Blackpool's Jake Daniels has bee the first active openly gay male footballer the UK sce 1990 after g out on Monday.
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- BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY MALE FOOTBALLER 32 YEARS
- BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY MALE FOOTBALLER 32 YEARS
- HOW HOMOPHOBIA CLAIMED THE LIFE AND REER OF JT FASHANU, THE WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
- HOW JT FASHANU WAS CRICISED BY HIS BROTHER JOHN AFTER G OUT AS GAY 1990
- JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY MALE FOOTBALLER 32 YEARS
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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. 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.
BLACKPOOL'S JAKE DANIELS BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE OPENLY GAY MALE FOOTBALLER 32 YEARS
Blackpool's Jake Daniels has bee the first active openly gay male footballer the UK sce 1990 after g out on Monday. * gay footballer 1990 *
"Daniels be the latt male athlete to e out after Alai Uned's Josh Cavallo beme the only openly gay top-flight male profsnal player world football at the time last June, Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. "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.
HOW HOMOPHOBIA CLAIMED THE LIFE AND REER OF JT FASHANU, THE WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
Thirty years ago, on 22 October 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the world’s first profsnal footballer to e out as gay. To this day, he’s the UK’s only top-tier male football star to clare his homosexualy while playg this untry.
At the time, he said he knew 12 other Premier League footballers who were gay or bisexual.
HOW JT FASHANU WAS CRICISED BY HIS BROTHER JOHN AFTER G OUT AS GAY 1990
Jt me out The Sun newspaper, unr the headle “£1m soccer star: I am GAY”.
JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
“John Fashanu: My gay brother is an outst” screamed the headle. However, he ntued to disrpect his brother’s memory when he claimed a 2012 terview wh talkSPORT rad that his brother was not gay but merely a fame-obssed attentn-seeker.
Homosexuals are the greatt queer-bashers around. Jt later told The Voice: “Those who say that you n’t be black, gay and proud of are ignorant.
Jt faced a lot of cricism for choosg to e out the right-wg, homophobic Sun newspaper, which many black people also regard as racist. By g out The Sun, he hoped s reporters would cease houndg him: “I genuely thought that if I me out the worst newspapers and remaed strong and posive about beg gay, there would be nothg more that they uld say. Some people say the prs knew Jt was gay and were planng to out him.