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• ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST SENR STTISH MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY
• STLAND'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ON BREAKG STEREOTYP AND HIS OWN LIBERATN
• GAY STTISH SOCCER PLAYER ZANR MURRAY IS THE SUBJECT OF A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST OPENLY GAY STTISH FOOTBALLER: "I THOUGHT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"

ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST SENR STTISH MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY

Gala Fairyan Rovers forward Zanr Murray has bee the first senr Sttish football player to e out as is the first openly gay player the men’s profsnal game Stland sce Jt Fashanu wh Airdrie and Hearts the 30-year-old, who is his fourth season wh the Lowland League club, said he ma the cisn to help others who wish to open an terview wh the club webse, Murray said: “(It) feels like the weight of the world is now off my shoulrs. After three s of verg up and nyg his te sexualy, the striker was now the first openly gay Sttish footballer.

STLAND'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER ON BREAKG STEREOTYP AND HIS OWN LIBERATN

Durg lockdown the Lowland League striker bge-watched It’s A S, the Channel 4 seri wrten by Rsell T Davi, pictg the life of gay men durg the AIDS crisis 1980s affected by what he saw, he end a heterosexual relatnship wh a girliend shortly April 2021, he felt ready to divulge who he really was to iends and fay. They put gay guys a pk box wh bows on. ‘You n be gay and like fba’.

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Regard as a rough-and-ready, macho, workg-class sport, Murray stayed the closet as long as he did for fear of the likely reactn of supporters and Airdrie and Hearts striker Jt Fashanu was the last openly gay player the Sttish game the 1990s.

GAY STTISH SOCCER PLAYER ZANR MURRAY IS THE SUBJECT OF A NEW DOCUMENTARY

The omerta surroundg homosexualy wh the natnal game was fally shattered when Blackpool striker Jake Daniels me out earlier this year. ‘There are gay footballers Stland.

ZANR MURRAY BE FIRST OPENLY GAY STTISH FOOTBALLER: "I THOUGHT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"

I want to get to a day where a gay footballer is no longer natnal news. We have to get to a pot where gay players n s a drsg room after a game and say: “I’m gog out for a few drks wh my boyiend” and no one bats an eyelid.

‘I thought: “Oh no, what if they fd out I’m gay?

’Recently appoted a diversy champn for gay rights group Stonewall, Murray is an experienced reers advisor and will e those skills to give talks schools. ‘Sce I went public, I’ve had many olr men e up to me and say: “My nephew’s gay.