While openly gay Liam Davis is backed by his team-mat he thks we're still "two or three years" away om a top-flight player g out.
Contents:
- HOW I ME OUT: BRA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
- IS LIAM CHARL GAY? WHO HAS THE JUNR BAKE OFF PRENTER DATED?
- ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
- SO, NOEL AND LIAM ARE GAY... (READ 5,600 TIM)
- ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
- ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
- ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
HOW I ME OUT: BRA'S ONLY OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
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Gay footballer Liam Davis adms he has been abed plenty of tim while playg for Gasborough Try, six divisns below the Premier 23-year-old semi-profsnal player (pictured above, blue) has been openly gay for four years and says the snipg the Football Conference North n be, wh one exceptn, most of the sults have been related to his height, which he tak wh a pch of salt. "Davis says the only homophobic abe he has received was "one snap ment om an opposn player" who later texted to apologise.
IS LIAM CHARL GAY? WHO HAS THE JUNR BAKE OFF PRENTER DATED?
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His matter-of-factns on the issue chim wh his cisn to talk hontly as Bra's only male openly gay semi-profsnal or profsnal story me to light the Llnshire Echoexternal-lk after former Aston Villa and Everton player Thomas Hzlsperger beme the first ex-Premier League player to reveal his the former Germany ternatnal, who waed until he retired before g out, Davis nfid players at prev clubs Selby Town and Brigg Town before tellg current team-mat durg a night out last summer. Not sce 1990, when Jt Fashanu me out and then tragilly took his own life eight years later, has there been an openly gay footballer of renown Brish media has been acced of obssively searchg for a gay profsnal ever sce, often focg on Swedish semi-profsnal player Anton Hysen, son of former Liverpool fenr me out 2011 and was followed last year by former Leeds Uned wger and Uned Stat ternatnal Robbie Rogers, who simultaneoly announced his retirement om football before later jog Major League Soccer team Los Angel Galaxy.
But when do he thk there will be an openly gay footballer playg profsnally at the hight level? "There are lots of thgs to nsir - the media, agents, tens of thoands of opposn fans - so I n unrstand why people would be worried about Davis actn for Gasborough"But lower down the leagu, I n't unrstand why there aren't more gay players, bee you are takg away those issu.
ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
"Had he been on the field when Davis was abed for beg gay, Roma says he would have sought retributn "wh the laws of the game" he was jured and says the offendg player whispered the sult so none of Davis's team-mat uld hear. "Davis is sceptil of the thori' approach to homophobia, believg they should do more to tackle the of the more high profile groups, Football v Homophobia, did not receive any fundg om the Football Associatn last year. While Davis believ football is evolvg, he thks will be "two to three" years before we see a gay player participatg at the top his news filters through the game and to the wir world, Davis is unsure how he will be treated by opposn media reactn has been unexpected but posive, he says, and he has plans to work wh equaly group Kick Out, makg time between football and wag tabl at the Pot Cafe.
More often, we're seeg shows cut out some of the more toxic trop that rce queer characters to edy relief or fall to the "bury your gays" trope that brgs the characters to a tragic end. Keegan Allen's character, Liam, don't hge on tragedy or homophobia to exist the fictnal "Walker" world. On how 's felt brgg this Texas story to morn tim by playg an accepted and loved gay character stead of the typil doom and gloom angl that plague LGBTQ+ relatnships on TV, Allen exprsed his appreciatn to take on this character.
SO, NOEL AND LIAM ARE GAY... (READ 5,600 TIM)
"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child.
ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns. "I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?
"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said. Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay.
ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay. At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone. "Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said.
"I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said.
For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease.
ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
"At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay.