Trick Wire: German Natnal Team Has Gay Players?: Some Gay Sensibili

Contents:

• GERMAN GOALIE ENURAG GAY FOOTBALLERS TO 'E OUT'
• FORMER GOALKEEPER FOR GERMAN NATNAL TEAM ADVIS GAY PLAYERS TO STAY CLOSETED
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GERMANY AND BAYERN STAR MAR GOMEZ URG GAY FOOTBALLERS TO GO PUBLIC

GERMAN GOALIE ENURAG GAY FOOTBALLERS TO 'E OUT'

When German soccer player Mar Gomez lled on gay soccer players to e out, surely he wasn’t limg his requt only to male footballers. Manuel Ner, the 24-year-old Schalke 04 star, told Germany's Bunte magaze Wednday that gay footballers should go public about their sexualy and 'take a load off their mds'. AFP - German ternatnal goalkeeper Manuel Ner exprsed his sire on Wednday for homosexual footballers to go public over their sexualy, addg would take a load off their 24-year-old Schalke 04 star told Bunte magaze that supporters didn't re about a player's sexualy, only how he performed on the pch.

"Y, those who are homosexual should say so. "Ner's plea is rare football where homosexualy is regard as a taboo several ocsns Bunsliga players have spoken the prs anonymoly about the difficulti they faced hidg the fact that they are late English player Jt Fashanu is the hight-profile footballer to have admted he was talented striker paid for as Nottgham Fort manager Brian Clough - who had nvced the board to pay 1 ln pounds for him 1981 - did not take kdly to his revelatns and nstantly ma fun of him, even barrg him om trag wh the squad. A former goalkeeper for the German natnal team advis gay players to stay the closet, even as he nclus that homosexualy is not a “big al” society anymore, Pk News reports.

“It may sound sad, but I wouldn’t advise [a gay player] to e out, ” Oliver Kahn, 44, says. He says abe om fans of opposg teams is a potential problem for gay players.

FORMER GOALKEEPER FOR GERMAN NATNAL TEAM ADVIS GAY PLAYERS TO STAY CLOSETED

While Kahn’s pot of view dovetails wh that of Germany’s current team pta, Philipp Lahm, both men’s perspectiv ntrast wh that of the former head of the German Football Associatn, Theo Zwanziger, who last year lled on gay players to e out of the closet. German Chancellor Angela Merkel also joed the bate late last year when she said gay footballers should have no fear clarg their sexualy, reported.

In November 2010, German striker Mar Gomez also said beg gay shouldn’t be a “taboo topic, ” suggtg that openly gay footballers “would play as if they had been liberated.

Profsnal Footballers’ Associatn (PFA) chairman Clarke Carlisle has said that at least eight players have told him they are gay, wh seven sayg they are reluctant to go public bee of the potential negative reactn of fans and media. We are tryg to create an atmosphere for people to e out safely, but at the moment there is a big barrier, ” Gay Football Supporters Network chairman Chris Basiurski says the report. "Not everybody is as fortable announcg to the world who they are wh but I thk that is the same straight and gay relatnships.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy between 1933 and 1945. It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.

They also arrted large numbers of gay men unr Paragraph 175. It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay.

GERMANY AND BAYERN STAR MAR GOMEZ URG GAY FOOTBALLERS TO GO PUBLIC

Intifyg as a gay man was never explicly crimalized Germany. However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such.

Beg gay uld and often did rult persecutn. However, other factors also shaped gay men’s liv durg the Nazi era. This diversy meant that gay men had a wi range of experienc Nazi Germany.