Gay footballer
Jake Williamson: 'I played football for 21 years and never met anyone that was openly gay'
After being shunned by his Sunday League football team after coming out as gay, Jake Williamson is hoping to alter the stigma of gay male athletes from the grassroots
Jake Williamson heard the word a million times. The other words too.
Sometimes, he used them, even though doing so meant burying his true self further below the surface. Homophobia was part of the vocabulary of football. Of male sport. And he wanted to belong in that world.
“It’s such an easy develop of degrading someone, to be favor ‘oh that’s so gay’,” says the former semi-professional footballer turned Hyrox fitness athlete and Diverse activist. “It was part of people’s vocabulary. I don’t think everyone was using it in a derogatory way. Some people, yes, but that was the language used within those environments. And once you surround yourself with that vocabulary, it becomes normal.”
Premier League's first openly same-sex attracted footballer weighs in on LGBT controversy after several stars refused to wear rainbow clothing
Thomas Hitzlsperger, the Premier League's first openly gay player, has mutual his thoughts on the LGBT pride saga which is engulfing the uppermost flight after several footballers protested against wearing rainbow armbands and jackets.
The German moved to the Aston Villa youth team in aged 19 and played times for the west Midlands outfit, scoring 12 goals in a productive spell at the club.
The midfielder then enjoyed a five-year stint at Stuttgart before returning to England for short spells at West Ham and Everton, where he retired in After he called time on a fine career, Hitzlsperger came out as homosexual making him the most high-profile footballer to act so.
In the last week, various refusals to wear items of rainbow clothing have caused chaos in the Premier League with Ipswich captain Sam Morsy deciding not to sport an armband with that pattern, before Crystal Palace skipper Marc Guehi wrote messages on his.
On Wednesday, devout Muslim Noussair Mazraoui decl
Ex-Man Utd star P Evra played with 'at least two queer players at every club'
Patrice Evra has claimed he played alongside at least two gay players at every team throughout his career in football and has lifted the lid on some of the shocking attitudes of his team-mates towards homosexuality.
In an interview with French publication Le Parisien to coincide with the release of his autobiography, Evra made some stunning revelations about some of the views he encountered.
'When I was in England, they brought someone to converse to the team about homosexuality,' Evra explained. 'Some of my colleagues said "it is against my religion, if there is a homosexual in this locker room, let him leave the club" and other comments.
'At that time, I said, "shut up". I played with players who were gay. Face to encounter, they opened up with me because they are afraid to speak otherwise.
'There are at least two players per club who are gay. But in the world of football, if you say so, it's over.'
Evra didn't clarify which English club he was
Bonnie Blue reveals ‘gay’ Liverpool star asked her to arrange 22 men for his own hook-up
Bonnie Blue, a UK-born adult content creator now based in Australia, set the internet ablaze with a jaw-dropping confession: she hooked up with 22 men in a single hour session.
In an appearance on the One Night with Steiny podcast, Bonnie shared that a Liverpool player later slid into her DMs.
But here’s the twist: he wasn’t just curious. According to Bonnie, he was “jealous” and asked her to replicate the encounter, not for her, but for himself.
When asked if she had been committed with any celebrities, Bonnie initially shrugged it off, saying, “Not really… but I did have a footballer [who plays for] Liverpool.”
She mentioned that he messaged her, expressing jealousy over her man night, and asked her to organize the same trial for him.
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