UK's first active male professional footballer to come out publicly as gay

[Sir peace frog]

The sooner it’s normalized, the better for everyone. I couldn’t imagine living in an open prison of bigotry in my chosen profession, and just because of the nonsensical insecurities of my teammates.

i work in an industry full of gay people as do you, however down on the ramp i have only ever met two openly gay lads out of all the people off the ramp, literally hundreds, probably thousands of lads, now upstairs checkin and passenger services, not to mention cabin crew i would say a good majority of the males are gay, some of them rummer than the ramp lads :) and you know what, nobody gives a fuck

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

i work in an industry full of gay people as do you, however down on the ramp i have only ever met two openly gay lads out of all the people off the ramp, literally hundreds, probably thousands of lads, now upstairs checkin and passenger services, not to mention cabin crew i would say a good majority of the males are gay, some of them rummer than the ramp lads :) and you know what, nobody gives a fuck

They probably don’t have Neanderthal trolls and bots on social media that would perpetually say horrific things about them though.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

I don’t understand why people need to declare their sexuality, it is a personal matter.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

I don’t understand why people need to declare their sexuality, it is a personal matter.

Why don’t you have a think about it

 

[CTID1988]

The homophobia at footie games these days in my experience is non existent compared to even 10 years ago, definitely been a big step forward. I hope footie players can start to feel comfortable being themselves rather than hiding

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The homophobia at footie games these days in my experience is non existent compared to even 10 years ago, definitely been a big step forward. I hope footie players can start to feel comfortable being themselves rather than hiding

You can’t even sing about gentlemen for hire in western London these days.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

i work in an industry full of gay people as do you, however down on the ramp i have only ever met two openly gay lads out of all the people off the ramp, literally hundreds, probably thousands of lads, now upstairs checkin and passenger services, not to mention cabin crew i would say a good majority of the males are gay, some of them rummer than the ramp lads :) and you know what, nobody gives a fuck

I've travelled a fair bit on Virgin Atlantic over the last few years and I think you are probably right. Fair bit of tutting and eye rolling from the older generation of passengers but most people didn't give a flying fuck (pun intended).

Saw our crew out on the piss in Vegas a couple of years back and they were "Avin' it large" as the kids would say.

 

[Sir peace frog]

I've travelled a fair bit on Virgin Atlantic over the last few years and I think you are probably right. Fair bit of tutting and eye rolling from the older generation of passengers but most people didn't give a flying fuck (pun intended).

Saw our crew out on the piss in Vegas a couple of years back and they were "Avin' it large" as the kids would say.

the aviation industry in general like to party :), but as we work shifts our saturday night is usually midweek :)

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

You can’t even sing about gentlemen for hire in western London these days.

Can't sing about anything.
Can't even call scouse bastards murderers

 

[SebastianBlue]

Good on him. Hopefully it’ll encourage more players to feel confident to come out.

I hope so, as well.

The more “come out”, the easier it will be for more to come out, until there is no need to come out anymore.