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• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• JAKE DANIELS: WHY BLACKPOOL PLAYER’S CISN TO E OUT AS GAY MATTERS
• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER, 17, OUT, BEG ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER BRA
• 17-YEAR-OLD IS FIRST ACTIVE UK PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY S
• BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY MALE FOOTBALLER 32 YEARS
• BLACKPOOL STAR JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST CURRENT BRISH FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK’S ONLY ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL TO E OUT AS GAY
• BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS ENDS 32-YEAR WA FOR GAY UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO COME OUT
• BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL PLAYER BRA

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

"Blackpool forward Jake Daniels speaks exclively on beg the UK's first male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay sce Jt talks about g out to his parents, his club, and his team-mat. I n't really put a date on , but I was probably five or six years old when I knew I was gay. Zanr Murray signs for Bonnyrigg Rose to bee only openly gay player SPFL.

JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990

Jake Daniels: England's only openly gay active footballer reveals Tom Daley spired him to e out. Jt Fashanu: LGBTQ+ Norwich fan group raisg money to stall statue of first openly gay footballer. At that age you don't really thk that football and beg gay don't mix.

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JAKE DANIELS: WHY BLACKPOOL PLAYER’S CISN TO E OUT AS GAY MATTERS

Football v Homophobia: "Football v Homophobia would like to ngratulate Jake on takg this step to share his thentic self the men's profsnal game, pecially at such a young age. "There have prevly been players who felt that they had no place the game as out gay men durg their playg reers, but Jake is showg the world that you n be yourself. To e out publicly as the first openly gay player men's profsnal football the UK the last 30 years tak urage.

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER, 17, OUT, BEG ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER BRA

The Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has end s of silence wh men’s football to bee the first player the UK to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990. Photograph: Pl Dennis/TGS Photo/ShutterstockDaniels’s revelatn is a strikg landmark that when men’s football is more engaged wh social issu than any recent time, but still unable to ce progrs LGBTQ reprentatn wh the year Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo beme the only male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay, but others are yet to follow.

In six months the men’s World Cup will be played Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, and Cavallo revealed to the Guardian he would be “sred” to play at the tournament, the pnacle of world English football specifilly, the shadow of the talented and unfulfilled Fashanu still lgers over the game. The England ternatnal me out at the end of his reer and was to take his own life eight years later, Fashanu, Jt’s niece, who ns a charable foundatn his name, said that Daniels’s cisn would “e as a huge fort to the many footballers at all levels of the game still secretly livg as gay and who still feel unable to e out”.

17-YEAR-OLD IS FIRST ACTIVE UK PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY S

When 17-year-old Jake Daniels publicly me out as a gay on Monday, phon pged as the UK’s media raced to ph out news alerts. “I’ve known my whole life that I’m gay, and I now feel that I’m ready to e out and be myself, ” the English footballer said his statement. Until Monday, Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo was the only current openly gay top-flight male profsnal footballer the world.

Daniels is the first profsnal male player to e out as gay the UK the last 30 years, says the Brish LGBTQ advocy group Stonewall. Jt Fashanu was the first and, until now, only active male profsnal footballer the UK to speak publicly about beg a gay man. It was only last month that a football fan was banned om watchg live football by a Brish urt for three years for shoutg homophobic abe at a Premier League match between Brighton and Hove Albn and Arsenal October 2021.

BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY MALE FOOTBALLER 32 YEARS

Men’s profsnal football is still behd the women’s game – there were 40 openly gay, lbian and bisexual players at the 2019 Women’s World Cup – and other sports. Daniels, who said he had known he was gay sce the age of five or six, received support om his club and Stonewall before makg his statement and he will need that to ntue bee beg a trailblazer n be a heavy load to rry.

Jake Daniels, a 17-year-old forward for Blackpool FC England’s send tier, publicly me out as gay Monday a statement released by the club. “I’ve known my whole life that I’m gay, and I now feel that I’m ready to e out and be myself. “To e out publicly as the first openly gay player men’s profsnal football the UK the last 30 years tak urage.

BLACKPOOL STAR JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST CURRENT BRISH FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY

ESPNMay 16, 2022, 12:35 PM ETBlackpool's Jake Daniels has bee the first active openly gay profsnal male footballer the UK sce 1990 after g out publicly and makg an announcement on 17-year-old recently signed a profsnal ntract wh the Champnship team and ma his club but earlier this month.

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK’S ONLY ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL TO E OUT AS GAY

Speakg to Sky Sports, Daniels said he hop he n bee a role mol for others and hop there will be a gay Premier League footballer the 17 LGBTQ+ athlet share their g out journeys"Of urse I am aware that there will be a reactn to this and some of will be homophobic, maybe a stadium and on social media, " he said. ✊?️‍? — FIFPRO (@FIFPRO) May 16, 2022 Jt Fashanu beme the first openly gay male Brish footballer 1990 but took his own life at the age of 37, eight years after g out publicly to the Fashanu, there has not been a sgle male player to publicly e out durg his playg reer.

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"I n't really put a date on , but I was probably five or six years old when I knew I was gay.

BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS ENDS 32-YEAR WA FOR GAY UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO COME OUT

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It mak the youngster the first Brish profsnal footballer the men's game to e out publicly sce Jt Fashanu 1990 - makg him the only current player to be openly gay. "I want to be a role mol myself by dog this, " he more: Profsnal male footballer Josh Cavallo out as gay world firstPrime Mister Boris Johnson mend the "bravery" and "urage" of the Blackpool Johnson tweeted: "Thank you for your bravery Jake, would have taken huge urage to e out and you will be an spiratn to many both on and off the pch. "I’ve known my whole life that I’m gay, and I now feel that I’m ready to e out and be myself, " he said.

BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL PLAYER BRA

"To e out publicly as the first openly gay player men's profsnal football the UK the last 30 years tak urage. "Brish men's football is ready to wele openly gay and bi players.

Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has bee the UK’s first male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay sce Jt Fashanu. Daniels ntued: “I n't really put a date on , but I was probably five or six years old when I knew I was gay. “At that age you don't really thk that football and beg gay don't mix.

In school people even ed to ask me: 'Are you sure you aren't gay? ”He add that g out to his fay, club and team-mat had helped him be more nfint and happy to be June 2018, Coll Mart, then of Mnota Uned MLS, beme the world’s only current openly gay, active male profsnal October 2021, Atralian Josh Cavallo also me out as Norwich Cy and Nottgham Fort player Fashanu beme the UK’s first openly gay male profsnal footballer when he me out an terview wh The Sun 1990. Fashanu later took his own life 1998 at the age of is the only openly gay player to have ever featured the Premier League.