE ARE NO PROFSNAL MALE FOOTBALLERS PRENTLY PLAYG ENGLAND WHO ARE OUT. THE G OUT WOULD CERTALY BE TIMELY, H AFTER THE WORLD CUP SUCCS OF THE U.S. WOMEN’S TEAM AND S MANY OUT-PLAYERS: MEGAN RAPOE, ASHLYN HARRIS, ALI KRIEGER, ADRIANNA FRANCH, TIERNA DAVIDSON, AND ACH JILL ELLIS. THAT IS, IF THE PERSON BEHD “THE GAY FOOTBALLER” TWTER ACUNT IS FOR REAL. THE ACUNT APPARENTLY BELONGS TO THE FOOTBALLER NCERNED, AND BURST TO LIFE ON JULY 5, WH A TWEET ANNOUNCG THAT HE WAS AN EFL (ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE) PLAYER, THAT HE HAD E OUT TO HIS FAY, THAT HE WAS UNR 23, AND WAS “A PROUD GAY MAN, HOPG TO BREAK THE MOULD.” HE WOULD SOON E OUT PUBLICLY, HE ADD. ON JULY 6, THE GAY FOOTBALLER REVEALED THAT HE HAD E OUT TO HIS CLUB’S MANAGER AND CHAIRMAN, AND RECEIVED THEIR SUPPORT, AND THEIR MMENT TO ENSURG THAT HE HAS THE RIGHT SUPPORT OM WH THE CLUB AND OUTSI WHEN HE OUT. HIS PLAYG AND POSN WH THE TEAM WILL NOT BE AFFECTED, HE WAS ASSURED. HIS LATT TWEET ELICED MORE HEADL. POSTED ON JULY 15, SAID THAT THE FOOTBALLER TENDS TO E OUT “AS SOON AS POSSIBLE” AND “I AM LOOKG TO GOG PUBLIC PRR TO THE START OF THE NEW SEASON.” HE HOP THAT OTHER CLOSETED LGBT PRO-SOCCER PLAYERS “N TAKE FORT AND HOPE OM SUCH DISCLOSURE AND N FEEL SUABLY EMPOWERED TO, IF SIRABLE, REACH THE SAME CISN.”HE ADD THAT HE HOP HE WILL ENURAGE OTHER GAY PEOPLE AT EVERY LEVEL OF THE GAME, OR THOSE WHO FELT THEIR SEXUALY PREVENTED THEM OM PLAYG . HIS G OUT, HE SAYS, HE HOP WILL BE A “TALYST FOR CHANGE.”SO WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN? THE NEW SOCCER SEASON STARTS AT THE BEGNG OF AUGT, SO IF THE GAY FOOTBALLER IS FOR REAL, THEN WE N EXPECT THIS MOMENTO G OUT TO HAPPEN WH THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT WE HAVE HOVERED SUCH TANTALIZG TERRORY. IN 2015, TWO STAR PLAYERS WERE MORED TO BE ABOUT TO E OUT. BACK THEN, MANCHTER UNED (AND ENGLAND) PLAYER LE SHAW NIED HE WAS ONE OF THEM.THE BUZZ AROUND THAT SUPPOSED G OUT ECHOED THE CURRENT BUZZ AROUND THE GAY FOOTBALLER. “THE STARS ARE THOUGHT TO BE PLANNG TO GO PUBLIC BEFORE THE START OF NEXT SEASON,” BRA’S MIRROR REPORTED. “WE N ALSO REVEAL THAT ANOTHER WELL-KNOWN PLAYER ME OUT TO IENDS 2011. BUT A HOMOPHOBIC WORD WAS THEN DBED PAT ACROSS HIS R. IT IS UNRSTOOD HE IS NOW RELUCTANT TO E OUT PUBLICLY SE HE IS THE TARGET FOR MORE ABE.”JT AS WH THE GAY FOOTBALLER, THOSE PLAYERS—ONE AN ENGLAND TERNATNAL—WERE UNRSTOOD TO HAVE ALREADY TOLD FAY AND IENDS, AND, THE MIRROR REPORTED, WERE BEG SUPPORTED BY THEIR CLUBS AND THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATN. THEY DID NOT E OUT. PRENTLY, THERE IS NO PREMIERSHIP PLAYER WHO IS OUT.THE GAY FOOTBALLER, IF GENUE, WOULD BE MAKG SOCCER HISTORY, FOLLOWG THE PATH OF ROBBIE ROGERS, WHO BEME THE SEND SOCCER PLAYER BRA TO E OUT (AFTER JT FASHANU, WHO ME OUT 1990 AND DIED BY SUICI 1998). ROGERS PLAYED FOR L.A. GALAXY UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT 2017. EX-ASTON VILLA MIDFIELR THOMAS HZLSPERGER RETIRED BEFORE HIS 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WAS GAY.EARLIER THIS YEAR, CHELSEA AND ENGLAND PLAYER RUBEN LOFT-CHEEK NIED, VIA TWTER, THAT HE WAS A GAY PREMIERSHIP PLAYER: “ANY PLAYER WHO ME OUT AS GAY, THEY’D HAVE MY FULL SUPPORT AND RPECT. BUT THE MOR ISN’T TE.”AND SO THE MYSTERY NTU, AND QUE NATURALLY THE QUTN OF “WHO” SUPERSES THE LS SEXY, WORDIER QUTN OF WHY HAS TAKEN SO LONG, AND DON’T THE LACK OF OUT PLAYERS 2019 SHOW THAT FOOTBALL—BOTH ANIZATNALLY AND AMONG S FANS—SHOULD GET S HOE ORR, AND NONT AND EXPUNGE THE HOMOPHOBIA THAT HAS PREVENTED A PLAYER OM G OUT UNTIL NOW?THIS STANDS TE, WHETHER THE GAY FOOTBALLER IS FOR REAL OR NOT. THE FACT THAT HAS TAKEN SO LONG FOR A FOOTBALLER TO E OUT TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT THE PREJUDICE THAT STILL EXISTS THE GAME. “WHY SHOULD ONE FOOTBALLER BE EXPECTED TO BE A LONE STANDARD-BEARER? SHOULDN’T FOOTBALL BE ABLE NONT S HOMOPHOBIA WHOUT THE NEED OF A GAY FOOTBALLER TO SHOW THE WAY? IF DID, MIGHT THERE BE MORE OUT-GAY FOOTBALLERS BY NOW?” WHAT KD OF RPONSE WILL THIS FIRST GAY FOOTBALLER GET OM HIS TEAM, BOSS, AND THE FANS ON THE TERRAC? WHY IS THE IMMEDIATE STCT TO WORRY ABOUT THE THGS? WHY SHOULD THAT FOOTBALLER HAVE TO WALK THIS PATH ALONE HIS CHOSEN REER? HE WILL BE UNR THE MOST IMMENSE PRSURE TO BE BOTH A PERFECT PLAYER AND A PERFECT AMBASSADOR. HE WILL, LIKE A LOT OF LGBT PEOPLE PUBLIC LIFE, BE UNR AN TENSE MICROSPE, AND BE EXPECTED TO SAY AND DO THE RIGHT THG. THE PROBLEM WH SO FEW LGBT PEOPLE OUT FOOTBALL (AND OTHER AREAS OF WORKG LIFE) IS THERE THE NAME OF THE MYSTER PERSON’S TWTER ACUNT—THAT PERSON BE THE GAY FOOTBALLER.WHY SHOULD ONE FOOTBALLER BE EXPECTED TO BE A LONE STANDARD-BEARER? SHOULDN’T FOOTBALL BE ABLE NONT S HOMOPHOBIA WHOUT THE NEED OF A GAY FOOTBALLER TO SHOW THE WAY? IF DID, MIGHT THERE BE MORE OUT-GAY FOOTBALLERS BY NOW?THERE ARE SOME POSIVE DITORS AT THE TOP OF THE GAME. AS EXCLIVELY REPORTED BY THE DAILY BEAST, AT LAST YEAR’S WORLD CUP RSIA, THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATN BACKED THE LGBT SUPPORTERS’ NTGENT, THREE LNS PRI, WH S RABOW-THEMED SUPPORTERS’ BANNERS AND SRV. BACK THEN, AN FA SPOKPERSON NFIRMED TO THE DAILY BEAST THE FA’S ENDORSEMENT OF THE BANNERS AND SRV, AS WELL AS THE FA’S SUPPORT OF THE LGBTQ+ SOCCER FANS TRAVELG TO RSIA AND THEIR “IMPORTANT” PRENCE AT THE WORLD CUP SUPPORTG ENGLAND.THE FA SPOKPERSON SAID: “WE HAVE BEEN BUILDG LKS WH LGBT+ FAN GROUPS BY G ENGLAND HOME GAM AS A FOL POT. WE NTUE TO SUPPORT THEIR GOOD WORK, AND BACK THEIR E OF A THREE LNS RABOW CRT AT THE ENGLAND GAM AT THE FIFA 2018 WORLD CUP.”THIS PAST SUNDAY, IF THE ACUNT IS TO BE BELIEVED, THE GAY FOOTBALLER MET WH HIS CLUB AND WAS HEARTENED BY THEIR SUPPORT. THE CLUB UNRSTANDS, THE THOR WROTE, THAT ORR FOR A PLAYER TO PERFORM AS WELL AS THEY N, ’S IMPORTANT THAT THEY ARE “AT PEACE” WH THEMSELV.HE HAS E OUT TO HIS FAY, AND THANKS THEM THIS LATT TWEET FOR THEIR SUPPORT, AND THANKED ALL THOSE WHO HAVE REACHED OUT TO HIM ACROSS MASTREAM AND SOCIAL MEDIA.HE NCES THE MANNER OF HIS “WAYS” TO E OUT, VIA THIS TWTER ACUNT, IS “UNORTHODOX,” BUT IF THIS IS REALLY A GAY PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER, THEN HE IS CLEARLY TERMED TO DO THGS HIS OWN WAY. “MY HOPE IS SIMPLY TO BE ABLE TO PURSUE THE REER AND DREAM I HAVE HAD SCE CHILDHOOD, WHILE SIMULTANEOLY BEG PERMTED TO BE TE TO MYSELF.”— THE GAY FOOTBALLER WHAT IS RTG ON HIS SHOULRS, AND WHAT HE WANTS FOR HIMSELF, SH ANOTHER LIGHT ON THE CURRENT FAILURE OF THE GAME TO ADDRS S STUTNALIZED PREJUDICE.“IT IS NOT A PERSONAL SIRE TO BE PERCEIVED AS A PNEER OF ANY KD,” THE GAY FOOTBALLER WR. “MY HOPE IS SIMPLY TO BE ABLE TO PURSUE THE REER AND DREAM I HAVE HAD SCE CHILDHOOD, WHILE SIMULTANEOLY BEG PERMTED TO BE TE TO MYSELF.”THAT, S SIMPLICY, ULD BE SAID FOR MANY LGBT PEOPLE THEIR PLAC OF WORK. THAT LGBT PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE TO STATE THAT AS A WISH, AS AN AMBN AND ASPIRATN SELF, IS A SHAMEFUL DICTMENT OF WORKPLAC, ANIZATNS, AND SOCIETY SELF. EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO TO WORK, AND NOT FEEL THAT THEY HAVE TO NCEAL WHO THEY ARE.THE FOOTBALLER IS “NFINT,” HE SAYS, HIS CISN TO “PLACE WH THE PUBLIC DOMA THAT I AM GAY AND TEND TO NTUE MY REER AS A PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER.” “HIS PRE-G OUT TWEETS SHOULD SERVE AS AN IMPET FOR FOOTBALL, ANIZATNALLY, TO SIGN A MPAIGN AROUND HIS G OUT TO NOT JT SUPPORT HIM, BUT SUPPORT OF LGBT EQUALY AS A WHOLE, AND AS A STRONG, ORDATED EFFORT TO BAT HOMOPHOBIA.” IF HE IS FOR REAL, THEN HIS TERMATN, AND SENSE OF PRI, IS TO BE NGRATULATED. AND ONE HOP THAT HIS ONLE BUILD-UP TO THE BIG DAY SERV OTHER IMPORTANT TALYTIC PURPOS. IF THIS IS FOR REAL, ONE WOULD HOPE HE DO NOT E OUT ALONE; THAT OTHER GAY PRO-FOOTBALLERS MIGHT JO HIM. HIS PRE-G OUT TWEETS SHOULD ALSO SERVE AS AN IMPET FOR FOOTBALL, ANIZATNALLY, TO SIGN A MPAIGN AROUND HIS G OUT TO NOT JT SUPPORT HIM, BUT SUPPORT OF LGBT EQUALY AS A WHOLE, AND AS A STRONG, ORDATED EFFORT TO BAT HOMOPHOBIA. WHATEVER, IF HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS, THE GAY FOOTBALLER SHOULD NOT BE DOG ANY OF THIS ISOLATN. AND THE TE TT OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL’S RPONSIBILY TO SUPPORT HIM—AND S SUCCS DOG SO—WILL BE THE FIRST GAM HE PLAYS AFTER HIS ANNOUNCEMENT, AND WHAT CHANTS E OM THE TERRAC. ONE WOULD HOPE THAT WHEN THIS B OF LGBT HISTORY IS MA THAT FOOTBALL AND S FANS WILL BE AS FOCED ON DOG THE RIGHT THG AS THE GAY FOOTBALLER IS. TIM TEEMAN

Compared wh other areas of society, men’s profsnal soccer is lackg openly gay players. Former Uned Stat natnal team player Robbie Rogers announced he was gay 2013, while Swedish Anton Hysen is currently the only openly out player Europe. Brish footballer Jt Fashanu mted suici 1998, aged 37 – jt eight years after announcg that he was gay.