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It just feels normal. You can hear much more from Callum on the latest episode of the Football v Homophobia Podcast. Contact us to discuss how we can help you. He was in his early 20s when he first felt able to talk about being gay with family and friends.

While incidents such as that have made it tough at times to be a gay footballer, he says the benefits of getting to be himself in the game he loves makes it all worthwhile. Having the strong support of his teammates is particularly important to Callum. Learn more about us here.

That has brought some difficulties, such as having to think about how to challenge homophobic language in matches. Yet for the third consecutive season, there will be none in There is a small but growing of out gay male pro football players currently playing across the globe.

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In a game in late September, Chew Magna FC walked off the pitch in protest after an anti-gay slur was said by an opponent. The Chew Magna FC squad and gay pose for their pre-season photo. This is a list of notable, openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, and queer -identifying athletes associated with American Football, namely the NFL.

This includes those who were posthumously outed. Jon Holmes Digital Sports Editor. The incident is currently under investigation. List of LGBTQ American football players For a more in-depth discussion of the topic go here: Homosexuality in American Football.

The village football club was founded more than 75 years ago, and it was a natural fit for local lad Callum Hodge to take his place in the team. In a previous life, he was a talk radio loudmouth in Boston. Jon Mulkeen has been working in track and field media for nearly 20 years, and is among the LGBTQ editors and journalists out footbal the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo; here, he discusses his role and what makes the sport he loves so inclusive, and shares some of his personal journey too….

Spirit of defiance radiates at third annual summer event from Football v Homophobia; LGBTQ fan groups, EDI professionals, academics and personalities unite for a day of queer culture and conversations in the game…. There have been 16 gay or bi players come out publicly in the NFL, which is in its th season.

I was nervous but everyone just made me feel perfectly normal, which is how it should be. It was as if everyone else knew and had decided for him, before he was able to footbal comfort in himself. Related Posts. Coming out in a rural community was far from easy for Callum.

Callum is keen to help other guys playing grassroots football who may be struggling with coming out. At Imperial, another team in the Somerset County League, he proved his point by scoring a glut of goals. Alex Reimer is an Assistant Editor at Queerty who writes about sports and fitness, politics and irreverent gay things.

By Jon Holmes. (Getty/Facebook) The world of men’s professional football has long been playing catch-up when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation and visibility, with very few openly gay professional footballers. Pro football is becoming more gay of male players in the LGBTQ+ community.

Share with us and tap into a worldwide audience through our Google News affiliate website which attracts thousands of visitors, and our popular social channels. Callum then returned to Chew Magna and over the course of a decade, has become their record goalscorer.