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Contents:

• ANDY BRENNAN IS ATRALIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE SOCCER PLAYER
• 'I DIDN'T KNOW ANY FOOTBALLERS WHO WERE GAY'
• ‘NO WORDS’: GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO LLS OUT HOMOPHOBIC CROWD ABE
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• ASIE FOOTBALLERS IN SNDAL AFTER ALLEGEDLY PERFORMG GAY SEX ACT IN PUBLIC
• ATRALIAN PRO FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY
• GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALL STAR JOSH CAVALLO SLAMS FIFA OVER 2022 QATAR WORLD CUP STANCE ON GAY RIGHTS
• JOSH CAVALLO: FOOTBALLER OUT AS WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PLAYER TOP-FLIGHT OF GAME
• JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY
• JOSH CAVALLO: ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER OUT AS GAY, SAYG: 'I'M TIRED OF THIS DOUBLE LIFE'
• JOSH CAVALLO: THE WORLD’S ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-TIER MEN’S FOOTBALLER
• ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO COM OUT, BE WORLD’S ONLY ACTIVE GAY MALE SOCCER PLAYER
• GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
• ATRALIAN SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY
• GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER ‘SRED’ TO PLAY QATAR
• FIFA WORLD CUP: GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER "SRED" TO PLAY IN QATAR
• GAY ASIE FOOTBALLER ‘SRED FOR HIS LIFE’ IF HE PLAYS AT QATAR WORLD CUP

ANDY BRENNAN IS ATRALIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE SOCCER PLAYER

“Beg gay, sport, and the closet, has been a mental burn of not knowg how those around you will react.

''Out and proud: Yarra Valley footballer Jason Ball, third om left, wants the AFL to air anti-homophobia vios at the grand fal this Ken IrwThe 24-year-old, who plays for Yarra Glen senrs the Yarra Valley Mounta District Football League, is a rare voice a football world that gay groups say is stgglg to e to terms wh homosexualy s such groups agree sexualy is a private matter, they say is signifint that no AFL players have revealed their homosexualy.

'I DIDN'T KNOW ANY FOOTBALLERS WHO WERE GAY'

There are mours that a TV work has offered a gay AFL player a six-figure sum to be the first footballer to e, backed by onle-petn movement, Ball will lnch a mpaign urgg the league to air anti-homophobia vios at the MCG durg this month's grand fal.

Beyondblue chairman Jeff Kent, who last week lnched a mpaign highlightg the mental health impact of homophobia, backed Ball's petn. ''It after the AFL last month wrote a letter of support for ''No to Homophobia'' - a mpaign n by gay rights and social jtice groups - but were cricised for not dog fact St Kilda's Stephen Milne ped wh a $3000 fe and an tn urse rather than a spensn, after llg Collgwood fenr Harry O'Brien a ''f---g homo'', implied that sexual vilifitn was treated ls serly than other forms of discrimatn, Ball said. ''It's no wonr that no gay player at a profsnal level would e out when the AFL is not workg as uld to create a more posive and clive environment for that to happen.

''Dr Carole Symons, a senr lecturer social policy sport at Victoria Universy, says a 2010 report she -thored surveyg the gay and lbian muny found football was the harst sport for people to be open about their sexualy. Josh Cavallo, who last year beme the only openly gay profsnal top flight men’s footballer the world, says he has “no words” to scribe his disappotment at beg targeted by homophobic abe durg an A-League Men game over the Alai Uned player me on as a send-half substute durg the Reds’ away game at Melbourne Victory on Saturday night and said afterwards that he had received abe om the crowd at AAMI 22-year-old received acclaim om across the globe October when he me out via Alai’s social media channels. “I’m not gog to pretend that I didn’t see or hear the homophobic abe at the game last night, ” Cavallo wrote on Instagram on Sunday.

‘NO WORDS’: GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO LLS OUT HOMOPHOBIC CROWD ABE

”Cavallo also said he was targeted after the game on Instagram and ed his own post to ll out the social media platform for the way als wh homophobic abe. ”The Atralian Profsnal Leagu said was “shocked and sadned” to hear of the reports of the “homophobic bullyg”.

But tak guts to e out and reveal one’s genr as gay, which is ually an act of urage a world that is not ndned to accept every genr. Even though has already been three s sce Jt Fashanu first publicly me out as gay, there are only a few of them revealg .

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

The primary reason behd many gay footballers not revealg their sexualy publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pch. So, many profsnal leagu, teams, and players are raisg their voic to fight back agast homophobia so that gay footballers don’t face backlash while g out. In 2020, durg the San Diego Loyal match agast Phoneix Risg FC, Mart released a story of homophobic sults directed toward him.

One of the hight-profile male football players publicly clarg himself as gay is German footballer Thomas Hzlsperger. Anton Hysen is the youngt son of retired Swedish footballer Glenn Hysen and one of the gay players football. Later, he was profiled on Swedish broadstg channel TV4 March 2011 a bate show (Can gays play football too?

Likewise, he also participated the 7th edn of the realy TV show Lets Dance and beme the first-ever gay to w the ntt.

ASIE FOOTBALLERS IN SNDAL AFTER ALLEGEDLY PERFORMG GAY SEX ACT IN PUBLIC

Later, on 22nd October 1990, The Sun Tabloid newspaper published the headle “£1m Football Star: I AM GAY”.

Likewise, The Jt Fashanu All-stars football special event started Brighton to honor him and promote homosexualy football. In June 2020, former profsnal footballer Tomas Beattie me out as gay durg an Amerin sports channel ESPN terview.

Furthermore, he is one of the send Brish football players to publicly e out as gay after Jt Fashanu did 30 years ago. Therefore, a suable environment should be created through tn as a drivg factor, so gay footballers don’t feel prsured to reveal their sexualy.

ATRALIAN PRO FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO ANNOUNC HE IS GAY

As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' soccer remas one of the most popular sports around the world, very few players have been able to e out and enjoy a succsful reer afterwards. Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them. He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w.

In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley. Rogers me out as gay 2013, beg the first out gay man to pete a top North Amerin pro sports league when he played for the LA Galaxy that same year. Atralian profsnal footballer Josh Cavallo announced on Wednday that he is gay a vio msage released by his A-League club Alai Uned.

“Beg a gay closeted footballer, I’ve had to learn to mask my feelgs orr to f the mold of a profsnal footballer, ” Cavallo wrote. In 2014, former Germany ternatnal Thomas Hzlsperger me out as gay the year after he announced his retirement om football.

GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALL STAR JOSH CAVALLO SLAMS FIFA OVER 2022 QATAR WORLD CUP STANCE ON GAY RIGHTS

Amerin ternatnal Robbie Rogers announced he was gay when retirg om profsnal football Febary 2013, but subsequently returned to the sport wh MLS club LA Galaxy three months later and went on to w the MLS Cup.

Groundbreakg gay Asie football Josh Cavallo has nmned FIFA for their stance on gay rights at the World Cup Qatar an emotnal social media post. It as the world's most powerful sportg anisatn threatened to ban ptas, cludg England's Harry Kane, Welsh superstar Gareth Bale, Belgium's En Hazard and outspoken Danish skipper Christian Eriksen, who were set to wear the rabow 'One Love' armband prott at the Qatari regime's opprsive lack of gay rights. Alai Uned star Josh Cavallo, who beme Atralia's first openly gay male footballer after g out last year, has slammed 'dranian' FIFA for their stance on LGBTI rights England skipper Harry Kane was set to wear the One Love armband all of the untry's gam, but was forced to back down after FIFA announced would ban any players who did soIt's a suatn that don't s well wh Cavallo, who lled FIFA 'dranian' for their stance banng the seven European ptas om supportg gay rights.

The 23-year-old Alai Uned star me out as gay October last year, and has sce urageoly bee a poster boy for improvg LGBTI+ rights across the sportg wrote a sthg social media post nmng the world football associatn - who have left many people scratchg their heads about why on earth the Arab untry was award the tournament the first place. Josh Cavallo slammed the world football body for not makg the sport a safe and clive place for gay people'All the work we're dog to make football more clive you have shown that football isn't a place for everyone. Cavallo and his Alai Uned teammat wore a gay pri jersey earlier this year to promote clivy 'As players, we fully support the rights of LGBTI+ people, but Qatar people are not ee to love the person they choose, ' the vio, released on Socceroos' social media pag late October, said.

JOSH CAVALLO: FOOTBALLER OUT AS WORLD'S ONLY OPENLY GAY PLAYER TOP-FLIGHT OF GAME

To be a great lear sport, one mtnever give up tryg to brg ALLpeople together ❤️ — Josh Cavallo (@JoshuaCavallo) November 20, 2022 Sadly, the spotlight on homosexualy beg punishable by jail and ath by stong Qatar is far om the only current tragedy affectg gay people were murred and 25 were jured durg a mass shootg event at a gay nightclub the USA on Sunday. A footballer om Atralia has e out as gay, makg him the world's only openly gay male player the top-flight of the Cavallo ma the announcement a seri of posts on Twter earlier on a vio, the Alai Uned player said: "I'm a footballer, and I'm gay.

JOSH CAVALLO BE ONE OF THE FEW PROFSNAL MEN'S FOOTBALLERS TO E OUT AS GAY

Ashamed I'd never be able to do what I love and be gay", he 21-year-old, om Melbourne add: "All I want to do is play football, and be treated equally. "The footballer, who plays as both a left back and central midfielr, said had been a stggle to get to this pot, and that he had been battlg his sexualy but was "proud" to make the said he hop will enurage more gay footballers to e out and create a culture change the sport.

JOSH CAVALLO: ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER OUT AS GAY, SAYG: 'I'M TIRED OF THIS DOUBLE LIFE'

South Atralia Senator Penny Wong thanked Cavallo for his is still unmon for male footballers to e out as gay while they are still Hzlsperger, who played for Aston Villa, Wt Ham and Everton, waed until he retired before g out Mart, an openly gay male profsnal footballer who plays the US's equivalent of the send divisn, ngratulated Josh Cavallo on social media.

Atralian footballer Josh Cavallo has e out as gay, beg one of the few profsnal men's soccer players the world to do so.

JOSH CAVALLO: THE WORLD’S ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-TIER MEN’S FOOTBALLER

Ashamed I would never be able to do what I love and be gay, hidg who I really am to pursue a dream I always wished for as a kid.

Soccer player for the San Diego Loyal, me out publicly as gay 2018 when he was playg for the Mnota Uned.

Andy Brennan beme the first openly gay Atralian footballer when he me out 2019, acrdg to the Guardian. Male profsnal athlet e out as the first openly gay players currently participatg their rpective sports, cludg NHL hockey player Le Prokop and NFL fensive end Carl Nassib.

ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO COM OUT, BE WORLD’S ONLY ACTIVE GAY MALE SOCCER PLAYER

When Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo sat down to film his announcement to the world that he was g out as gay, he didn’t know what to expect. If he were to be nsired for Atralia’s natnal team (he has played at unr-20 level), he would be aaid to go to the World Cup next year, as is hosted Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal.

GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR

Atralian profsnal footballer Josh Cavallo publicly me out as gay on social media this week, makg him the only active, male, openly gay top-flight pro footballer the 21-year-old midfielr for Alai Uned opened up about the cisn to publicly announce his sexualy an open letter posted on Twter.

ATRALIAN SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY

It is astonishg to know that there are currently no gay profsnal footballers who are out and actively playg, not only Atralia, but around the world. Back 2014, the chief executiv of Atralia’s ma profsnal sports signed a mment to “tackle” homophobia football, gby, and cricket.

GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER ‘SRED’ TO PLAY QATAR

In 2019, Atralian footballer and former A-Lege player Andy Brennan ma history as Atralia’s first male pro footballer to e out as, Cavallo is the only openly gay A-League male pro footballer currently playg, and one of the few profsnal men’s soccer players the world to ever publicly e out. Cavallo also now jos the ranks of Amerin pro athlet Carl Nassib and Le Prokop, who also publicly me out as gay this year.

”The soccer player end the vio wh this strong claratn: “I’m Josh Cavallo, I’m a footballer, and I’m proud to be gay. The world’s only openly gay top‑flight men’s footballer says he would be “sred” to play at the World Cup tournament Qatar next year bee of the emirate’s harsh ban on homosexualy and legal penalti rangg om floggg to lengthy prison terms and Cavallo, 21, who plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A-League, received a wave of support om football fans and current and former players last month after openg up about his sexualy a vio posted to the club’s social media feeds.

”The announcement ma Cavallo the only out gay player men’s profsnal football, his isolatn stark a sport whose admistrators have lnched high-profile public mpaigns recent years embracg LGBT fans and only a handful of male players have ever e out, ntrast to the women’s game, which has easily blown past the same barrier: more than 40 lbian or bisexual players took part the 2019 women’s World Cup France, acrdg to Fifa. Crics have raised the fact that Fifa ntu to award World Cups to untri such as Rsia – where homophobia has been lled a “state‑sponsored” project – and Qatar, where same-sex acts are illegal, as evince of the erng body’s patchy mment to if holdg the tournament a untry wh strict penalti for homosexualy sent the wrong msage to gay footballers and fans, Cavallo, who has played for Atralia’s unr-20s ternatnal si, told the Guardian’s daily news podst that he would be aaid for his safety if asked to participate the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

FIFA WORLD CUP: GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER "SRED" TO PLAY IN QATAR

'I'm a footballer and I'm gay': A-League player Josh Cavallo talks about his sexualy – vio“I read somethg along the l of that [they] give the ath penalty for gay people Qatar, so ’s somethg I’m very sred [of] and wouldn’t really want to go to Qatar for that, ” he said. At the end of the day the World Cup is Qatar and one of the greatt achievements as a profsnal footballer is to play for your untry, and to know that this is a untry that don’t support gay people and puts at risk of our own life, that do sre me and mak me re-evaluate – is my life more important than dog somethg really good my reer? Mlims the untry n be subject to Sharia law that bans any sexual activy outsi marriage wh punishments rangg up to the ath penalty, meang homosexual acts n technilly rult executn, though several human rights reports have said there is no evince any gay people have been executed for the offence.

GAY ASIE FOOTBALLER ‘SRED FOR HIS LIFE’ IF HE PLAYS AT QATAR WORLD CUP

”Along wh the appallg ndns for migrant workers buildg the astcture for the tournament, the prospect of gay fans or players beg arrted Qatar has dogged Fifa sce the emirate was announced as host of the tournament 2010. The anisatn’s then print, Sepp Blatter, fuelled the ntroversy the same year when he was asked if he had any advice for gay people who wanted to travel to the Gulf state for the petn. But they walk a fe le between acmodatg what are now mastream attus towards gay people much of the world and the untry’s own nservative relig the tournament has approached, Qatari officials have sought to reassure LGBT fans that they will be wele the untry and n exprs themselv – wh lims.

”Prsed at the time over how Qataris would react to a gay uple holdg hands, Khater said they would be treated the same as a heterosexual uple.

“There’s somethg personal that I need to share wh everyone: I’m a footballer, and I am gay, ” Cavallo said a vio published Wednday by Alai Uned, his A-League 21-year-old Cavallo said he’s the first player to e out while still playg Atralia’s top-flight men’s soccer petn. Brendon Thorne / APA talented player who reprented Atralia at junr level, Cavallo thought people would thk of him differently and treat him differently if he told them he was gay.