Steve Strimlg says beg gay has never stopped him om advancg as a football official. Now a whe hat referee the Pac-12, he wants to e out publicly to help others.
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- OPENLY GAY PRO-FOOTBALL REFEREE AMANDA SER-COOK WILL BE PART OF DIVERSE XFL OFFICIATG CREW
- GAY FOOTBALL REFEREE THKS ’40 PER CENT’ OF PLAYERS AND OFFICIALS ULD BE LGBTQ+
- FOOTBALL REFERE OUT AS GAY TO SHOW THAT THE BETIFUL GAME IS FOR EVERYONE
- RABOW LAC: REF RYAN ATK ON BEG GAY FOOTBALL
- GAY PAC-12 REFEREE HAS BEEN WH HIS PARTNER FOR 29 YEARS. NOW HE'S G OUT TO HELP OTHERS.
- HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
- EFL REFEREE JAM ADCK: ‘I’M AN OPENLY GAY MAN FOOTBALL’
OPENLY GAY PRO-FOOTBALL REFEREE AMANDA SER-COOK WILL BE PART OF DIVERSE XFL OFFICIATG CREW
XFL center judge Amanda Ser-Cook is the first openly gay official a major natnal profsnal football league. * gay football referee *
Football referee Jam Adck speaks to the BBC's LGBT Sport Podst"I'm very appreciative of the fact that I'm an openly gay man football.
"Adck has worked as a fourth official the Premier League'People know I'm gay and jt accept - I'm fortunate for that'As a child of the '80s and '90s, Adck was ed to hearg the same tired stereotyp - that people who loved sport uldn't be gay as, who is om Long Eaton Derbyshire, didn't e out until he was 27 - but his experienc wh the game have been nothg but posive.
GAY FOOTBALL REFEREE THKS ’40 PER CENT’ OF PLAYERS AND OFFICIALS ULD BE LGBTQ+
Ser-Cook beme the first openly gay referee profsnal football history when she worked for the Alliance of Amerin Football last year. * gay football referee *
And, to be hont, there's been tert om lleagu sayg, 'I'm proud of you Jam, that you're able to be openly gay sport, ' bee they know the barriers that are still place. "They're fully supportive and don't change the way they are around me or the way they speak to me bee they thought I was a heterosexual guy, and now they fd out I'm a gay guy. "I don't need to wear a T-shirt sayg: 'I'm Jam Adck and I'm a gay guy.
"I've not had any homophobic abe thrown at me, and I n't tell you a story where I've had to bat or overe that. "To e out as gay or not e out as gay, you have to choose that as a person and not as a ref.
FOOTBALL REFERE OUT AS GAY TO SHOW THAT THE BETIFUL GAME IS FOR EVERYONE
FIFA's first openly gay football referee Igor Benevenuto believ that up to 40 per cent of people volved football are LGBTQ+. * gay football referee *
I'm not refereeg bee I'm gay, I'm refereeg bee I'm refereeg a game of football - so jt treat me as a normal human beg.
"That's where my fay, my iends, and my football lleagu have been so supportive - bee don't matter that I am gay and volved sport, and refereeg the Football League. Steve Strimlg is breakg more ground as an out gay football referee, this time leadg the entire group of officials for the upstart USFL.
“The articl I read about other gay people sports each say how much they helped others, ” he told me at the time. But Ser-Cook is breakg new ground as the first openly gay official to work a major natnal profsnal football league, last year the short-lived Alliance of Amerin Football and this year the XFL. The head of officials for the Atlanta chapter of the Natnal Gay Flag Football League was there, heard me, and suggted I e help out on the weekends.
RABOW LAC: REF RYAN ATK ON BEG GAY FOOTBALL
Ser married her wife last year. Now the out gay official is a center judge the AAF. * gay football referee *
“Sce I me out at 20, [beg gay] on the field has never been an issue, and has never been a terrent, ” he said.
[avatar er=”lewisj163″ size=”thumbnail” align=”left” /]Football Zebras wrer Josh Lewis has officiated adult flag-football leagu, cludg the Natnal Flag Football League of Atlanta, the Chigo Metropolan Sports Associatn, the New York Gay Football League, and the Natnal Gay Flag Football League.
The league will employ seven female officials, cludg Amanda Ser-Cook, who ma history last year as the first openly gay referee to work a major profsnal football league, when she served as a center judge for the short-lived Alliance of Amerin Football. Openly gay Pac-12 official Steve Strimlg is the ordator of officials, mirrorg the role he held the AAF. FIFA’s first openly gay football referee believ that up to 40 per cent of people volved football are LGBTQ+.
GAY PAC-12 REFEREE HAS BEEN WH HIS PARTNER FOR 29 YEARS. NOW HE'S G OUT TO HELP OTHERS.
Sttish football otball refere Craig Napier and Lloyd Wilson have both e out as gay an effort to make the game more LGBTQ clive. * gay football referee *
Brazil’s Igor Benevenuto recently ma history by beg the first FIFA-ranked referee to e out as gay, after more than two s of hidg his tth,. Gays are ed to not beg themselv.
“There are many gay people soccer. “Thirty to forty per cent of them are homosexual or bisexual, or have done somethg at one time wh another man.
HOW ONE OF BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SOCCER REFERE CHANGED THE GAME
Referee Ryan Atk wr about his experienc as a gay man workg football ahead of this weekend's Rabow Lac mpaign. * gay football referee *
“You would be surprised at jt who is homosexual this dtry. He said: “In Brazil homosexualy is seen as an illns siar to alholism, which n be overe.
EFL REFEREE JAM ADCK: ‘I’M AN OPENLY GAY MAN FOOTBALL’
While there are many out, LGBTQ+ players the women’s game, out gay footballers are rare the men’s game.
In May, Jake Daniels beme the first active top-flight male pro to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990. Amanda Ser has broken ground as a football official on a number of levels, and she’s the first publicly out gay referee profsnal football.