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Contents:

• DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN
• BECKHAM: THE MAN WHO BROKE FOOTBALL’S GAY TABOO?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS WORLD CUP SHOULDN’T BE GOG TO QATAR, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• CZECH FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO BE FIRST ACTIVE TERNATNAL MEN’S PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
• A GAY N.F.L. PLAYER BROKE A BARRIER. WILL OTHER L.G.B.T.Q. ATHLET FOLLOW?
• WATCH: ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’: NFL RELEAS PRO-LGBT AD

DAVID BECKHAM’S ‘STAT AS A GAY IN WILL BE SHREDD’ IF HE NTU AS QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS BRISH EDIAN

David Beckham’s “stat as a gay in will be shredd” if the former England pta and Manchter Uned star ntu his role as a Qatar World Cup ambassador said Brish edian Joe Lycett on Sunday.

BECKHAM: THE MAN WHO BROKE FOOTBALL’S GAY TABOO?

In a vio posted on Twter, Lycett, a Brish edian who scrib himself as queer on his webse, said he would donate £10, 000 ($11, 000) to chari supportg “queer people football” or put the money through the shredr along wh “Beckham’s reputatn as a gay in” if the former footballer did not cut ti wh Qatar. “Homosexualy is illegal, punishable by imprisonment and, if you’re Mlim, possibly even ath, ” said Lycett an Instagram post.

World's only openly gay active pro footballer is ncerned for LGBTQ muny ahead of Qatar 2022. “You’re the first Premiership footballer to do shoots wh gay magaz like Attu, to speak openly about your gay fans, ” Lycett said. Unr Qatari law, homosexualy is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.

Alai Uned player Josh Cavallo, who me out as gay last year, told CNN Sport he would like to see Beckham g his platform to support the LGBTQ muny stead of promotg the Qatari ernment. Beckham 'opened the door' for to be ol to be gay.

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

David Beckham was always apt at curlg the ball around a wall – but when me to the barrier of homosexualy football, he broke straight through .

Former England pta Beckham, who announced his retirement om football Thursday, was the first superstar footballer to embrace his “gay in” stat, eely givg terviews to gay magaz and openly talkg about his gay fan base. “What David Beckham did was break the long silence about homosexualy football, ” Newkey-Burn told CNN.

“He openly urted his gay fan base, sayg he loved beg a gay in and was happy for his wife to broadst that around.

GAY ATRALIAN FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO SAYS WORLD CUP SHOULDN’T BE GOG TO QATAR, WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS ILLEGAL

“He was the first to give terviews to gay magaz – before that, no footballer would have done that. In an terview wh the BBC given 2007, Beckham spoke of his pri at beg tagged as a “gay in”.

Once Newkey-Burn spent five months tryg to anize an terview wh the midfielr, only for the player himself to sanctn the piece after readg one of the journalist’s articl on football and homosexualy Four Four Two magaze. “David read the piece I did about how far football had e alg wh homophobia, ” Newkey-Burn relled.

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

“Look, there are 92 league clubs England wh each squad havg around 20 players, so statistilly, there mt be some gay players, ” add the journalist.

“Beckham said to the world: ‘I’m straight, I’m the England pta and I thk ’s ol people are gay.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

Dpe Beckham embracg his “gay in” stat, football ntu to stggle wh homophobia.

Football star Robbie Rogers announced he was retirg om football after “g out” – leavg Swedish player Anton Hysen as the only openly gay player Europe. Read: In search of a gay soccer hero. “Gay football fans don’t want 11 neatly iffured and manicured players to admire, ” said the journalist and celebry bgrapher who has wrten books about Ale, Brangela, Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton.

CZECH FOOTBALLER JAKUB JANKTO BE FIRST ACTIVE TERNATNAL MEN’S PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY

“But Beckham was someone who was proud to be a gay in and ma ol too. Read: The gay footballer who chose eedom.

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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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. It has been almost a year sce Josh Cavallo announced he is gay, but even now he still stggl to prehend the far-reachg impact his announcement has had – pecially as he has begun to speak out on major issu, notably the Qatar World Cup.

JOSH CAVALLO: ONLY OPENLY GAY TOP-FLIGHT MALE FOOTBALLER SAYS FIFA’S ‘ONELOVE’ ARMBAND BAN HAS MA HIM FEEL ‘EXCLUD’

A year on, Cavallo remas the only openly gay top-flight male footballer the world – he plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A League – but his cisn spired Jake Daniels, a forward for English send divisn club Blackpool, to e out May of this year. “It was jt the uncertaty, seeg that there was no active gay footballer that’s e out before and there was no plan wh , ” he rells. Fashanu beme the first openly gay profsnal footballer after g out 1990 while playg the English top flight, but the backlash he suffered eventually led him to take his own life eight years later.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

“It is so great to be gay. Earlier this month, former Spa ternatnals Iker Casillas and Carl Puyol were wily cricized after the former posted a tweet claimg he was gay. In a now leted post on his official Twter acunt, Casillas wrote: “I hope I’ll be rpected: I’m gay.

Cavallo says the exchange between Casillas and Puyol prov football still has “got a long way to go” to eradite homophobia, even if the sport has recently ma steps the right directn. 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. The England ternatnal me out at the end of his reer and was to take his own life eight years later, Fashanu, Jt’s niece, who ns a charable foundatn his name, said that Daniels’s cisn would “e as a huge fort to the many footballers at all levels of the game still secretly livg as gay and who still feel unable to e out”.

NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

Football, like any other game, also has many gay players.

A GAY N.F.L. PLAYER BROKE A BARRIER. WILL OTHER L.G.B.T.Q. ATHLET FOLLOW?

But tak guts to e out and reveal one’s genr as gay, which is ually an act of urage a world that is not ndned to accept every genr. This listicle will mentn eight male football players who dared to e out as gay.

Seventeen male footballers have urageoly revealed their sexualy as gay public so far.

WATCH: ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’: NFL RELEAS PRO-LGBT AD

Even though has already been three s sce Jt Fashanu first publicly me out as gay, there are only a few of them revealg . The primary reason behd many gay footballers not revealg their sexualy publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pch. So, many profsnal leagu, teams, and players are raisg their voic to fight back agast homophobia so that gay footballers don’t face backlash while g out.