Ser married her wife last year. Now the out gay official is a center judge the AAF.
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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. 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. 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.
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 *
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.
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 *
“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.
RABOW LAC: REF RYAN ATK ON BEG GAY FOOTBALL
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FIFA’s first openly gay football referee believ that up to 40 per cent of people volved football are LGBTQ+.
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.
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 *
“Thirty to forty per cent of them are homosexual or bisexual, or have done somethg at one time wh another man. “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. 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. For Ser’s story, which was also wrten by out gay football official Joshua Lewis, head over to Football Zebras.
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 *
Football refere Craig Napier and Lloyd Wilson have both e out as gay an effort to make the Sttish scene more LGBTQ-clive.
Weeks after Jake Daniels beme the first English male profsnal footballer to e out as gay three s, the two Sttish refere have ed Pri Month to e out and send a msage to other football figur. On the same day, lower league referee Lloyd Wilson also me out as gay nversatn wh mental health chary Back Onsi.
Acrdg to The Guardian, the refere are the first out gay participants men’s Sttish football sce Jt Fashanu, the English player who, after g out 1990, went on to play for Airdrie and then Hearts 1993 and 1994. Fashanu was the first profsnal football player to have e out publicly anywhere the UK, but his reer was tragilly cut short by homophobia after he took his own life 1998.
EFL REFEREE JAM ADCK: ‘I’M AN OPENLY GAY MAN FOOTBALL’
Football referee Ryan Atk is the sport's first openly gay profsnal official the wr about his experience and his support for this weekend's Stonewall's Rabow Lac mpaign, which is raisg awarens across sport of anti-LGBT language and behavur that mak gay, bi and trans people feel unwele and unsafe. Ryan Atk is an openly gay football referee supportg Rabow Lac mpaign. I'll wear rabow lac this weekend bee beg the first openly gay referee operatg profsnal football, I believe 's important to visibly support LGBT cln, and tackle homophobia wh men's football particularly, 's still nsired taboo by many to discs homosexualy, while those volved the sport often don't feel fortable speakg up and challengg would be a simple gture for big football nam - the opn changers - to state "homophobia is not part of the game, nor is acceptable".
Atk says he has worked at many gam where homophobic language was ed.
I'd like players to challenge homophobic abe on social media, and te themselv on language that n be discrimatory or offensive. We ntue to see high-profile people let themselv down wh tweets where they have ed appropriate language and the past, I've officiated gam where homophobic language has been ed. "Get up you f****t", "you're so gay", "f**k off you benr" - all phras I've heard ed by players or spectators.