Lol a little bit touchy are we .NlolRL wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:17 pmlets see how your gay RL player describes his experience:AFLcrap1 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 2:08 pmLol
Please don't try to compare the two leagues .
We have & have had gay people in our sport ..with no problems .
We had a gay anthem sung at our GF which was well supported ..
Your sport on the other hand has had no gay male players dare to come out .
& the afl took their gay support sign down ..
Was it because the homophobic fans got upset .
Ian downplays his coming out, calling his sexuality “the worst kept secret in rugby league.”
Despite being told by his coach that it wouldn’t be accepted, and his fears that his personal and professional lives couldn’t possibly mix, Ian decided to be open about his orientation after getting to know a child with HIV.
Ian thought he would open the door for other athletes to come out – but he was surprised when, decades later, the game hadn’t changed as much as he’d expected.
“I thought there would be a trickle on effect … I wouldn’t have thought, 20 years down the line, that only one other player had come out at the end of his career,” he says. “We like to think things have changed, but they haven’t really.”
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/arti ... gue-player
So according to Roberts he was told by someone within the NRL NOT to come out. Despite this he did so, not because he felt supported or accepted, but because he felt convicted about someone he knew who lived with AIDS. Since coming out he has seen no real change in attitudes about gay acceptance within the RL community.
So you can take your sanctimonious horse shit about the differences in gay acceptance and shove it up your arse
Simple fact
We have had a gay player
We have an openly gay referee .
No probs
& just because a coach advised against it doesn't Change the fact that he was accepted .
Just like Checcin is accepted .
& I can be as sanctimonious as I want to be
Because your backward racist homophipobic sport still hasn't had a gay male come out .
It is well into the 2000s
Except in afl ..welcome to 1950 .