Channel 4 documentary unlocks secrets of gay sna showg 'glory hol', sex swgs and rooms for anonymo enunters - Mirror Onle

Contents:

• CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY UNLOCKS SECRETS OF GAY SNA SHOWG 'GLORY HOL', SEX SWGS AND ROOMS FOR ANONYMO ENUNTERS
• FOOTBALL’S COMG OUT DOCUMENTARY OFFERS DISTURBG SIGHT TO WHY ‘GAY MEN JT DON’T FEEL FORTABLE’
• CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE ROADMAP TO COMG OUT PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLCREATIVEADD TO COLLECTIONSHARE 0PRODUCED BY BULLN PRODUCTNS, 'FOOTBALL'S COMG OUT' FEATUR STARS CLUDG PATRICK BAMFORD, IAN HOLLOWAY AND MATT MORTONROADMAP TO G OUT AS GAY OR BISEXUAL PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALL EXPLORED NEW DIGAL DOCUMENTARY FOOTBALL’S COMG OUT WILL PREMIERE ON ALL 4 AND CHANNEL 4’S YOUTUBE ACUNT LATER JANUARYIN A BRAND-NEW DIGAL DOCUMENTARY, CHANNEL 4 ASKS WHY, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR SPORT, THERE ARE STILL SUCH BARRIERS TO TOP FOOTBALLERS BEG OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL. FOOTBALL’S COMG OUT VTIGAT THE CHALLENG THAT A PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALL PLAYER MIGHT EXPERIENCE IF THEY CHOSE TO PUBLICLY E OUT.PRODUCED BY BULLN PRODUCTNS, THIS 1X60’ TAILED DOCUMENTARY WILL NOT ONLY EXPLORE WHAT THE ROADMAP TO G OUT MIGHT LOOK LIKE, BUT HOW FELLOW PLAYERS, FANS, PRS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND FANCIAL DONORS MIGHT REACT TO THE NEWS, THE PRSUR THEY MIGHT FACE, ALL WHILST REVIEWG WHAT HAS PREVLY HAPPENED THROUGH HISTORIL SE STUDI AND ARCHIVE FOOTAGE.ACROSS THE SERI, VIEWERS WILL HEAR OM AN ARRAY OF PROLIFIC VOIC OM THE WORLD OF FOOTBALL AS THEY DISCS WHAT THE EXPERIENCE FOR AN LGBTQ+ PLAYER MIGHT LOOK LIKE. TALKG HEADS CLU LEEDS UNED STRIKER, PATRICK BAMFORD; FORMER PREMIER LEAGUE MANAGER IAN HOLLOWAY; BRA’S HIGHT-RANKED OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER FOR THETFORD F.C., MATT MORTON; EX-PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER, JOLEON LTT; AMAL FASHANU, NIECE OF JT FASHANU AND FOUNR OF THE JT FASHANU FOUNDATN; LEE CLAYTON, HEAD OF TALKSPORT; FOOTBALL AGENT GEIE HODGE AND JON SMH, SUPER-AGENT AND AGENT TO MARADONA, AMONGST MANY OTHERS.THOMAS PULLEN, DIGAL MISSNER SAID: “THIS IMPORTANT AND PELLG DOCUMENTARY HAS BEEN OVER A YEAR THE MAKG AND ’S GREAT THAT WE ARE FALLY ABLE TO BRG TO OUR DIENC ON ALL 4 AND CHANNEL 4’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL. IN THE DOC, WE HAVE SPOKEN TO A SERI OF CREDIBLY BOLD FIGUR OM THE FOOTBALL DTRY WHO HAVE ALL BEEN OPEN AND WILLG TO NTRIBUTE TO THIS MUCH NEED AND CCIAL NVERSATN ON LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SPORTS THE WORLD. I SCERELY HOPE THAT THIS DOCUMENTARY N BE A SPRGBOARD FOR MORE NVERSATN AROUND A SUBJECT THAT IS STILL EMED TABOO BY MANY AND BY WATCHG THIS DOCUMENTARY, LGBTQ+ PLAYERS CURRENT AND FUTURE N FEEL ENURAGED TO BE THEIR MOST THENTIC SELV THE SPORT THEY LOVE." FOOTBALL’S COMG OUT IS NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON ALL 4 AND CHANNEL 4’S YOUTUBE.VIOFOOTBALL'S COMG OUT TRAILERCREDITS
• PATRICK BAMFORD SAYS 'NOTHG SHOULD CHANGE' IF A PLAYER OUT AS GAY
• CHANNEL 4 LED THE GAY REVOLUTN TV
• EX-ENGLAND AND PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER ULD E OUT AS GAY NEW TV DOCUMENTARY
• C4 OUT WH GAY ANIMAL DOCUMENTARY
• EX-ENGLAND AND PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER ULD E OUT AS GAY NEW TV DOCUMENTARY
• SECRETS OF THE SNA: CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY TAK VIEWERS SI A GAY SNA TO REVEAL WHAT REALLY GO ON

CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY UNLOCKS SECRETS OF GAY SNA SHOWG 'GLORY HOL', SEX SWGS AND ROOMS FOR ANONYMO ENUNTERS

Channel 4 documentary unlocks secrets of gay sna showg 'glory hol', sex swgs and rooms for anonymo enuntersFor the first time an eye-openg Channel 4 documentary is ready to lift the lid on the secret world of gay snasVio LoadgVio UnavailableThe Gay Sna Secrets Of The Sna on Channel 4 A new Channel 4 documentary is set to unlock the secrets of a gay sna for the first time. Takg a look the upper level of Nottgham's popular CS2 - which has been open for jt over four years and is equented by dozens of gay and bi-cur men every week - the programme has been given exclive accs to the sna.

However 's the upstairs of the buildg which is 'unique to a gay sna'. And to be able to do durg the documentary felt like a real opportuny to say very publicly 'We’re married, we’re happy, we’re gay, we’re proud. There will be mentary om Leeds Uned striker Patrick Bamford, former Premier League manager Ian Holloway, and Bra’s hight-ranked openly gay footballer for Thetford F.

FOOTBALL’S COMG OUT DOCUMENTARY OFFERS DISTURBG SIGHT TO WHY ‘GAY MEN JT DON’T FEEL FORTABLE’

Talkg heads clu Leeds Uned striker, Patrick Bamford; former Premier League manager Ian Holloway; Bra’s hight ranked openly gay footballer for Thetford F.

The programme will clu a variety of high-profile stars cludg Leeds Uned striker Patrick Bamford; former Premier League manager Ian Holloway; and Matt Morton, Bra’s hight-ranked openly gay footballer for Thetford FC. “If you said you had somebody say they don’t believe somebody is gay at ele level, I’d love a nversatn bee I’d thk they were sane.

There are 100 per cent gay men ele football this untry, whout a shadow of a doubt.

CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE ROADMAP TO COMG OUT PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLCREATIVEADD TO COLLECTIONSHARE 0PRODUCED BY BULLN PRODUCTNS, 'FOOTBALL'S COMG OUT' FEATUR STARS CLUDG PATRICK BAMFORD, IAN HOLLOWAY AND MATT MORTONROADMAP TO G OUT AS GAY OR BISEXUAL PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALL EXPLORED NEW DIGAL DOCUMENTARY FOOTBALL’S COMG OUT WILL PREMIERE ON ALL 4 AND CHANNEL 4’S YOUTUBE ACUNT LATER JANUARYIN A BRAND-NEW DIGAL DOCUMENTARY, CHANNEL 4 ASKS WHY, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR SPORT, THERE ARE STILL SUCH BARRIERS TO TOP FOOTBALLERS BEG OPENLY GAY OR BISEXUAL. FOOTBALL’S COMG OUT VTIGAT THE CHALLENG THAT A PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALL PLAYER MIGHT EXPERIENCE IF THEY CHOSE TO PUBLICLY E OUT.PRODUCED BY BULLN PRODUCTNS, THIS 1X60’ TAILED DOCUMENTARY WILL NOT ONLY EXPLORE WHAT THE ROADMAP TO G OUT MIGHT LOOK LIKE, BUT HOW FELLOW PLAYERS, FANS, PRS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND FANCIAL DONORS MIGHT REACT TO THE NEWS, THE PRSUR THEY MIGHT FACE, ALL WHILST REVIEWG WHAT HAS PREVLY HAPPENED THROUGH HISTORIL SE STUDI AND ARCHIVE FOOTAGE.ACROSS THE SERI, VIEWERS WILL HEAR OM AN ARRAY OF PROLIFIC VOIC OM THE WORLD OF FOOTBALL AS THEY DISCS WHAT THE EXPERIENCE FOR AN LGBTQ+ PLAYER MIGHT LOOK LIKE. TALKG HEADS CLU LEEDS UNED STRIKER, PATRICK BAMFORD; FORMER PREMIER LEAGUE MANAGER IAN HOLLOWAY; BRA’S HIGHT-RANKED OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER FOR THETFORD F.C., MATT MORTON; EX-PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER, JOLEON LTT; AMAL FASHANU, NIECE OF JT FASHANU AND FOUNR OF THE JT FASHANU FOUNDATN; LEE CLAYTON, HEAD OF TALKSPORT; FOOTBALL AGENT GEIE HODGE AND JON SMH, SUPER-AGENT AND AGENT TO MARADONA, AMONGST MANY OTHERS.THOMAS PULLEN, DIGAL MISSNER SAID: “THIS IMPORTANT AND PELLG DOCUMENTARY HAS BEEN OVER A YEAR THE MAKG AND ’S GREAT THAT WE ARE FALLY ABLE TO BRG TO OUR DIENC ON ALL 4 AND CHANNEL 4’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL. IN THE DOC, WE HAVE SPOKEN TO A SERI OF CREDIBLY BOLD FIGUR OM THE FOOTBALL DTRY WHO HAVE ALL BEEN OPEN AND WILLG TO NTRIBUTE TO THIS MUCH NEED AND CCIAL NVERSATN ON LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SPORTS THE WORLD. I SCERELY HOPE THAT THIS DOCUMENTARY N BE A SPRGBOARD FOR MORE NVERSATN AROUND A SUBJECT THAT IS STILL EMED TABOO BY MANY AND BY WATCHG THIS DOCUMENTARY, LGBTQ+ PLAYERS CURRENT AND FUTURE N FEEL ENURAGED TO BE THEIR MOST THENTIC SELV THE SPORT THEY LOVE." FOOTBALL’S COMG OUT IS NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON ALL 4 AND CHANNEL 4’S YOUTUBE.VIOFOOTBALL'S COMG OUT TRAILERCREDITS

I was fortunate enough to be shown an advanced screeng and ’s well worth watchg if you fd hard to fathom why there are still no openly gay profsnal footballers. There have been aggrsive attempts to out players, an FA chairman sayg he is ashamed gay players do not feel fortable g out then later scribg as a “life choice”. But there have also been other bat and discsns, and perhaps the hard homophobic shell of football is slowly crackg.

In 2017, Ryan Atk beme the first Football League referee to e out as gay.

Last October, Atralian Josh Cavallo beme the first openly gay profsnal male footballer the world. “I’d image if a player me out as gay, they’d probably go to the pta and nfi the pta, ” he says. ”Related StoriBamford theoris that if a team-mate me out and received homophobic abe om fans durg a game, players would “jt show that you’re together.

PATRICK BAMFORD SAYS 'NOTHG SHOULD CHANGE' IF A PLAYER OUT AS GAY

Whether they’re beg racist or homophobic, show exactly the same support, e together as a team, stand together as a un, and show you’ve got that player’s back. “Growg up there were a lot more gay jok and was viewed a more negative light, ” Ltt says. “I thk the perceptn of gay mal has changed.

The acceptance has removed some of the fear and actually ’s flipped on s head and the mory are the racists, are the homophob, are the sexists. Football's Comg Out, set to be released on Tuday January 25, is a brand-new digal documentary which will ask why barriers to g out still exist one of the world's most popular a one-off sixty mute programme, the productn will look to the challeng facg a Premier League footballer should they choose to e out publicly as Jt Fashanu me out as gay October 1990, no openly gay footballers have played the top flight of English year Josh Cavallo, who plays for Atralian top-flight team Alai Uned me out as gay, hopg that he uld enurage those who intify as LGBTQ+ to feel wele the football muny. Former Leeds Uned player Robbie Rogers is one of jt a handful of profsnal players who have played the UK to have publicly shared their homosexualy - there are currently no openly gay players any of England's top four leagu.

Jog him is former top-flight centre-back Joleon Ltt, ex-Premier League manager Ian Holloway, Amal Fashanu - niece of Jt Fashanu and founr of the Jt Fashanu Foundatn, openly gay Thetford FC footballer Matt Morton, among many others.

CHANNEL 4 LED THE GAY REVOLUTN TV

Jt Fashanu beme the first profsnal footballer to e out as gay 1990. Roadmap to g out as gay or bisexual Premier League Football explored new digal documentary Football’s Comg Out will premiere on All 4 and Channel 4’s YouTube acunt later JanuaryIn a brand-new digal documentary, Channel 4 asks why, one of the world’s most popular sport, there are still such barriers to top footballers beg openly gay or bisexual. Talkg heads clu Leeds Uned striker, Patrick Bamford; former Premier League manager Ian Holloway; Bra’s hight-ranked openly gay footballer for Thetford F.

Former QPR, Leicter and Crystal Palace manager Ian Holloway thks football remas homophobic but says he would actively enurage gay players to be their "thentic self"Ian Holloway has told a new Channel 4 documentary he believ football is former QPR, Leicter and Crystal Palace boss said he would actively enurage gay players to e 58-year-old, who was most recently charge at Grimsby Town, was speakg to Channel 4's 'Football's Comg Out', released on Tuday. "Beg btally hont, I do believe football is homophobic, " he said. "'They jt don't feel fortable yet to be themselv'There are no openly gay players the Premier League or Football League England, while Alai Uned's Josh Cavallo is the only openly gay male player any profsnal top-flight divisn.

Earlier this season, there was alleged homophobic chantg aimed at Chelsea loanee players Billy Gilmour and Conor Gallagher and there was an alleged cint at Chelsea's Carabao Cup semi-fal agast Tottenham earlier this Premier League has partnered wh Stonewall's Rabow Lac mpaignexternal-lk which is aimed at enuragg more acceptance of LGBT+ diversy. Meanwhile, Football v Homophobiaexternal-lk is an iative that challeng homophobia at all levels of football - om grassroots to profsnal Morton, a player-manager for Eastern Counti League Premier Divisn si Thetford Town, is the hight-ranked openly gay player said he was "100%" sure there are "gay men ele football this untry", addg: "They jt don't feel fortable yet to be themselv. The mory are the racists, are the homophob and the sexists.

EX-ENGLAND AND PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER ULD E OUT AS GAY NEW TV DOCUMENTARY

Patrick Bamford says 'NOTHING should change' if a player out as wand sists Leeds drsg room WOULD support anyone who went public wh their sexualy as the striker speaks out new documentaryChannel 4 are releasg a new documentary entled 'Football's Comg Out'Patrick Bamford, Ian Holloway and Joleon Ltt are among the doc's speakers Leeds' Bamford believ the drsg room would support an openly-gay player Holloway add that he would 'get rid' if a player reacted negatively to the news Updated: 01:12 BST, 25 January 2022. Leeds Uned striker Patrick Bamford believ an openly gay Premier League player would be embraced the drsg room - but says there is still work to do eraditg homophobic abe om the crowd.

Bamford, 28, spoke Channel 4's 'Football's Comg Out' documentary, released on Tuday, which he said that 'nothg should change' a drsg room if a team-mate cid to e out as prent there remas no openly gay players active the Premier League.

Leeds Uned footballer Patrick Bamford has spoken a new documentary for Channel 4 Bamford believ Leeds' drsg room would be totally supportive if a player me out as gaySharg his thoughts on how a player might go about the procs of g out as LGBTQ+ and how he and fellow players his team might react, Bamford said: 'I would image that if someone were to e out as gay, a player would go to the pta and nfi the pta.

C4 OUT WH GAY ANIMAL DOCUMENTARY

' Earlier this month Daniel Hutchgs, an analyst at League Two si Stevenage, me out but there are no openly gay players the Premier League or the Football League, and the only openly gay player any top-flight divisn the world is Alai Uned's Josh Cavallo. Cavallo recently took to his Instagram page to nmn homophobic crowd abe he received durg an A-League match agast Melbourne Victory earlier this month. Bamford nced that any player the upper echelons of English football that is nsirg g out as gay will likely worry most about reactn om fans, rather than team-mat or ach.

Daniel Hutchgs, a first-team analyst at League Two club Stevenage, has spoken about the difficulti of beg openly gay and workg profsnal football In a Twter post, Hutchgs me out as gay and then spoke about the lack of progrs on the issue wh the game wh barely any footballers havg the urage to reveal they are gayThe Leeds striker add: 'If they are a footballer playg at a stadium, that's probably what they are most worried about. ' Matt Morton, player-manager for Eastern Counti League Premier Divisn si Thetford Town and who speaks the upg documentary, is the hight-ranked openly gay player England.

EX-ENGLAND AND PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALLER ULD E OUT AS GAY NEW TV DOCUMENTARY

'There are 100 per cent gay men ele football this untry, ' Morton said. ' Former Premier League manager Ian Holloway, pictured the documentary, said he would 'get rid' of any player that reacted negatively to a team-mate g out as gay Openly gay footballer Josh Cavallo lled out homophobic abe that was directed at him Cavallo took to Instagram and lled out crowd abe after a draw wh Melbourne VictoryFormer Manchter Cy, Everton and England fenr Joleon Ltt speaks out the documentary, as do ex-Premier League manager Ian Holloway, who feels football remas homophobic.

SECRETS OF THE SNA: CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY TAK VIEWERS SI A GAY SNA TO REVEAL WHAT REALLY GO ON

Ltt feels the perceptn towards gay players 'has changed' and he says the drsg room would be the most supportive place should a player elect to e out as gay. Owen Jon’s celebratn markg 20 years sce the excellent seri Queer as Folk was first televised (Journal, 28 Febary) suggts that was this groundbreakg programme that transformed gay reprentatn on Brish fact, the radil change happened the 1980s on Channel 4. And this year is the 30th anniversary of C4’s Out on Tuday (later OUT), the world’s first worked televisn seri aimed at a lbian and gay dience.

It ran between 1989 and 1994 and was the culmatn of work done by a lot of lbians and gay men – mpaigners, journalists, dividuals and a very small number of workg televisn – for more posive and more regular reprentatn of on journey towards airg the programm was a bumpy ri – volvg qutns parliament, a mpaign by anti-permissive-society activist Mary Whehoe and tabloid newspaper hysteria – and all unfold as part of the rponse of the gay and lbian muny to the Aids crisis and the dranian sectn 28 anti-gay groundbreakg productns that changed broadstg culture happened across more than a om C4’s ceptn 1982. From One Five 1983 through My Betiful Lndrette, In the Pk and Out on Tuday to Dyke TV 1994, our screens were opened up to gay stori.

The rpons of the lns of lbians and gay men who watched the programm were much like Owen’s “joyful revelatn” impact broadstg was felt at the BBC, which started to missn s own gay and lbian seri, and the groundwork was laid for all the wonrful dramas and documentari that followed later years, cludg Queer as Folk. None of the would have happened whout the 1980s gay revolutn TV. AN ex-England and Premier League footballer uld e out a TV documentary about gay footballers.