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KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay footballer show *

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' homophobia.While 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 sexualy.The are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them.RELATED | 17 Athlet Who Came Out As LGBTQ+ 2021.

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.

OPENLY GAY PRO FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO IS ‘THRILLED’ TO JO RUPL’S DRAG RACE AS GUT JUDGE

Beg an out gay man and a soccer player is still somethg that’s greeted wh homophobia. See eight out and proud male gay footballers. * gay footballer show *

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.

HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS

He later me out as gay and has sce spoken out about the difficulti queer players face.

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

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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. When 23-year-old Cavallo me out as gay back October 2021, he changed the world of football, beg the game’s only current top-flight male footballer to be openly queer.

It was a seismic moment for the sport, which has a troublg history of ep-rooted homophobia. Even today, homophobic chantg at football chantg is mon at match, while the sport’s biggt anti-discrimatn mpaign group Kick It Out recently revealed a rerd number of reports of discrimatn durg the 2022/2023 football season. He’s jt been announced as a gut judge on RuPl’s Drag Race Down Unr season three, beg the first gay footballer to s alongsi RuPl on the mammoth drag realy show.

“As the only openly gay male profsnal footballer currently playg top-flight football the world, I’m a big fan of embracg your te self, but for many sport and the queer muny this is really difficult to do, ” Cavallo explaed. Football fields globally are gradually beg more acceptg of the queer muny, wh English Football League One player Jake Daniels g out May 2022 – beg the UK’s only male profsnal footballer to be openly gay sce Jt Fashanu.

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Our list of ne feature-length LGBTQ sports documentari that provi behd-the-scen glimps of heroism and homophobia athletics was such a h, we’re followg up wh a look at feature-length narrative LGBTQ sports films.

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Dennis is a 28-year-old gay man who plays on a Wt Hollywood softball team wh his close, tty pals. Intertgly, this film was directed by gay producer Greg Berlanti (hband of gay soccer player Robbie Rogers) and stars actor John Mahoney who lived the glass closet until his 2017 ath. It was also one of the only gay films durg s time not foced on homophobia and HIV.

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Here are eight out and PROUD male gay footballers .

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