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• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER OUT AS GAY
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER, 17, OUT, BEG ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER BRA
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• NFL: CARL NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• BLACKPOOL STRIKER JAKE DANIELS SAYS HE HAS FOUND HIS 'SOULMATE' AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY LAST YEAR
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FORWARD BE UK'S FIRST ACTIVE MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER TO E OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

"Blackpool forward Jake Daniels speaks exclively on beg the UK's first male profsnal footballer to e out publicly as gay sce Jt talks about g out to his parents, his club, and his team-mat. I n't really put a date on , but I was probably five or six years old when I knew I was gay.

Zanr Murray signs for Bonnyrigg Rose to bee only openly gay player SPFL. Jake Daniels: England's only openly gay active footballer reveals Tom Daley spired him to e out.

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JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER OUT AS GAY

In school people even ed to ask me: "Are you sure you aren't gay? It's been subject of beg gay, or bi or queer men's football is still a taboo. And people see beg gay as beg weak, somethg you n be picked on for on the football field.

Of urse I am aware that there will be a reactn to this and some of will be homophobic, maybe a stadium and on social 's an easy thg for people to target. Football v Homophobia: "Football v Homophobia would like to ngratulate Jake on takg this step to share his thentic self the men's profsnal game, pecially at such a young age. "There have prevly been players who felt that they had no place the game as out gay men durg their playg reers, but Jake is showg the world that you n be yourself.

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

To e out publicly as the first openly gay player men's profsnal football the UK the last 30 years tak urage.

Media ptn, WATCH: 'I am ready to be myself' - Jake DanielsJake Daniels is the first profsnal footballer the UK men's game for more than 30 years to e out as gay while still playg.

"I've known my whole life that I'm gay, and I now feel that I'm ready to e out and be myself.

JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER, 17, OUT, BEG ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE PROFSNAL FOOTBALLER BRA

"Before Jake, Josh Cavallo - who plays for Alai Uned Atralia - was the only openly gay top-flight male profsnal footballer the world, havg e out last do 'g out' mean? Comg out of the closet, often shortened to g out, is when a person shar wh others that they are lbian, gay, bi and/or trans (LGBT) out is different for everyone and n take some time to get to a pot where someone feels fortable and nfint enough to tell other is this important? Only four male profsnal football players who have played the UK have shared that they were gay - Thomas Beattie, Jt Fashanu, Thomas Hzlsperger and Robbie Jake Daniels, only Jt Fashanu revealed he was gay whilst he was still playg football 1990.

The other three shared that they were gay after retirg om after g out Jt Fashanu suffered om homophobic bullyg and harassment before he died do LGBTQ+ stand for? LGBTQ+ stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer.

The + is an clive symbol to mean 'and others' to clu people of all ptn, WATCH: Gay footballers talk about their experienc the game (June 2020)Thomas Beattie, who was a former youth player for English club Hull Cy, said that he felt that he uldn't announce that he was gay while still playg: "I lerally felt like I had to sacrifice one of the two: who I am, or the sport I loved, " he there are now chari and anisatns that mpaign to make football more clive and a safe place for the LGBTQ+ muny. "To e out publicly as the first openly gay player men's profsnal football the UK the last 30 years tak urage. "'I want to be a role mol'Media ptn, What is homophobia?

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

Speakg about how g out will change his life Daniels said: "Of urse I am aware that there will be a reactn to this and some of will be homophobic, maybe a stadium and on social media. 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”. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

NFL: CARL NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE PLAYER 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. Former Aston Villa and Wt Ham player Thomas Hzlsperger me out after he fished playg EnglandThree players are ntact wh the Football Associatn about g out as gay, acrdg to MP John ma the ments durg a Department of Culture, Media and Sport hearg to homophobia BBC unrstands the FA disput the MP's ments - though says would support any players who chose October, FA chairman Greg Clarke told MPs that Premier League players would suffer "signifint abe" if they chose to reveal they are gay. "In rponse, Nilson said that Clarke had been ved back to prent an actn plan to MPs, bee was "not good enough" to say an openly gay player would suffer abe.

"Jt Fashanu beme the first player England to e out as gay 1990, but took his own life aged 37 1998.

BLACKPOOL STRIKER JAKE DANIELS SAYS HE HAS FOUND HIS 'SOULMATE' AFTER PUBLICLY G OUT AS GAY LAST YEAR

No male profsnal player has e out while playg England Germany and Aston Villa player Thomas Hzlsperger beme the first player wh Premier League experience to publicly reveal his homosexualy, January 2014, after he had fished playg England women's pta Casey Stoney was the first active footballer to e out England sce Fashanu, Febary October, a BBC Rad 5 live study found that 82% of football supporters would have no issue wh their club signg a gay player.

Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib has bee the first active NFL player to e out as gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

"Jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay.

"No openly gay player has played a regular-season game the NFL. Defensive end Michael Sam me out as gay before he was drafted by the St Louis Rams 2014 and played for them the pre-season, but did not make their fal roster.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

Former LA Galaxy and USA footballer Robbie Rogers beme the first openly gay man to play one of the USA's big five sports leagu when he me out Febary is about to enter his sixth season the NFL, havg been a third-round draft pick by the Cleveland Browns then had a two-year spell wh the Tampa Bay Bucneers before signg a three-year al wh the Rairs March may also be terted out at 90 years old... To my gay dghterGet entangled wh Spooks: The explosive MI5 seri is streamg nowThe very bt of Top Gear: Relive Paddy, Freddie and Chris' wilst adventur.

Blackpool striker Jake Daniels reveals he has found his ‘soulmate’ after last year beg the UK’s first male profsnal footballer to publicly e out as gay sce Jt Fashanu. Blackpool's Jake Daniels me out as gay last year (Image: Alamy)“There was one day, I was about to get on a tra and I went on my msage requts jt to have a ganr and the top msage was om my [now] partner, jt ngratulatg me. The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U.

While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.