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• CORONATN STREET: 'FOOTBALL IS READY TO HAVE A GAY PLAYER'
• CORONATN STREET SPOILERS: JAM BAILEY PUBLICLY OUT AS GAY AFTER PHOTOS OF DATE POSTED ONLE
• DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG
• CORONATN STREET SPOILERS: JAM KISS DANNY AFTER HE OUT AS GAY
• CORONATN STREET'S GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE CHANGG NVERSATN ON HOMOPHOBIA
• CORONATN STREET STAR ROB MALLARD REVEALS HE’S GAY AS CHARACTER DANIEL OSBOURNE ROMPS ON THE FACTORY FLOOR WH SEAD TKER
• CORONATN STREET'S FIVE GAY CHARACTERS 'NOT A HUGE AMOUNT', SAYS CHARLIE CONDOU
• CORRIE SET FOR FIRST EVER GAY WEDDG AS PL AND TODD FIGHT FOR BILLY'S AFFECTN
• CORONATN STREET ACTOR ANTONY COTTON RECEIVED YEARS ABE OM GAY MUNY FOR 'MP' CHARACTER SEAN TULLY
• DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

CORONATN STREET: 'FOOTBALL IS READY TO HAVE A GAY PLAYER'

Todd Grimshaw was a nfed teen when he filmed Coronatn Street’s first ever gay kiss. Todd beme the show’s first regular gay character and his g out storyle was creded wh brgg the show to the 21st century.

Had they got married however, would have end disaster bee Ted was gay.

Marc was gay then straight then gay aga (Cred: YouTube/ITV). Marc then started a relatnship wh Maria Connor, but Todd Grimshaw was termed to prove Marc was still gay and sced him.

CORONATN STREET SPOILERS: JAM BAILEY PUBLICLY OUT AS GAY AFTER PHOTOS OF DATE POSTED ONLE

Pl is gay man, whereas Peter is straight. Recently the actor has to fend his right to the role on Twter after Its A S creator Rsell T Davis was outspoken about how only gay actors should play gay people as “’s about thenticy”. Coronatn Street is gearg up for s first gay marriage storyle, wh weddg bells store for Weatherfield uple Pl Foreman and Billy week, viewers are set to see the two s down for a ser nversatn, where the two discs their future as Pl's Motor Nrone Disease (MND) ntu to uple's chat about after Pl's nversatn wh fellow MND patient Shelly at the support group, who enurag Pl to take ntrol and do somethg he has always wanted to believ Pl is gog to propose to him and pulls out all the stops, but turns out Pl has somethg big to ask of Billy before he asks him to bee his hband.

"It's not the first time a gay weddg day on the bbl has occurred, but 's hopefully the first that succsfully go ahead. ITVRelated: Coronatn Street's Pla Wilx wds up fans over Elae and Stephen storyActor Daniel Brocklebank adms he feels "slightly honoured" to help brg the first Corrie gay weddg to screens. "I mean, obvly there's been long nng gay characters the show, prr to Billy wh Todd and Sean and also Sophie.

Coronatn Street's Jam Bailey is set to publicly out as gay scen to air next week.

DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG

However, Jam steals himself to tell the tth and announce's he's gay. " Jam Bailey actually revealed to his then new iend Bethany Platt that he was gay back 2019 after she ma a move to kiss him.

Jam begs begged her to unrstand that he uldn't e out publicly bee would be impossible to be an openly gay, black footballer for Weatherfield County due to some fans' prejudice. The sportsman, who 2015 beme the first openly gay gby league player Bra, tailed his journey of g out the public eye and shared his experienc of workg wh the FA to bat discrimatn of the LGBT+ muny. Image source, ITVCoronatn Street has been praised for s "really powerful" storyle about gay footballer Jam plot se Jam balance beg gay wh sportg ambns after g out to his all to a head this week, when mours about Jam's sexualy spread on social media, forcg his club to nont him about how he'll chary Stonewall tells Rad 1 Newsbeat hop the storyle will help "movg natnal nversatns on" about beg a gay man actor Nathan Graham, who plays Jam, says he hop the story might enurage young viewers who are LGBT and volved football to e out.

CORONATN STREET SPOILERS: JAM KISS DANNY AFTER HE OUT AS GAY

"Image source, ITVImage ptn, Jam is approached by a journalist who threatens to out him, after personal rmatn is shared onleNathan's not part of the LGBT muny, but says he's "honoured and grateful" to have the chance to share this story wh Coronatn Street's Jam's storyle has unfold, viewers have seen him clash wh his dad Ed about his views on homosexualy and get to a relatnship wh another Corrie character, storyle certaly hasn't changed anythg yet - there are currently no profsnal footballers the UK who are openly has been praised by LGBT people who work sport like Craig Bratt, who's 22 and works the media team for Exeter source, Craig BrattImage ptn, A Crawley Town fan who sent abe to Craig onle was banned om the club for what he said"I thk 'll have a massive impact bee is a real issue that's affectg society, " Craig tells Newsbeat. "If there was that sort of character back then - pecially someone who was to sport and played football - would have ma thgs so much easier for me as a 15 or 16-year-old g out to my grew up a Crawley Town fan, and experienced homophobia directed at players while he was on the heard fans llg footballers "pansy", "fairy" and other more offensive words.

'This hasn't happened for 30 years'Bee there are no out gay players UK football, to prepare for the storyle on Corrie, Nathan met wh gby league player Keegan Hirst (who me out as gay 2015) to fd out about his experienc profsnal sport. "If wasn't an issue, then I'd like to thk there would be some openly gay footballers out there the world right now.

"Nathan's talkg about Jt Fashanu, who was the first male English profsnal football player to e out as gay while still playg, back 1990. "'No player wants to e out first'Craig says he believ "football is ready" for a player to e out as gay, but says he don't thk that'll happen anytime soon. "No-one will really re and media will thk 'we don't need to n the gay football story anymore, bee we've already been there'.

CORONATN STREET'S GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE CHANGG NVERSATN ON HOMOPHOBIA

"A lot of people fd hard to image that any top tier footballers - who are male - uld potentially be gay or bi, " says Robbie De Santos, Stonewall's director of sport. Stereotyp about what gay and bi men are like and what they uld be good at. "Football is seen as somethg that isn't really for gay or bi men.

Coronatn Street spoilers: Jam Bailey publicly out as gay after photos of date posted onleSPOILERS: Coronatn Street favoure Jam Bailey out as gay at a prs nference for his football reer after qutns arise due to photos of him meetg ex DannyCoronatn Street spoilers: Jam Bailey publicly out as gay after photos of date posted onleCoronatn Street's Jam Bailey will publicly e out as gay after photos of him on a date are put onle by homophobic fans. While the meetg did not end well for the former uple, a group of homophobic fans take snaps of the pair and go on to share them onle.

It is at this moment that Jam cis to be publicly hont about his sexualy and nfirms that he is ed gay. The actor said: "It is important bee is clearly an issue as there is no one currently playg profsnal football who is openly gay. "After talkg to Keegan Hirst, I n see that football, homophobia is not seen as beg on the same level as racism so is good to spark that nversatn and then hopefully will te people that discrimatn is discrimatn no matter what is; race, relign, sexualy.

CORONATN STREET STAR ROB MALLARD REVEALS HE’S GAY AS CHARACTER DANIEL OSBOURNE ROMPS ON THE FACTORY FLOOR WH SEAD TKER

Jam steels himself and publicly out as gay at the prs nference. He ntued: "If a sportsperson is gay, don’t take away om their abily and wh any type of discrimatn until people are ted then nothg will change.

CORONATN STREET'S FIVE GAY CHARACTERS 'NOT A HUGE AMOUNT', SAYS CHARLIE CONDOU

Jam received support when he me out as gay to his mum and brother last year, but after tellg his dad Ed Febary, the reactn was far om posive. A social media slip-up then saw mours beg to circulate around the County fanbase, leadg to Jam flectg awkward qutns om the club's manager and prs the soap havg been stretched longer across the schl due to the panmic, Jam' difficulti have been prolonged - and last Friday, a nontatn on the bbl wh a supporter who was makg homophobic tnts threatened to turn vlent.

CORRIE SET FOR FIRST EVER GAY WEDDG AS PL AND TODD FIGHT FOR BILLY'S AFFECTN

Jam was terpted while talkg to Tim Metlfe and reacted aggrsively when the fan ed homophobic abe. "Graham is speakg to Sky Sports to mark the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, an annual awarens day that has been observed for over 15 years.

In the absence of a visible gay or bi role mol men's profsnal football the UK, the story will be havg a particularly signifint impact on anyone who se themselv reflected Jam.

"If starts to create nversatns wh different muni or areas of the football world, and if young kids are watchg who play football and who might be gay themselv, shows 's important to she a light on this subject.

CORONATN STREET ACTOR ANTONY COTTON RECEIVED YEARS ABE OM GAY MUNY FOR 'MP' CHARACTER SEAN TULLY

'Rpect for gay player would help'. He's now the Diversy and Incln Officer at the Football Associatn and has been playg as a forward for Stonewall FC - the UK's first gay football club, currently playg at Step 7 of the non-League pyramid - for several years.

DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG

"I didn't know anybody who looked like me who may or may not have been gay. "A lot of my difficulti were tryg to fd a sense of belongg the football muny whilst knowg that beg gay was this element of my inty that didn't rencile, " says Lemoni.

The tertwg of both homophobia and racism the Fashanu story has ma him a totemic figure the fight agast discrimatn; a charable foundatn Jt's name was recently lnched by his niece Amal. Somebody uld be watchg the show and see a mirror of themselv, pecially if they're a young black man who's gay.

Jam' father Ed has prevly told his son he should hi his sexualy orr to avoid homophobia, makg the ntrast between how neher of them n hi their race and so have to al wh racism. "Unfortunately, homophobic and racist abe still happen, but a footballer like Jam shouldn't have to feel they're alone experiencg that, " says Graham.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

"As I've e out and navigated that journey, I've always felt more nsc of beg black before beg gay, particularly LGBT spac. "Welg cultur, wng mentaliTo help Graham learn more about the experience of beg a sportsman who's gay, the gby league player Keegan Hirst - who me out publicly 2015 - talked him through some of the parallels between his own journey and that of Jam.

"The sle of the two sports is obvly very different, " says Graham, "but om what Keegan said, sounds like the RFL has a zero tolerance towards homophobia wh their sport, which ma him feel like the environment was safe for him to e out. "There n be a victimls mentaly - a feelg that 'we n't be homophobic, bee there aren't actually any gay, bi or qutng players on the pch to be homophobic towards'. It means that for someone experiencg a microaggrsn or smaller form of homophobia that's more vert, the chanc they're gog to report or speak out about are que slim.

Particularly when I liver trag at amy level, I fd the players are ed to havg gay, bi and trans people their schools and they're gettg tn that's clive now as well. RevealedThe actor, who plays Ken Barlow's son Daniel, said he had no qualms about g out publiclyPublished: 18:26, 31 Jan 2017Updated: 17:36, 1 Feb 2017CORONATION Street's Rob Mallard has e out as gay. The actor - who plays Ken Barlow's son Daniel Osbourne the ITV soap - has spoken publicly about beg a gay actor the untry's number one soap and his cisn to not hi who he is.