Collin Martin becomes the second openly gay player in MLS history

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As a fellow member of the LGBTQ community, I can’t tell you how great it feels to read something like this. I really hope more will follow his example.
 
bpet15 said:
Not the first - but good for him for coming out.
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First MLS player maybe?

Always great news to hear athletes coming out. Bit weird/sad that it still seems like a really big deal but it’s a great way to smash tired stereotypes about effeminate, weak gay men. When a big tough bastard like Gareth Thomas came out that goes a long way towards getting rid of “gay” as a schoolboy term of abuse.
 
bpet15 said:
Not the first - but good for him for coming out.
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Yeah, sorry for that. Was so happy when a mate told me, I didn’t bother to check. Only mods can change the title, right?
 
Damien said:
Nah. Thread Tools > Edit Thread top right.
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Thanks.

As he is already the second player to come out, how where the reactions when Robbie Rogers came out?
 
Inb4 all the conservatives/right-wingers who want him to shut up about it.
 
HTG said:
As a fellow member of the LGBTQ community, I can’t tell you how great it feels to read something like this. I really hope more will follow his example.
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What do you think the reaction will be in the LGBTQ community if he gets a job in the media within the next year? Will he face any backlash or will they generally just be pleased a sportsman came out?
 
Good for him.

As soon as I saw the thread title I was going to say that I await the first "I don't care" post. Yet I see I've already missed someone saying the same thing, someone making that inevitable post and someone following it up with a comment about how inevitable it was, all within the first fifteen responses. The caf sure is fast these days.
 
sullydnl said:
Good for him.

As soon as I saw the thread title I was going to say that I await the first "I don't care" post. Yet I see I've already missed someone saying the same thing, someone making that inevitable post and someone following it up with a comment about how inevitable it was, all within the first fifteen responses. The caf sure is fast these days.
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But at least no ones pretended to be black yet.
 
Good news, and hopefully this means others will feel at least a bit more comfortable sharing their sexual orientation, should they feel inclined to do so.
 
redmeister said:
What do you think the reaction will be in the LGBTQ community if he gets a job in the media within the next year? Will he face any backlash or will they generally just be pleased a sportsman came out?
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When Hitzlsperger came out and got a job on television, the reactions were very positive, from what I remember. I was quite happy, too. Representation matters.
 
HTG said:
When Hitzlsperger came out and got a job on television, the reactions were very positive, from what I remember. I was quite happy, too. Representation matters.
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But there would be no cynicism when Hitzlsperger and Rogers came out. They were international footballers and had had decent careers. I don't think anyone has heard of this guy and looking at his career stats, it's not as if he's likely to have a bright future in the game. He's apparently been out for a long time in his normal life.
 
redmeister said:
But there would be no cynicism when Hitzlsperger and Rogers came out. They were international footballers and had had decent careers. I don't think anyone has heard of this guy and looking at his career stats, it's not as if he's likely to have a bright future in the game. He's apparently been out for a long time in his normal life.
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I don’t think anyone in the community would mind. Outside of it obviously enough.
 
Is he still active or is he retiring? Good for him and this would be different to Hitzlsperger or Robbie Rogers.
 
That's brilliant. Great to see.

redmeister said:
But there would be no cynicism when Hitzlsperger and Rogers came out. They were international footballers and had had decent careers. I don't think anyone has heard of this guy and looking at his career stats, it's not as if he's likely to have a bright future in the game. He's apparently been out for a long time in his normal life.
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No one gives a shit.
 
Fair play to the lad, the day and age of homophobia is well and truly over in the mainstream.

You will always get your pathetic band of people but like racism, it will be reduced to the minority of idiots in crazy countries and bigots in our country.
 
What's also great to see from that Twitter thread, how other MLS clubs and players like Altidore etc, greet the announcement.

Sad part, though, reading this line on his wiki page: "...became the only active male professional soccer player to be openly gay". Not that it's anything new, still baffling.
 
klsv said:
What's also great to see from that Twitter thread, how other MLS clubs and players like Altidore etc, greet the announcement.

Sad part, though, reading this line on his wiki page: "...became the only active male professional soccer player to be openly gay". Not that it's anything new, still baffling.
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Guess quite a bit of players don't want to be known just as "the gay one" (besides the other obvious reasons), because if you announce it at this point this will be your label. It's like when loads of people (a sizeable portion on this forum too) were convinced that Smalling or Mata were gay, because of their voice or the way they dress. Some people just have a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that someone just happens to be gay rather than this being his one and only defining trait.
 
About time a prem player comes out sure they will get the inevitable abuse, but so did the likes of Rooney and Beckham for doing stupid things (not saying being gay is stupid just to clarify) but before long there performances outweighed everything else and they were judged appropiatley upon the basis of there performances. I beleive this would be the case if a player were to come out as gay,they would initially get abuse but before long people would simply not care and judge them just on there footballing skills
 
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