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- Former NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan shares memoir of closeted football life and the toll it took
- Footballs Coming Out- Life as a Gay Fan and Player book by Neil Beasley
Cities are bidding for this. Honolulu, in fact, recently beat out bids from Austin and Toronto for the games, while New York will host its second Gay Bowl next year. This year the Denver Broncos made a financial contribution and worked with organizers to boost the tournament's reach.
It shows the progress that has been made. Hide Caption. Though competition on the field is fierce, teammates and opponents often embrace afterward. Concerned looks bound the faces of the Hawaii Riptide as they go over a play. The Toronto Mounties pose for a team photo during Gay Bowl's opening morning. A member of the Denver women's Mile High Club squares off on the line of scrimmage. Fans pose with homemade signs spelling -- spelling defense -- on the sideline. For Rollins, flag football is "all-encompassing" in her life.
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The former Army enlistee even met her wife through the league. A Chicago player is "deflagged" during a play. A participant sings Canada's national anthem "O Canada" on the opening morning. The Seattle quarterback steps back for a throw under good pass protection. Huddles form a crucial part of the game. Atlanta players check their plays drawn on wristbands during the huddle. A player sprays his son with sunscreen to protect him from the scorching weather in Denver. Fans shade themselves with umbrellas to guard against the degrees Fahrenheit heat in Denver.
For most of the 1, or so participants of Gay Bowl, the long weekend represents a reunion of friends and a celebration of football -- the sport they love, which in many ways shaped their lives. I've been in weddings, birthday parties, and one funeral. They are like my family outside my immediate family. Flag football was also a means for Santos and his sister, who plays in the female league, to come out to their conservative church-going parents from Texas.
What would do wonders for the perception of gay male athletes, Santos says, is to be represented by a prominent pro. They are not going to lose their jobs. Gay Bowl participants take a knee during the singing of the American national anthem on the opening morning of the tournament, September 14, Bryant agrees.
The former Purdue standout wonders how things may have turned out if his shot at the NFL happened now instead of a decade ago. He points to Arizona State University signing openly gay high school football player My-King Johnson as a step forward.
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Former NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan shares memoir of closeted football life and the toll it took
Diego Maradona. Jonathan Wilson. Philippe Auclair. Trautmann's Journey. He got positive replies and the Pride of Irons was born. Now, it's been endorsed by West Ham, who say they are "incredibly proud of the strong relationship" they have with the group. Their existence seems to have had a real impact on the club and its fans. We're West Ham fans first and foremost, it's about supporting each other. Talking to members of the Pride, I hear stories I can identify with. I was brought up in a West Ham-supporting family, but when I started to question my sexuality as a teenager, I no longer felt like football was for me.
My first visit as a teenager to the club's old Upton Park ground was exciting, yet the blizzard of homophobic abuse aimed at opposing players and fans made me feel hurt and confused. The same went for football culture as a whole, including the laddish banter around the English national team. Once it almost went further than verbal abuse — a mate and I nearly got beaten up by two England-shirt wearing fans outside a pub.
For a long time, while I was open about my bisexuality, I stayed in the closet about my support of West Ham. Just to be clear I am referring to the men's team rather than women's. In women's football there does appear to be more of an acceptance of both LGBT players and fans alike.
For me, as a fan of the men's West Ham team, this openness wasn't something I could relate to until very recently. I remember going to the pub in to watch West Ham win promotion to the Premier League with a victory against Blackpool, but still felt afraid that the one bloke screaming that a player was a "lazy poof" might take out his frustration on me. The statistics seem to back this up. Football's governing body, the FA, is already taking action to tackle homophobia in the sport. A spokesperson said the organisation was "committed to tackling homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in football at every level of the game.
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Since the season, the EFL has had LGBT inclusion embedded in its code of practice , as well as working with an advisory group — set up in — including Stonewall, Football v Homophobia and Pride in Football. Di Cunningham of Proud Canaries, who is as forthright and passionate a fan of her club as she is warm-hearted and funny, is also a lead member of Pride in Football, an umbrella organisation that helps 46 affiliated groups with advice and support on anything from diversity training for stewards to how to get a club mascot on local Pride parades.
Nearly everyone I speak to has experienced abuse at matches, from offhand remarks to homophobic chants, outright verbal assaults and even being spat on. Yet their love of the sport has kept them committed to their clubs. She believes things have changed massively in recent years.