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• GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER 'VERY LIKELY' TO E OUT NEXT YEAR, SAYS JT FASHANU'S NIECE
• GARY LEKER SAYS HE KNOWS TWO GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS AND HOP THEY E OUT DURG QATAR WORLD CUPTHE FORMER ENGLAND STRIKER SAID THAT HE KNOW TWO GAY PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN “VERY CLOSE” TO REVEALG THEIR SEXUALYBUZZBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYRUAIRI STT BYRNEDEPUTY EDOR17:51, 14 OCT 2022UPDATED15:31, 2 NOV 2022BOOKMARKGARY LEKER ATTENDS AN EVENG WH GARY LEKER, NVERSATN WH TIM MARLOW OBE, AT THE DIGN MM PARTNERSHIP WH THE WICK ON MAY 24, 2022 LONDON, ENGLAND (IMAGE: DAVID M. BET/DAVE BET/GETTY IMAG FOR THE DIGN MM)SIGN UP TO OUR EE EMAIL ALERTS FOR THE BT PROMOTNS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR E-MAILMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP TO OUR EE EMAIL ALERTS FOR THE BT PROMOTNS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR E-MAILINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• THE FEAR OF A GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER: I WILL BE CCIFIED
• GARY LEKER SAYG HE KNOWS CLOSETED GAY FOOTBALLERS WON’T HELP PLAYERS WHO WANT TO E OUT
• GRAEME SOUNS EXPLAS WHY THERE ARE NO OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLERS THE PREMIER LEAGUE AND REVEALS TNAL VIS TO BRIGHTON PRI PARA
• GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER
• GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER 'UNRGOG THERAPY' OVER FEARS OF FAN ABE
• UNNAMED PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER REVEALS HE IS GAY LETTER BUT SAYS HE N'T GO PUBLIC
• GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER IS THERAPY AS HE FEARS ABE OM FANS IF HE CHOOS TO E OUT
• GAY PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALLER(S)
• PREMIER LEAGUE TEAMMAT ARE ‘OPEN’ ABOUT BEG A GAY RELATNSHIP
• GAY FOOTBALLER EXPLAS WHY PREMIER LEAGUE STARS AREN’T G OUT - EXCLUSIVE

GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER 'VERY LIKELY' TO E OUT NEXT YEAR, SAYS JT FASHANU'S NIECE

I don’t have to broadst to people I’m heterosexual so why should someone who is gay announce their sexualy? Contrast; my brother works the theatre, and is a wee b mp, so he fds himself g to people, bee everyone assum he’s gay. A iend of me was sort of quietly gay, when I first knew her.

Stonewall CEO: ‘I know of gay footballers the Premier League but we are b of a way off before a player is able to e out ’.

Are there Gay Premier League Footballers? Beg a gay teen, I have loved football my whole life. It still shocks me that over the past 30 years or so, there are no active publicly gay footballers playg the Premier League / Top profsnal Leagu.

GARY LEKER SAYS HE KNOWS TWO GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS AND HOP THEY E OUT DURG QATAR WORLD CUPTHE FORMER ENGLAND STRIKER SAID THAT HE KNOW TWO GAY PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN “VERY CLOSE” TO REVEALG THEIR SEXUALYBUZZBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSSPORTBYRUAIRI STT BYRNEDEPUTY EDOR17:51, 14 OCT 2022UPDATED15:31, 2 NOV 2022BOOKMARKGARY LEKER ATTENDS AN EVENG WH GARY LEKER, NVERSATN WH TIM MARLOW OBE, AT THE DIGN MM PARTNERSHIP WH THE WICK ON MAY 24, 2022 LONDON, ENGLAND (IMAGE: DAVID M. BET/DAVE BET/GETTY IMAG FOR THE DIGN MM)SIGN UP TO OUR EE EMAIL ALERTS FOR THE BT PROMOTNS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR E-MAILMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP TO OUR EE EMAIL ALERTS FOR THE BT PROMOTNS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR E-MAILINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Wh all the homophobic ments social media whenever clubs change their logos to a rabow pattern or when the Rabow Lac mpaign receivg homophobic ments, my heart breaks to see how homophobic the football world n be. I feel like growg up, havg publicly gay footballers makg the top leagu would be a great role mol for LGBTQ+ football lovers, I hope some n e out soon (of urse, whenever they feel fortable to).

THE FEAR OF A GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER: I WILL BE CCIFIED

Gary Leker says he hop a Premier League player will e out as gay durg the Qatar World Cup to send a strong msage to a host natn where homosexualy remas a crime. The Former England striker told the Daily Mirror he knows two gay Premier League players who have been “very close” to g out. ” Last year, Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo me out as gay and said that he knows there are other players “livg silence”, while May, 17-year-old Blackpool player Jake Daniels beme the UK’s first profsnal male football player to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990.

GARY LEKER SAYG HE KNOWS CLOSETED GAY FOOTBALLERS WON’T HELP PLAYERS WHO WANT TO E OUT

Background Former Norwich Cy and Nottgham Fort player Jt Fashanu beme the first openly gay male Brish footballer when he me out an terview wh The Sun 1990. In 2018, then-Mnota Uned FC player Coll Mart announced he is gay, beg at the time the world’s only current openly gay, active male profsnal footballer. Former German ternatnal Thomas Hzlsperger is the only openly gay player to have ever featured the Premier League.

Hzlsperger, who enjoyed stts wh Wt Ham Uned and Aston Villa, revealed he is gay January 2014, a few months after retirg bee of jury problems. ESThere is still a taboo around beg a gay footballer, and a Premier League player has stated that they would not openly e out for fear of the reactn om fans. " Durg the terview, the player explaed that he had to seek psychologil help wh the prsure surroundg him and whether fellow players know that he is gay.

GRAEME SOUNS EXPLAS WHY THERE ARE NO OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLERS THE PREMIER LEAGUE AND REVEALS TNAL VIS TO BRIGHTON PRI PARA

Gary Leker’s ments about knowg gay premier league footballers uld make harr for players to e out publicly, activists have warned.

The former footballer and BBC prenter told The Mirror he knows of two profsnal footballers who are “very close” to g out – and suggted they should do so durg the World Cup to take a stand agast Qatar’s anti-gay laws.

However, LGBTQ+ sportg advot have said Leker’s ments – and wir speculatn about gay footballers – is heapg prsure on players who might already be stgglg. Jon Holm, founr of Sports Media LGBT+, told PkNews that Leker likely means well, but his ments won’t help gay footballers e out.

GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER

“We know that for many years the tabloid newspapers particular have reported on the topic of gay and bisexual male footballers a way that is largely unhelpful and don’t actually lead to that creased visibily this part of sport, ” Holm says.

GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER 'UNRGOG THERAPY' OVER FEARS OF FAN ABE

Instead, speculatn about gay footballers “v extra prsure”, acrdg to Holm.

UNNAMED PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER REVEALS HE IS GAY LETTER BUT SAYS HE N'T GO PUBLIC

Much has been ma recent years about the lack of openly gay footballers at the hight echelons of the sport. Amal Fashanu, the niece of Jt Fashanu, has said she knows of a number of gay players who are nsirg g out.

However, others have cricised the media enzy for gay footballers to e out, sayg the speculatn uld ter them om openg up about their sexualy. HONEST Graeme Souns explas why there are no openly gay footballers the Premier League and reveals tnal vis to Brighton Pri paraPublished: 9:44, 9 Dec 2019Graeme Souns believ football has created an ‘unfortable environment’ for gay players. Former Wt Ham and Aston Villa midfielr Thomas Hzlsperger beme the first openly gay Premier League player - but he only me out 2014, a year after retirg om the game.

GAY PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER IS THERAPY AS HE FEARS ABE OM FANS IF HE CHOOS TO E OUT

"There mt be gay and bisexual players the Premier League but nobody has felt nfint enough to say 'this is me'.

The European Cup-wng midfielr ma his name playg the 70s and 80s, s durg which racism and homophobia were rife. "I e om a generatn where was extremely homophobic, the banter our drsg room.

Evra: "There are at least two gay footballers per team, but if you say you'll them forever". Premier League star says ‘I’m gay but I’m aaid to e out’ anguished open letter. As the article quot Troy Deeney sayg by the law of averag you would expect most clubs to have a gay player.

GAY PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALLER(S)

I have 2 gay people among my male, one female..... There may never be a more suable time for attus to gay associat all walks of life to change for the better forever.

I've worked wh, drank wh and shared flats/ho wh gay iends over the years and people are generally a lot more acceptg than they were 30 years ago, but we're not there yet. I have 2 gay people among my male, one female... Rugby unn has managed to accept gay players and refere wh barely a whimper.

PREMIER LEAGUE TEAMMAT ARE ‘OPEN’ ABOUT BEG A GAY RELATNSHIP

There's a handful of out gay players eher sport.

Aren't there openly gay people jt about every high profile profsn all around the world?

GAY FOOTBALLER EXPLAS WHY PREMIER LEAGUE STARS AREN’T G OUT - EXCLUSIVE

Both of them have grown up untri where 's not ok to be gay.