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Contents:

• BUNSLIGA STARS OFFER SUPPORT TO GAY FOOTBALLERS
• ‘I HAVE BEEN FIGHTG MY SEXUALY’: A-LEAGUE MEN PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY
• STORM OVER 'BUNCH OF GAYS' GERMANY'S WORLD CUP TEAM
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• POWERFUL GERMAN SHORT FILM ALS WH A GAY PRO SOCCER PLAYER G OUT
• 20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS
• THE GAY FOOTBALLER WHO CHOSE EEDOM OVER ‘NSTCTED PRISON’
• EX-GERMANY TERNATNAL THOMAS HZLSPERGER: IT WOULD BE GREAT IF A FOOTBALLER ME OUT AS GAY DURG THE QATAR 2022 WORLD CUP
• GERMANY AND BAYERN STAR MAR GOMEZ URG GAY FOOTBALLERS TO GO PUBLIC
• GERMAN FOOTBALLER'S G-OUT SHOWS CHALLENG OF BEG GAY SOCCER
• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

BUNSLIGA STARS OFFER SUPPORT TO GAY FOOTBALLERS

(1:02)Stephan Uersfeld, Germany rrponntFeb 17, 2021, 09:23 AM ETMore than 800 players, both male and female, across Germany have offered their support to any gay footballer addrsg their sexual footballers said they would offer support to anyone stgglg wh their cisn to e out public and, if need be, fend them " the face of hostily. "It's now 2021 -- and still there is not a sgle openly gay football profsnal the men's game Germany, " the appeal, published by German football magaze 11 Frn, said.

‘I HAVE BEEN FIGHTG MY SEXUALY’: A-LEAGUE MEN PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO OUT AS GAY

"#ihrkönntfunszählen⁠⁠In r nen 11FREUNDE Agabe #232 stärken Almuth Schult und über 800 weere Fußballernen und Fußballer Dtschland homosexuellen Spielern n Rücken.

"Philipp Bommer of Hertha Junxx, the first gay fan club Bunsliga, formed 2001, told ESPN that the appeal was "credibly important for players and an important signal for both fans and society.

STORM OVER 'BUNCH OF GAYS' GERMANY'S WORLD CUP TEAM

A-League Men midfielr Josh Cavallo says he knows there are other players “livg silence” after beg the only known current male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay. Labor senate lear and openly gay woman, Penny Wong, tweeted: “Any young person who is stgglg wh their inty, or feelg exclud or judged, n look today to Josh Cavallo.

Amerin former Leeds player Robbie Rogers also announced he was gay on retirg 2013, before returng to the field wh LA Galaxy and wng the MLS Cup to bee the first openly gay male athlete to w a major profsnal team sports tle the Uned 2019, former Newstle Jets player Andy Brennan beme Atralia’s first profsnal male footballer to e out while still playg the game. “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. “The fear of beg attacked and ostracized after g out and of jeopardizg one’s reer as a profsnal footballer is apparently still so great that gay footballers believe they have to hi their sexualy.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

“If one of my lleagu were to e out, I would protect them om the idts outsi our team who feel disturbed, or really threatened by homosexualy, ” he ntued.

However, the lnch of 11Frn‘s mpaign after former German soccer pta Philipp Lahm utned gay players agast g out while they were still active the sport.

READ NEXTActor Tom Holland’s Gay Sex Scene Sparks ControversyKev Spacey Not Guilty of Sexual MisnductGay Film ‘Passag’ Gets Slapped Wh An NC-17 RatgTroye Sivan Confirms That He Is Not, In Fact, A Power Bottom. As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' homophobia.While 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.

POWERFUL GERMAN SHORT FILM ALS WH A GAY PRO SOCCER PLAYER G OUT

Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their sexualy.The are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them.RELATED | 17 Athlet Who Came Out As LGBTQ+ 2021. 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.

German football was engulfed ntroversy today over remarks by the agent of a top footballer, who allegedly referred to a "bunch of gays" the natnal team.

Michael Becker, who has been the agent of German natnal football pta Michael Ballack for more than a , is reported to have ma the ment the latt edn of the news magaze Der an say entled New German Men, Aleksanr Osang reunts an terview he had wh Becker prr to the World Cup which the agent allegedly told him which of the players the team were gay. Asked about the sexualy of one of the newer players, Becker, who is a lawyer by profsn, referred to him as beg "half gay" went on to say that Becker put the new adro, lighter and elegant style of play that has bee a tramark of traer Joachim Löw's players down to their homosexualy, ntrast to the typilly more aggrsive and offensive German style of past years, but suggted they played too litely to assure themselv a place the fal.

20 INSPIRG GAY AND LBIAN FOOTBALL (SOCCER) PLAYERS

The German Football Feratn, which is the sportg associatn wh the largt membership the world, refed to ment, while Löw said he "would not stoop so low" as to the ments have raised ncerns that homosexualy remas one of the major taboos the footballg world.

The only German footballer to have outed himself as gay is the former regnal league player for Erfurt Marc Urban, and that was only after his profsnal reer was over. 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. It hs all the them we associate wh gays male pro team sports -- the fear of beg the first; the fear of distractns; the fear of the fans; the hidg the closet by beg someone you aren't.

THE GAY FOOTBALLER WHO CHOSE EEDOM OVER ‘NSTCTED PRISON’

Daniels ma headl May 2022 when he beme the send profsnal English soccer player to publicly e out as gay, 32 years after Jt Fashanu boldly claimed the tle. Many high-profile English people praised him after he me out as gay, cludg Prce Harry, then-Prime Mister Boris Johnson, and England natnal team pta Harry Kane. This is where Matt Pacifici beme known through his Instagram announcement, a former Major League Soccer player who has e out publicly as gay an Instagram post troducg the world to his boyiend.

In June 2018, he me out as gay, makg him the only openly gay player any of the big five Amerin sports leagu or any top-tier profsnal men’s natnal soccer league.

Anton has been dubbed the “first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay, ” as well as the “send active profsnal football player to e out, ” followg English footballer Jt Fashanu 1990.

EX-GERMANY TERNATNAL THOMAS HZLSPERGER: IT WOULD BE GREAT IF A FOOTBALLER ME OUT AS GAY DURG THE QATAR 2022 WORLD CUP

In December 2017, Davis publicly cricized ments ma by FA chairman Greg Clarke that “profsnal players who out themselv as homosexual would be takg a risk. The 32-year-old has spoken out to enurage male gay footballers to not be aaid of g out, sharg his own experienc as part of Uefa’s Equal Game mpaign, which aims to promote greater cln and diversy the sport.

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

Pter experienced homophobia om other players while playg for his lol club and was moted om the first to the fourth team after one of his teammat disvered he was gay. Acrdg to rearch fdgs, football supporters would like to see homophobia elimated, believe the FA is not dog enough to addrs the issue, and would feel at ease if a member of their team me out as gay. Uned and Mnota Uned FC Major League Soccer, and for Richmond Kickers and Hartford Athletic the Uned Football me out as gay June 2018, makg him the only out man any of the big five Amerin sports leagu or any top-divisn profsnal men's natnal soccer, 26, shared the news on Twter, notg he had been openly gay to his iends and fay for years, but never on such a large platform.

GERMAN FOOTBALLER'S G-OUT SHOWS CHALLENG OF BEG GAY SOCCER

'Mart's announcement ma him one of only two openly gay players Major League Soccer - the other beg Robbie Rogers, who retired shortly after his announcement but me back to play Tto was the first player to e out as a gay man, makg the announcement shortly after his retirement said his cisn to e out on an ternatnal stage was ma 'much easier' by the 'kdns and acceptance' om his fellow players. He released a book named “Comg Out to Play” announced his retirement and sexualy wh a 408-word post on his personal blog, which Rogers wrote, "I'm a soccer player, I'm Christian, and I'm gay.

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Daily Mail has scribed Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the send active profsnal football player to e out, after English footballer Jt Fashanu 1990. At the Stockholm Pri, he livered a speech nouncg sports homophobia and laid to rt his 2001 airport stated that, "I know that many LGBT people have been the victims of asslts and hate crim.

"While Germany as a untry has noticeably bee more and more relaxed about homosexualy recent years, he had also noted there was an unhelpful media obssn wh fdg the first gay footballer. All sorts of well-tend but ultimately unhelpful terventns om heterosexual players – who eher oped that gay players would benef om g out or utned agast – did not exactly fill him wh nfince that this was ed the right former ternatnal, who played the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Champnship, matas that he did not have to lie about his sexualy and that teammat eventually stopped askg about his lack of a girliend. After partg Grimsby Town, Liam went onto play for Selby Town, Brigg Town, Gasborough Try, and most recently Cleethorp Town, who he reprented the 2017 FA Vase Fal at January 2014 Davis bee the UKs hight profile openly gay December 2017, Davis publicly cricized ments ma by FA chairman Greg Clarke that "profsnal players who out themselv as homosexual would be takg a risk.

"Davis urged other homosexual soccer players to e out publicly and not fear a 32-year-old has spoken out enuragg male gay footballers not to worry about g out, sharg his own experienc as part of Uefa’s Equal Game mpaign, to foster greater cln and diversy the midfielr admted receivg abe om opponents, but sists football’s attus to homosexualy are creasgly UrbanMarc Urban, born 4 Augt 1971, is a former German football player.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

He has spoken publicly about the difficulti that gay footballers’ experience and he is now a spokperson and mpaigner on diversy issu sport and the was sent to a sports boardg school at age 13 and played for the natnal youth teams the 1990s before settlg at send divisn club Rot-Weiss Erfurt.

He is now on the board of You Can Play, an anizatn dited to the fight agast homophobia PterPter liv Balham wh his hband Alan and works as an assistant manager at Boots. He was appoted as a Member of the Orr of the Brish Empire bee of his work batg realized at the age of 10 that he was gay, and alt wh homophobic abe om his schoolmat.

While playg for his lol club, Pter suffered homophobia om other players and was dropped om the first team to the fourth team after one of his teammat found out that he was gay. Berlg's se was ced several tim the upg years, as the nnectn between homophobia and sport was discsed the natnal media now and FashanuJt Soni Fashanu (19 Febary 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for var clubs between 1978 and 1997.