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• THE GAY FOOTBALLER: WHY FANS WANTED A UK PLAYER TO E OUT
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• NFL ACH KEV MAXEN MAK SPORTS HISTORY BY G OUT AS GAY
• IN A LLEGE FOOTBALL FIRST, HBCU PLAYER OUT AS GAY
• ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’: NFL RELEAS BIZARRE VIO AFTER PLAYER’S G OUT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

THE GAY FOOTBALLER: WHY FANS WANTED A UK PLAYER TO E OUT

Image source, Getty ImagNearly 50, 000 people were followg a Twter acunt reportedly n by a Champnship footballer planng to e out as gay - until this @FootballerGay acunt was never verified, and there were doubts over whether was genue but drew huge attentn om football fans and the Aston Villa midfielr Thomas Hzlsperger revealed he was gay after retirg om the sport - but there are no out LGBT players the top tiers of men's UK football. It's only happened once before - 1990, when Jt Fashanu me out as gay. "We still have issu regardg racial abe, let alone the homophobic abe that go on durg gam.

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"There are lbian, gay and trans people every football stadium across the untry at every game, " says Robbie De Santos, Stonewall's director of sport. "He says the lack of LGBT players on the pch at men's gam rults homophobic chants and attus on the terrac - and says that havg big stars football e out uld go some way to makg fans more tolerant. He's also cril of the "media enzy" that surround the acunt and the "unhelpful" speculatn that took place about who was behd the @FootballerGay acunt before was taken source, TwterImage ptn, The acunt was leted after ls than a month on TwterAttus football have evolved, Robbie says, and he hop the recent succs and populary of the Women's World Cup uld help show certa fans that football isn't only played by straight men.

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

"That's somethg that would make a huge difference to gay football fans like Phil, who says if the @FootballerGay acunt was a fake, would show the lengths some supporters would go "to make harr for someone to e out sport". 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. The Jacksonville Jaguars’ associate strength ach publicly me out as gay Thursday, beg the first-ever publicly out male ach major Amerin men’s pro sports. Gay men don’t jt belong on the football field.

NFL ACH KEV MAXEN MAK SPORTS HISTORY BY G OUT AS GAY

Maxen started his g out procs Febary 2022, when he got touch wh Carl Nassib, the first out gay active NFL player. A Hampton Universy football player me out publicly as gay, a first for a football player at a historilly Black llege or universy, acrdg to, an LGBTQ sports news se.

IN A LLEGE FOOTBALL FIRST, HBCU PLAYER OUT AS GAY

Byron Perks, a Divisn I fensive back for the Hampton Universy Pirat, me out as gay an Instagram story shared Wednday.

I’m gay, let be known that this is not a ‘cisn’ or a ‘choice.

’ Y, this is who I am, this is who I’ve been, and this is who I’m gog to be, ” Perks wrote the story, acrdg to (Instagram stori are only available for 24 hours, so Perks’ origal story is no longer viewable) several Divisn I football players have e out as gay durg their llege reers — cludg the College of Idaho’s Cy Hicks, Amherst College’s Avery Saffold and Kansas State’s Stt Frantz — Perks is the first to do so at one of the untry’s 101 HBCUs, acrdg to both Outsports and Perks. Perks told Outsports that he’d like to help other gay Black men who are stgglg wh their sexualy. “There hasn’t been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU.

‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’: NFL RELEAS BIZARRE VIO AFTER PLAYER’S G OUT

“I’m sure the young man has heard his fair share of slurs om teammat unaware that he is gay.

Cyd Zeigler, the -founr of Outsports, noted that “so many ‘first’ gay athlet — John Amaechi, Jason Colls, Michael Sam — have been Black men. Multiple female ach the NFL — cludg 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, who beme the league’s first openly gay ach 2017 — have e out recent years. The Natnal Football League has clared “football is gay” and “transgenr” a new ad.

A vio released by the NFL on Monday featur simple whe text on a black background, clarg among other thgs that “football is gay, ” “football is lbian, ” “football is queer, ” and “football is transgenr.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN FIRST MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Speakg to Outsports, an NFL spokperson said that the ad was released as a direct rponse to Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib g out as gay last week.

Nassib is the first active NFL player to e out, though some of his fellow stars told the media that gay men often play the league but keep their homosexualy unr ad ed a stir onle, as some menters wonred how the NFL settled on “football is gay” as a tchphrase, and others rolled their ey at the spread of LGBT msagg to yet another facet of Amerin life. Football is gay" Liz Franczak (@liz_anczak) June 28, 2021This vio jt feels like an exec shovelg a spoonful of random, foc-group vetted words down someone's throats while screamg "IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St Louis Rams selected him 2021, Carl Nassib, then wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player to e out publicly. JACKSONVILLE Jaguars ach Kev Maxen has ma history as the first male ach a major US profsnal league to e out as gay. 4Jaguars ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay a historic move for profsnal men's sports the USCred: Instagram / Kev Maxen.

Maxen will be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of Amerin men's profsnal sports. I'm thrilled that you are willg to prove that, y, there are gay athlet.

Michael Sam was the first openly gay player to be drafted when he was selected by the then-St.

JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990

Maxen jos former San Francis 49ers assistant ach Katie Sowers as the only two NFL ach to publicly e out as gay.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. As the World Cup go on a untry where homosexualy is illegal, many global football fans are havg to reckon wh the sports' 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.

HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS

Gay players face prsure om teammat, ownership, ach, and fans over their are some of the men who have e out, fightg those stereotyp, and pavg the way for LGBTQ+ athlet who e after them. Atralian striker Andy Brennan me out as gay 2019, beg the first out gay Atralian male footballer.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

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.

In 2014, he beme Bra's hight-profile out, gay player, and was the first out, gay male player to play at Wembley.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

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.

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. The Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has end s of silence wh men’s football to bee the first player the UK to e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu 1990.

Photograph: Pl Dennis/TGS Photo/ShutterstockDaniels’s revelatn is a strikg landmark that when men’s football is more engaged wh social issu than any recent time, but still unable to ce progrs LGBTQ reprentatn wh the year Alai Uned’s Josh Cavallo beme the only male top-flight profsnal footballer the world to e out as gay, but others are yet to follow. In six months the men’s World Cup will be played Qatar, where homosexualy is illegal, and Cavallo revealed to the Guardian he would be “sred” to play at the tournament, the pnacle of world English football specifilly, the shadow of the talented and unfulfilled Fashanu still lgers over the game.