Gay footballer Josh Cavallo to jo RuPl's Drag Race as judge

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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• OPENLY GAY PRO FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO IS ‘THRILLED’ TO JO RUPL’S DRAG RACE AS GUT JUDGE
• HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS
• GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE 'RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR'
• EXCLIVE: TED LASSO CREATORS HANDLED THEIR GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE A 'REHG' AND 'SIGNIFINT' WAY, SAY LEADG LGBTQ MENTATORS AS H TV SHOW IS PRAISED FOR SHOWG 'HUMANY'
• ‘I NO LONGER WANT TO HI’: JAKUB JANKTO, CZECH TERNATNAL, OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

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

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. His early clubs knew he was gay, and he me out durg his reer, beg the first pro footballer to do so.

HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS

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.

GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE 'RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR'

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

EXCLIVE: TED LASSO CREATORS HANDLED THEIR GAY FOOTBALLER STORYLE A 'REHG' AND 'SIGNIFINT' WAY, SAY LEADG LGBTQ MENTATORS AS H TV SHOW IS PRAISED FOR SHOWG 'HUMANY'

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. 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. Dennis is a 28-year-old gay man who plays on a Wt Hollywood softball team wh his close, tty pals.

‘I NO LONGER WANT TO HI’: JAKUB JANKTO, CZECH TERNATNAL, OUT AS GAY

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. The straight-washed trailer above only hts at the gay storyle buried this film’s send half.

When Iceland’s bad-boy football star Ottar Thor out as gay, his entire life flat quicker than a punctured soccer ball. But when he’s given a choice to return to the pro-sports closet or start playg on a smaller gay lol team, Thor has to choose between a glamoro life or an thentic one.