Was Aaron Hernanz Gay? Documentary Explor Football Player's Rumored Sexual Past

Contents:

• DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI
• THE SAD END OF JT FASHANU; FIRST KNOWN BLACK GAY FOOTBALLER WHO MAND A £1M TRANSFER FEE
•  AARON HERNANZ LAWYER SLAMS NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SUGGTG SEXUALY SUICI WAS CTE GAY
• WAS AARON HERNANZ GAY? DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR FOOTBALL PLAYER'S RUMORED SEXUAL PAST
• SUICI OF GAY FOOTBALLER
• BRA'S FIRST OUT GAY FOOTBALLER JT FASHANU WHO KILLED HIMSELF AT 37 TURNED TO ITV DRAMA
• THIS BLACK, GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER IS TURNG HIS HEARTBREAK TO ACTN
• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF FOOTBALL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI

The story of Jt Fashanu – the world’s first £1m black footballer and Bra’s first openly gay footballer, who killed himself aged 37 1998 – mak a movg, challengg, troublg bpic. Durg that time, he veloped a taste for big spendg and fast livg, also makg regular appearanc Nottgham’s gay bars. “One of the most famo players, playg for Nottgham Fort, jt said to me: ‘Hey, your brother’s gay.

Photograph: Bob Thomas/Getty ImagSo to “empower” his brother, John wrote a cheque and had his agent take Jt to a hotel, only to disver that “my agent was a gay sympathiser”. But he had already left for last time the brothers spoke, Jt feared for his liberty, but John, spe now acceptg homosexualy as “a normal thg”, was “too annoyed to unrstand what he was really sayg” and did not believe that Jt served his unndnal loyalty.

Fashanu, a former Dr Barnardo's boy who was fostered at the age of five wh his olr brother John, went on to bee the first £1 ln black footballer Bra when he was signed by Nottgham Fort 1981 aged a famoly difficult relatnship wh the club's then manager, Brian Clough, and Fashanu's renowned temper soon found him out of favour wh the club and he slipped quickly and spectacular fashn om the First Divisn of English football to the backwaters of the Third his own words, Fashanu's failure to achieve the succs his talent served was due, part, to his admissn that he was gay. I was very upset when Jt turned gay. "He had already admted he was gay.

THE SAD END OF JT FASHANU; FIRST KNOWN BLACK GAY FOOTBALLER WHO MAND A £1M TRANSFER FEE

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 AARON HERNANZ LAWYER SLAMS NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SUGGTG SEXUALY SUICI WAS CTE GAY

to his suici note, fearg he would not get a fair trial bee of his homosexualy,.

Fashanu’s nfince and goals were soon short supply when Coach Brian Clough charge of Nottgham Fort disvered he was gay and was equentg gay nightclubs and bars. Although Fashanu stated his fellow players accepted him generally well followg his October 1990 public announcement as gay the Sun Newspaper beg the only proment player English football to do so, he was nohels aware of malic jok ma about his sexual orientatn while beg a target of nstant crowd abe bee of .

Homosexual acts were illegal the US state of Maryland at the time, and the youth stated the act was not nsensual but beg performed as he awoke. after visg Charts Roman Spa, a lol gay sna.

WAS AARON HERNANZ GAY? DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR FOOTBALL PLAYER'S RUMORED SEXUAL PAST

Fashanu was listed at number 99 the Top 500 Lbian and Gay Hero The Pk Paper.

SUICI OF GAY FOOTBALLER

Aaron Hernanz's attorney Jose Baez has slammed Netflix's new documentary on the late NFL player, statg that the football tight end killed himself bee he was sufferg om Chronic Trmatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and not over fears of beg outed as a homosexual as suggted by the streamg giant's latt offerg.

Baez, who reprented Hernanz and helped him beat a double murr se, a statement to TMZ said that the recently-released Netflix documentary tled 'Killer Insi: The Md of Aaron Hernanz' impli that the player was a closeted homosexual, and might have taken his life fear of the alleged secret gettg out. Baez refuted Netflix's theory of Hernanz's possible homosexualy playg a part his suici, and said that the young player's ath was triggered by advanced CTE.

BRA'S FIRST OUT GAY FOOTBALLER JT FASHANU WHO KILLED HIMSELF AT 37 TURNED TO ITV DRAMA

The Netflix documentary, which dropped on January 15, emphasiz Hernanz's possible homosexualy and how the player was tormented about keepg unr wraps a machismo-driven reer.

THIS BLACK, GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER IS TURNG HIS HEARTBREAK TO ACTN

“Aaron Hernanz Unvered” documentary tails late football player’s stggle wh homosexualy. Acrdg to a new documentary, former New England Patrts player Aaron Hernanz, who was servg a life sentence for murr when he mted suici prison 2017, was hidg a two-part Aaron Hernanz Unvered, which aired on the Oxygen work on Saturday and Sunday, prented a number of people close to the former NFL star who revealed Hernanz was a gay man. "Gee Leontire, an openly gay member of Hernanz's legal team, also relled a number of private nversatns he had wh Hernanz, durg which time they talked extensively about the former NFL star's sexualy.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF FOOTBALL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

"This man was clearly gay, " Leontire said. "Leontire add that he believed Hernanz's upbrgg also ntributed to his abily to accept beg a gay man.