Pro football player is acced of leadg a gay-bashg that left a man near ath - LGBTQ Natn

Contents:

• DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI
•  AARON HERNANZ LAWYER SLAMS NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SUGGTG SEXUALY SUICI WAS CTE GAY
• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF FOOTBALL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
• PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER IS ACCED OF LEADG A GAY-BASHG THAT LEFT A MAN NEAR ATH
• WAS AARON HERNANZ GAY? DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR FOOTBALL PLAYER'S RUMORED SEXUAL PAST
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI

Fashanu, a former Dr Barnardo's boy who was fostered at the age of five wh his olr brother John, went on to bee the first £1 ln black footballer Bra when he was signed by Nottgham Fort 1981 aged a famoly difficult relatnship wh the club's then manager, Brian Clough, and Fashanu's renowned temper soon found him out of favour wh the club and he slipped quickly and spectacular fashn om the First Divisn of English football to the backwaters of the Third his own words, Fashanu's failure to achieve the succs his talent served was due, part, to his admissn that he was gay. I was very upset when Jt turned gay.

"He had already admted he was gay.

Aaron Hernanz's attorney Jose Baez has slammed Netflix's new documentary on the late NFL player, statg that the football tight end killed himself bee he was sufferg om Chronic Trmatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and not over fears of beg outed as a homosexual as suggted by the streamg giant's latt offerg.

 AARON HERNANZ LAWYER SLAMS NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SUGGTG SEXUALY SUICI WAS CTE GAY

Baez, who reprented Hernanz and helped him beat a double murr se, a statement to TMZ said that the recently-released Netflix documentary tled 'Killer Insi: The Md of Aaron Hernanz' impli that the player was a closeted homosexual, and might have taken his life fear of the alleged secret gettg out. Baez refuted Netflix's theory of Hernanz's possible homosexualy playg a part his suici, and said that the young player's ath was triggered by advanced CTE.

The Netflix documentary, which dropped on January 15, emphasiz Hernanz's possible homosexualy and how the player was tormented about keepg unr wraps a machismo-driven reer.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF FOOTBALL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

That said, remas an unfettable fixture wh my existence as a football fan; the scene of the most brazen racist and homophobic abe I've ever heard a football memori have dimmed the s that have passed, but I n still see the perpetrator clearly: elrly, toothls, kd of ak to a live actn restg of Evil Edna om the great 1980s BBC rtoon Willo the Wisp.

Enoch Powell's vile pontifitn is greeted wh cheers; the Natnal Front march through the streets, their jaws snappg like feral dogs; the untry's Prime Mister, Margaret Thatcher, issu a veiled warng to a generatn who "thk 's acceptable to be homosexual".

PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER IS ACCED OF LEADG A GAY-BASHG THAT LEFT A MAN NEAR ATH

Rumours of Jt beg sighted on Nottgham's gay scene are fed back to Clough; nothg happens Nottgham whout Ol' Big Head beg aware of , his ltle sparrows feedg back to him. A dalliance wh the church, jt what every young gay man needs. The ntradictn of beg a gay man and a poster child for the church is raced through.

It's only five years sce he told TalkSPORT he didn't believe his brother was gay, that Jt was an "attentn seeker", that football is "a macho man's game and I don't thk any gay footballers will e out – 20 years of playg all my match I have never e across a gay footballer". The qutn "why hasn't another footballer e out as gay? Chief among them were a troubled home life, the unexpected ath of his domeerg father and, acrdg to some who knew him, prsure to nceal that he was allegedly gay.

Dennis Sansoucie, who shar that he eventually me out to his father after Hernanz’s ath, says the macho atmosphere associated wh football allowed him and Hernanz to nceal that they were homosexual.

WAS AARON HERNANZ GAY? DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR FOOTBALL PLAYER'S RUMORED SEXUAL PAST

Hernanz’s father had ma clear that he would not tolerate havg a gay son, Sansoucie says, forcg him to hi that part of himself.

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

Interviews the documentary wh Sansoucie as well as ex-Patrts offensive tackle Ryan O’Callaghan, who hid that he was gay while playg profsnal football and me out publicly 2017, unrle the ia that the sport did not offer clear avenu for players to be open and proud about beg gay. The GoFundMe of David Gomez, the victim of an alleged gay-bashgPhoto: Screenshot/CTV.