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Apr 16, 2007 Quickie Link: Will a Gay Footballer Ever Come Out Of The Comfort Zone?
By vanrozenheim

Football, it seems, is one of the last professional environments where you can't be out and proud. In every other entertainment industry we have gay stars. Why should football be different? Are football fans really so incapable of watching a gay player without abusing him? Famously, Justin Fashanu was the only footballer who dared come out back in 1990, and eight years later he killed himself. But football was a very different place then.



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