Ashes hero is first open homosexual cricketer | The Sun |News
Good on the lad for having the confidence to come out, and the rest of the ashes lads for proving that "everyone would be uncomfortable in the dressing room" bollocks wrong.
Steve Davies announces his homosexuality.
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Ashes hero is first open homosexual cricketer | The Sun |News
Good on the lad for having the confidence to come out, and the rest of the ashes lads for proving that "everyone would be uncomfortable in the dressing room" bollocks wrong.
Oh, I thought you meant the legendary snooker player.
Expected, really. The England team seems to be full of nice guys.
So did I...Shame, he would've been more fun.
Only the third top flight sportsman and only second active one if I'm not mistaken. Which really is a bit shit for 2011. Good for him though. Hopefully this brings more acceptance and less fear for others down the line. Step forward. What phelans said..blah...Snooker player would've given a funnier interview though.
Oh, I always assumed it was a prerequisite for cricket players.
This would have been so much better if it was the snooker player.
Sad world we live in when you have to hide the real you due to fear of ridicule and prejudice.
So, is he good looking?
i always has a hunch to be honest. whenever he went for a stumping he always took the middle stump first.
Massive respect to him, can't be an easy thing to do so early in his career.
On another note can't believe Prior got back in the one day side ahead of him, Davies is in my opinion the best one day opening batsman we have in England, let alone batsman/wicketkeeper. He would have been fantastic in India and possibly allow us to play Bopara down the order as well as Pietersen would move to four and Bell to five.
On another note can't believe Prior got back in the one day side ahead of him, Davies is in my opinion the best one day opening batsman we have in England, let alone batsman/wicketkeeper. He would have been fantastic in India and possibly allow us to play Bopara down the order as well as Pietersen would move to four and Bell to five.
Oh well done him. I wish more sports stars would come out. Hopefully this'll be the opening of a flood gate..if you'll excuse the imagery.
At least it's someone current in a mainstream sport.
At least it's someone current in a mainstream sport.
It just goes to show... you can never tell, can you?
It says a lot about professional football that homosexual players feel unable to 'out' themselves. Or perhaps it says more about football supporters.
I think it says more about the internal politics of the game. It's a shame because I really don't think it'd be that much of a problem. Away fans would give stick but they'd do that for anything anyway. It'd be more taking the piss rather than anything nasty of aggressive.
I still think it's a big problem the lack of 'normal' role models for young gay teens. When I was growing up even in the late 90s, the only example of homosexuals in entertainment that I was aware of were camp TV presenters and comedians.
I'm not sure I can think of a less likely sportsman... would be far too interesting!
And yet here you are...
Are you saying the gays aren't interesting? ...Homaphobe! Homaphobe!!!
If he's ever accused of Ball-tampering will we ever hear the end of it?
I don`t care.......he`s gay and?
It's an important thing. Only 3 players in top flight sport have ever come out, only two of whom were active, one of whom killed himself tragically. If you can't see it's significant you're blind...It is important. To both him and the sporting World. Why do you care it's getting coverage?
He is reasonably cute as it goes. At least he looked it on telly when I saw him earlier.
Better than when Gareth Thomas came out. I mean really love, do it when you have hair and don't have more wrinkles than a ball sack, then I might give a shit.
Better than when Gareth Thomas came out. I mean really love, do it when you have hair and don't have more wrinkles than a ball sack, then I might give a shit.
"I don`t care" means that i don`t care about the sexuality about someone.
I know the homosexuality is a taboo in the sports but for me it`s not important the sexuality of someone.
It's not important to you, but it's important in setting an example for the numerous homosexual sportsmen, not just in cricket. He's just 24 and the way he is received(I suspect there won't be many problems, because the English team's classy and cricket crowds are generally good) will inspire many others to do the same. Davies himself had said that on his first away tour, it was slightly a mental torment to keep this to himself while traveling with the team.
Neither you or I can empathize with what he felt, but it's clearly a big deal. There'll be a day when a lot of others come out, and people don't care, then you can actually happily say it's not a big deal. Right now, we are nowhere near that.
I don't see why anyone feels the need to disclose their sexuality. We're playing sports, not fecking. It's really not relevant.
He doesn't disfigure the balls. Loves them too much. Only caresses them.
He said in an interview that he felt it was important because he was sometimes spending several weeks on tour with England. He said it made the social side of being in the team very difficult and he used to dread touring with his national side rather than it feeling like the pinnacle of his sporting achievement as it should.
The team and management's reaction sounds heartening.
It isn't that important but it is in terms of social normalisation and acceptance, which is very important. People always talk about it being 'irrelevant' and all that nonsense, but it's very relevant and positive.
If he were to announce his engagement or bring his wife along to watch him during the game, would the response be 'He's playing cricket not fecking!!!!'
..I suspect not. As homosexuality becomes more and more tolerated and acceptable, these little things the public ignore about others in the public eye and take for granted, will be noticed and will be commented on because they're different.
If he announced his engagement to a girlfriend, I'm sure whilst people who say they don't give a toss about him coming out would not have cared about an engagement announcement, they equally probably wouldn't have seen fit to comment as to how little they care about it and how irrelevant to them it is.
I think there's a huge difference alone just there.
No its important because unless they do it themselves them scum like the NOTW will find out anyway, follow them round until they find a compromising situation they can take a picture of and build a sensational story around it.
If wags are allowed on tours, does he he get to take his mate?
This bloke, Gareth Thomas and the Aussie rugby league player (forget his name) are the three I assume you're talking about. Who are the two who are active? I thought Thomas and the rugby league bloke retired at about the same time they came out?
There's a famous hurler in Ireland who recently came out too. Which was incredibly brave, when you bear in mind what a conservative organisation the GAA is.
It's amazing the numbers are still so small though. Weird to think about so many people still having to live a lie in this day and age.
Is it living a lie, or they don't feel the need to tell the world their sexual orientation because it's personal?
It's living a lie.
How would you feel if you could never bring your wife/girlfriend along to any social events you attend through work? Or introduce her to any of your colleagues? Or even mention her in passing?
Every time homosexuality is discussed, people seem to obsess about the actual act of having sex and try to argue that sex is a private act, so sexuality should also be kept private. Funnily enough, this same line of reasoning is never used when heterosexual people are open and honest about the fact they have a partner of the opposite sex.
Your choice of partner has a far bigger role in your public and personal life than whatever goes in in the privacy of your own bedroom.
Point taken.
I wasn't even aware of the Aussie bloke, I was talking about Fash. He came out in 1990 and played for 7 more years. That was incredibly brave. It's tragic that he's remembered how he is, and not as the pioneer for both race and sexuality in football he was. I mean he is remembered like that to a degree, but always tinted with "isn't it tragic." etc etc.
On a related note, what a goal this is..
Ian Roberts is the aussie RL player, he played for another 3 seasons after coming out.
No wonder he always turned down the open pink in favour of the tight brown.
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Oof. That's weak, Brophs. Even for you.
This bloke's a cricketer anyway. I assumed someone was going to trot out the famous line about "the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willy"
Failing that, some sort of gag about getting his leg over might have worked.
This bloke's a cricketer anyway. I assumed someone was going to trot out the famous line about "the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willy"
Failing that, some sort of gag about getting his leg over might have worked.
This big anouncement is like an open invitation for him to get more cock I reckon,better than facebook this is the media.
Spot on. His Inbox might be clogged. (No pun intended.)