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• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• 17-YEAR-OLD IS FIRST ACTIVE UK PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY S
• THOMAS BEATTIE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY AS SEND BRISH MALE PRO FOOTBALLER TO E OUT
• MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY BRISH FOOTBALL PLAYER FASHANU MAK HALL OF FAME
• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• JAKE DANIELS: WHY BLACKPOOL PLAYER’S CISN TO E OUT AS GAY MATTERS

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

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”. 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.

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

Atralian striker Andy Brennan me out as gay 2019, beg the first out gay Atralian male footballer. He me out 2011, and won the seventh season of Swedish realy show Let's Dance, beg the first out gay person to w. He me out as gay 2022.

THOMAS BEATTIE ANNOUNC HE IS GAY AS SEND BRISH MALE PRO FOOTBALLER TO E OUT

His early clubs knew he was gay, and he me out durg his reer, beg the first pro footballer to do so. In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley. He later me out as gay and has sce spoken out about the difficulti queer players face.

MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY

He me out as gay 2019. The South Ain footballer beme Ai's first out, gay male footballer when he me out 2015.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

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.

Later, he revealed he qu the sport as a rult of homophobia he faced when he me out. 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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY BRISH FOOTBALL PLAYER FASHANU MAK HALL OF FAME

“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. Thomas Beattie - who progrsed through the youth ranks at Hull Cy - follows Jt Fashanu as the only Brish male profsnal footballers to announce they are gayFormer Hull Cy youth player Thomas Beattie has announced he is gay - beg jt the send Brish male profsnal footballer to e out. Beattie follows patrt Jt Fashanu pl Thomas Hzlsperger and Robbie Rogers as players who have played profsnally Brian nfirmg their homosexualy havg enjoyed a profsnal reer of over 10 years the USA, Canada and Sgapore.

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

Thomas Beattie has e out as gay.

Sce then, there have been so few visible stori of gay men our sport, pecially England. German midfielr Thomas Hzlsperger, the only known gay man to play the Premier League, me out 2014, the year after he gay and havg a reer football never felt like an optn. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is gay, and the thgs are all football, there's still fear a gay teammate might dispt the team environment.

Sometim 's bshed away, like homophobia isn't an issue football anymore. I have heard gay slurs fly around changg rooms and on the pch. I mean, one of the worst thgs you n say to someone a sportg environment is: "You're so gay.

GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

The more I uld stay awake, the more I uld put off addrsg how I really a sophomore I was named the program's first-ever first-team All-Amerin. This is nothg new for a closeted gay athlete.

Do not fear the day where a gay athlete is wearg the badge on your shirt.

After all, we uld be missg out on the next Lnel Msi, who jt might happen to be gay.

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

Football, like any other game, also has many gay players. 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.

This listicle will mentn eight male football players who dared to e out as gay. Seventeen male footballers have urageoly revealed their sexualy as gay public so far.