Coll Mart is U.S. soccer's only openly gay male player, and he's workg to make the game more clive for future LGBTQ+ players - ESPN

Contents:

• FA TO VTIGATE ANTI-GAY CHANTG AT MAN UNED-EVERTON CLASH
• MNOTA UNED'S COLL MART OUT AS GAY
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• MAN UTD IN EVRA CLAIMS THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO GAY PLAYERS AT EVERY CLUB BUT REVEALS SOME HOSTILE DRSG-ROOM VIEWS
• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• GAY RIGHTS
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS
• EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED
• TOWLEROAD GAY NEWS
• MANCHTER UNED LEGEND PATRICE EVRA CLAIMS THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO GAY PLAYERS AT EVERY FOOTBALL CLUB
• HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?
• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• GAY DATG UNED KGDOM
• AT LEAST 20 FOOTBALLERS PREMIER LEAGUE AND CHAMPNSHIP ARE GAY BUT THEY'RE AAID TO E OUT SAYS EX-CLUB BOSS
• HIV/AIDS AND EDUTN: LSONS OM THE 1980S AND THE GAY MALE COMMUNY THE UNED STAT
• U.K. ENDS RTRICTN ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD
• HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• FDA'S REVISED BLOOD DONATN GUIDANCE FOR GAY MEN STILL COURTS CONTROVERSY

FA TO VTIGATE ANTI-GAY CHANTG AT MAN UNED-EVERTON CLASH

In the last of Goal's seri speakg to gay, lbian, bisexual & transgenr fans of Premier League clubs, Rabow Devils reveal their experiencAttemptg to anise and set-up an official Manchter Uned supporters’ club for LGBT+ people was like “turng the Tanic”, the chair of the group has admted.

MNOTA UNED'S COLL MART OUT AS GAY

RtersJan 7, 2023, 09:01 AM ETEngland's Football Associatn (FA) will vtigate alleged anti-gay chantg durg Everton's 3-1 FA Cup third round loss at Manchter Uned on supporters were heard g anti-gay language agast Everton manager Frank Lampard, who prevly played for and managed Chelsea, Brish media reports said. "We stand firmly agast all forms of discrimatn and we are strivg to ensure our game is a safe environment for all, which tly embrac diversy and challeng hateful nduct both on and off the pch, " an FA spokperson a statement to Brish media, Uned said, "homophobia, like all forms of discrimatn, has no place football.

@ManUtd— Rabow Devils (@RabowDevils) January 6, 2023 "The club has a zero-tolerance policy on all forms of discrimatn and wel the statements om The FA and Manchter Uned, " Everton said a statement to chants were also lled out by "Rabow Devils, " a Manchter Uned LGBTQ+ supporters group, who tweeted: "We strongly nmn the tntg of Frank Lampard wh the illegal and homophobic chant om a sectn of our fans and ll for the club to take actn. Skip to Ma NavigatnSkip to ntentUned partner wh Stonewall to promote LGBT+ clnTuday 10 November 2020 10:00Manchter Uned has entered a strategic partnership wh lbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT+) equaly chary Stonewall, as the club strengthens s work to promote diversy and cln unr s banner of ‘All Red All Equal’. ESPNJun 29, 2018, 11:17 AM ETMnota Uned midfielr Coll Mart announced on Friday that he is, 23, is the only openly gay male athlete active a major profsnal Amerin sports league, after the retirement of LA Galaxy wger Robbie Rogers last wrote a statement on Twter that many of his teammat have long known about his sexualy.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

Manchter Uned have announced a new strategic partnership wh Stonewall, Bra's leadg lbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT+) chary, to help promote diversy and equaly throughout the agreement will see Uned sign up to Stonewall's Diversy Champns programme, which helps employers embed LGBT+ cln the workplace and ga accs to expert nsultatn, trag, and dited rourc.

The Natnal Survey of Sexual Health and Behavr and the Atralian Longudal Study of Health and Relatnships both found a majory of rponnts (55% and 59%, rpectively) intifyg as surveys show even greater nsistency differenc between men and women associated wh lbian/gay vers bisexual inty. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

MAN UTD IN EVRA CLAIMS THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO GAY PLAYERS AT EVERY CLUB BUT REVEALS SOME HOSTILE DRSG-ROOM VIEWS

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

GAY RIGHTS

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U.

Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. "Beg able to have a posive msage e out of a really tough suatn was the silver lg, " he the only openly gay men's profsnal soccer player the Uned Stat -- and one of the few who have ever e out globally -- Mart has e to embrace the signifince of what he reprents, pecially for the LGBTQ+ muny. Patrice Evra believ there are at least two gay players at every football club but says his former team-mat were aaid to e out due to homophobic attus the drsg Manchter Uned fenr Evra, who also had spells at Mona, Juvent, Marseille and Wt Ham, has said he enuntered shockg attus towards homosexualy durg his playg an terview wh French newspaper Le Parisien to ci wh the release of his tobgraphy, Evra said: “When I was England, they brought someone to talk to the team about says he enuntered shockg attus towards homosexualy durg his playg reer (Image: Alamy)“Some of my lleagu said ‘ is agast my relign, if there is a homosexual this locker room, let him leave the club’ and other ments.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been a vol supporter of the mpaign and says he is proud to be seen as an “ally” of the LGBTQ+ believ there are at least two gay players at every football club (Image: Alamy)"I really love Rabow Lac, every year when happens, " Klopp told Sky Sports News.

COLL MART IS U.S. SOCCER'S ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER, AND HE'S WORKG TO MAKE THE GAME MORE CLIVE FOR FUTURE LGBTQ+ PLAYERS

"Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is vol supporter of the Rabow Lac mpaign (Image: Alamy)Earlier this month, the world’s only openly gay profsnal footballer, Josh Cavallo, suffered homophobic abe while playg for Atralian si Alai Uned agast Melbourne Victory.

The evince also suggts that a large number of gay men are married to are three sourc that n give timat of the openly gay populatn broken down by state: the cens, which asks about same-sex hoeholds; Gallup, which has fairly large-sample surveys for every state; and Facebook, which asks members what genr they are terted .

As Gallup poted out s ial timate of the entire LGBT populatn 2012, "Exactly who mak up the LGBT muny and how this group should be measured is a subject of some bate, " and "there are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat.

EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

TOWLEROAD GAY NEWS

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v. Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007.

For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal.

Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000. As every gay man knows who has been sulted or asslted for his actual or perceived sexual orientatn, there are steep penalti for vlatg the Boy Co as there are for anyone who is “different” om the prumed (typilly whe, heterosexual, middle-class) standard. Robert Pollack says the most important thg a fay n do to support their gay son is to keep lovg him, “to nvey to him, as soon as he shar his feelgs, that he is still loved through and through, that his sexual orientatn will not any way dimish how much he is admired and rpected.

MANCHTER UNED LEGEND PATRICE EVRA CLAIMS THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO GAY PLAYERS AT EVERY FOOTBALL CLUB

In a 1987 say tled “A Separate People Whose Time Has Come, ” Hay scribed homosexuals as “spir people, ” who, throughout the ag, had served society their rol as “msengers and tercers, shamans of both genrs, prits and prits, imagemakers and prophets, mim and rhapsos, poets and playwrights, healers and nurturers, teachers and preachers, tkers and tkerers, searchers and rearchers.

But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U.

When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi. Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para.

HOW MANY AMERIN MEN ARE GAY?

”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. At least 20 footballers Premier League and Champnship are gay but they're aaid to e out says ex-club bossOpenly gay Leeds Uned director David Haigh says players nfid him - and he believ clubs uld benef mercially if stars e outDavid Haigh durg his time at Leeds UnedAt least 20 football stars are gay and “aaid” to e out, a top club’s ex-director claims.

Fewer than half (46 percent) of gay and bisexual men are aware that people wh HIV should start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as soon as they are diagnosed, and only a quarter (25 percent) know about treatment as preventn, or TasP; that is, that takg nsistent ARV treatment signifintly rc the risk of passg HIV on to one’s sexual partners. Sce early victims were predomantly gay men, the stigma attached to homosexualy the medil, erng, law enforcement and eccliastil stutns beme a barrier to unrstandg, preventn, and out of doctoral study the mid-1980s, I was part of the first generatn of mental health provirs to rpond to the epimic the San Francis Bay Area Northern California.

Her Highns Sheikha Mozah exhorted the atten om around the world to not stop at talk but, stead, m themselv to actn agast both the sndalo lack of accs to dimentary tn for over one hundred ln school-age children worldwi, as well as the tolerable equi of genr, class, and enomic stature which impair the attament of basic years ago, the gay muny was effective tg var social and profsnal muni bee, beg highly ted, privileged, and entled, was unaaid to speak the tth and go head-to-head wh powerful sectors that were perceived as obstctg accs to rmatn, rearch, treatment, and fundg. One, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer (LGBTQ) Prints Higher Edutn is newly formed and "advanc effective learship the realm of post-sendary tn, supports profsnal velopment of LGBTQ lears that sector, and provis tn and advocy regardg LGBTQ issu wh the global amy and for the public at large.

AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

Prevly, gay and bisexual men England, Stland and Wal were not permted to donate wh three months of havg been sexually active, due to fears around the transmissn of HIV/AIDS and other fectns, spe studi showg no creased risk, as all donor sampl are tted Northern Ireland Blood Transfn Service has layed implementg the new creria until September, sayg needs more time to prepare for the December, followg a two-year-long study led by Brish blood servic and LGBTQ groups, the NHS announced would be revisg s creria effective this summer.

Policy remas discrimatory as is based on “membership a group … rather than engagement risky behavr, such as unprotected sex, ” read a statement on the anizatn’s sexually active gay men are barred, said, a straight man or woman “who has had unprotected sex wh multiple partners over the same time ame wh no knowledge of their personal histori remas the donor pool. While 2020 data on HIV diagnos and preventn and re out are available, we are not updatg this web ntent wh data om the Amerina gay, bisexual, and other men who reported male-to-male sexual ntactb, c are more affected by HIV than any other groups the Uned Stat (US) and pennt areas.

The revised policy match that the Uned Kgdom, which 2017 implemented a 3-month ferral policy for gay or bisexual men who want to donate blood technician, now a fns entreprenr and owner of, Alistaire Nzek, 34, of Hightstown, New Jersey, poted out, “The whole reason is bee they thk men who sleep wh men are at a higher risk of gettg HIV, " he said.

GAY MARRIAGE

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE A GAY MAN?

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

GAY DATG UNED KGDOM

AT LEAST 20 FOOTBALLERS PREMIER LEAGUE AND CHAMPNSHIP ARE GAY BUT THEY'RE AAID TO E OUT SAYS EX-CLUB BOSS

HIV/AIDS AND EDUTN: LSONS OM THE 1980S AND THE GAY MALE COMMUNY THE UNED STAT

U.K. ENDS RTRICTN ON GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN DONATG BLOOD

HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

FDA'S REVISED BLOOD DONATN GUIDANCE FOR GAY MEN STILL COURTS CONTROVERSY