Jt Fashanu, the first openly gay footballer, killed himself wh his life mired chaos and jury. As documentary Forbidn Gam sts light on his tragic story, his siblg talks about their troubled relatnship
Contents:
- DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI
- BRA'S FIRST OUT GAY FOOTBALLER JT FASHANU WHO KILLED HIMSELF AT 37 TURNED TO ITV DRAMA
- SUICI OF GAY FOOTBALLER
- WAS AARON HERNANZ GAY? DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR FOOTBALL PLAYER'S RUMORED SEXUAL PAST
- EX-NFL PLAYER RYAN O’CALLAGHAN NEARLY KILLED HIMSELF STEAD OF G OUT AS GAY
DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI
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The story of Jt Fashanu – the world’s first £1m black footballer and Bra’s first openly gay footballer, who killed himself aged 37 1998 – mak a movg, challengg, troublg bpic. Durg that time, he veloped a taste for big spendg and fast livg, also makg regular appearanc Nottgham’s gay bars. “One of the most famo players, playg for Nottgham Fort, jt said to me: ‘Hey, your brother’s gay.
Photograph: Bob Thomas/Getty ImagSo to “empower” his brother, John wrote a cheque and had his agent take Jt to a hotel, only to disver that “my agent was a gay sympathiser”.
BRA'S FIRST OUT GAY FOOTBALLER JT FASHANU WHO KILLED HIMSELF AT 37 TURNED TO ITV DRAMA
Jt Fashanu, Bra's first openly gay footballer, killed himself May 1998. He mted suici London, followg allegatns that he had sexually... * gay footballer who killed himself *
But he had already left for last time the brothers spoke, Jt feared for his liberty, but John, spe now acceptg homosexualy as “a normal thg”, was “too annoyed to unrstand what he was really sayg” and did not believe that Jt served his unndnal loyalty. It mt have been difficult to try to add a discsn of his sexualy, while beg reful not to somehow blame his actns on reprsed homosexualy.
SUICI OF GAY FOOTBALLER
And he’s an outspoken, gay-rights activist, jt om beg on the Patrts and not beg able to really say anythg. Fashanu, a former Dr Barnardo's boy who was fostered at the age of five wh his olr brother John, went on to bee the first £1 ln black footballer Bra when he was signed by Nottgham Fort 1981 aged a famoly difficult relatnship wh the club's then manager, Brian Clough, and Fashanu's renowned temper soon found him out of favour wh the club and he slipped quickly and spectacular fashn om the First Divisn of English football to the backwaters of the Third his own words, Fashanu's failure to achieve the succs his talent served was due, part, to his admissn that he was gay.
WAS AARON HERNANZ GAY? DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR FOOTBALL PLAYER'S RUMORED SEXUAL PAST
I was very upset when Jt turned gay. "He had already admted he was gay.
The life of Jt Fashanu, the first profsnal footballer England to e out as gay, and his brother John, is beg adapted to an ITV drama by Bafta-nomated wrer Kwame 20, Jt beme one of the first footballers to mand a £1ln transfer fee when he moved om Norwich Cy to Nottgham Fort 1990, he was the first male footballer to publicly e out as gay. In 1990, Jt Fashanu h headl worldwi when he beme the first profsnal footballer to e out as gay (pictured above his Norwich Cy k April 1981) The seri, tled Fash, will dramatise how 1981 his younger brother John signed to Norwich Cy, the same club where Jt ma his Jt's 'star fas' and life be mired by pch-si mour and ont-page tabloid headl, John superses Jt as the 'famo Fashanu' and by the time of his ath, the two are wholly tranged.
EX-NFL PLAYER RYAN O’CALLAGHAN NEARLY KILLED HIMSELF STEAD OF G OUT AS GAY
'The seri will be produced by Happy Prce, part of ITV Studs, and will premiere on ITV1 and also be available as a boxset on ITVX once the first episo has story of UK's first pro footballer to e out as gay 1990: How Jt Fashanu was disowned by his brother John who paid him £75K to keep his sexualy secret and warned he would 'suffer the nsequenc'... Eight years before his suiciby Harry HowardJt Fashanu h headl worldwi 1990 when he beme the first profsnal footballer to e out as gay.