Gay footballers | Czech Republic international Jakub Jankto comes out as gay
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Ridiculous almost no footballers have come out. I would not be surprised some of ours are not heterosexual, and I want them to come out.
Brave move and good for him. Hope he pays more attention to all those wishing him well than the idiots that are bound to react.
Good for him. What’s the culture like for gays in the Czech Republic?
Not really surprising. Men are much more prone to homophobia with many projecting their own bad behavior (hitting on or groping women) onto others.
Really hope we see the day when players aren't afraid to come out and tell people about their sexuality. It's really bad that they still have to hide it out of fear even in countries were it is accepted.
Well done to him. No one should be afraid to be what they are otherwise life's not worth living.
As far as I know it's good. I have a mate from Czechia who's gay and he says it's a west thinking culture. Saying that you'll find morons everywhere.
Strangely I was watching a Ben Foster podcast this morning when he was asked if knew any players he played with that came out and he said none.
It's about time football removes the stigma about this, I think as soon as a few high profile names come out it will eventually be quite common for players to come out.
It's about time football removes the stigma about this, I think as soon as a few high profile names come out it will eventually be quite common for players to come out.
From the former socialistic states it is probably the most open society together with Slovenia if I had to guess.
I think this a huge step, not just for football, but for gay people in general.
If more footballers come out as gay now, fans of them clubs should theoretically get behind the player because it's their player. If this happens in several clubs at least, then it might wake some of the ignorant, homophobes up and start accepting it in other walks of life.
If more footballers come out as gay now, fans of them clubs should theoretically get behind the player because it's their player. If this happens in several clubs at least, then it might wake some of the ignorant, homophobes up and start accepting it in other walks of life.
I dont think so. Women are prone too homphobia to just not in sports it seems
There might also be an element here in which sports are seen as a 'manly' activity, while gay man are seen as effeminate, and lesbian women as masculine. Meaning that it makes sense (in this mindset) that female sporters are lesbian but not that male sporters are gay.
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Maybe but I just think its just generalisation based on the "Sex and the city" idea of a gay man. Nfl, bodybuilding, mma, football and basketball had/have their own gay athletes and none of those sports are figure skating.
I'm not claiming it's the only reason, but it might play a role. There's probably also different mindsets across different sports, even if the physicality is the same. But yeah, I find it's always hard to really understand why intolerant people think the way they do.
Wasn't expecting that! Proud of him. I would say in Czech we are more open-minded than not in general, the LGBT community is quite strong here, some of the expat gays moving here because of that but then again I live in a bubble so there are backward thinking morons everywhere, looking at the election results over years, social media discussions etc..
That being said I think he will have it easier here with all the support he's got from not just media but the whole football community.
Takes a lot of courage, especially after the murder of homosexual couple few month ago in Slovakia and surely will be used on a stadium against him but he's one of the smarter footballers so will get over it.
Step forward for the whole community and society..
That being said I think he will have it easier here with all the support he's got from not just media but the whole football community.
Takes a lot of courage, especially after the murder of homosexual couple few month ago in Slovakia and surely will be used on a stadium against him but he's one of the smarter footballers so will get over it.
Step forward for the whole community and society..
I would have hope it had changed a bit with Gareth Thomas but not so much, I guess rugby isn't popular enough. The man was a beast.
Pretty much.
Love that you always have like 10-20% of comments that say something like that, they're really clueless (and they don't fool anyone) :
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Really? The media and general community yes but football community in Czech Republic? Not so sure about that.
That whole Kamara fiasco revealed a lot.. two biggest clubs in the country showed themselves up big time. I admire him for having the guts to do this in a country with football fans like that.
Why is it clueless?
If you say anything that's not perfectly politically correct, it's obviously clueless.
At last. Being the first one in ages is a brave thing to do. Hopefully in a few years it won't be newsworthy.
Prague is very gay-friendly.
That’s good to hear
Fair play to him for doing it but it is sad that this is even an issue to be honest.
Good on him. Hopefully this empowers more footballers to come out, so that hopefully one day we can reach a point where it's no longer news when one of them is gay (Which it is right now because of where we're currently at)
A lot of negative reactions are to be expected. The Far Right "algorithms" brainwashed a lot of people in these late years. Those people are more vocal now, because they feel they have someone giving them political voice.
Do you genuinely think these people make similar comments on the thousands of news/gossip stories about straight footballers’ love lives, their wives and girlfriends, their celebrity weddings, etc? Or any other stories about footballers’ personal lives away from the pitch, come to that? Or do they only have a problem with stories about footballers coming out as gay?
Brave of him. Hopefully will encourage others as well. Easy to say but there is strength in numbers and the more footballers that come out, the easier it will make it for others to do the same.
Go on places like the DM and you will realise that there are just a lot of sad, unhappy people who will be nasty on any article. This is what some people don't understand. They think that only X group gets nasty abuse because they are gay, trans, black etc but everyone in the public eye gets it. Its just the form that abuse takes that differs. Humans are simple creatures and they will use whatever they think will hurt someone. Sometimes thats their sexuality, their height, their weight, their skin colour, their children, their talent, their looks, their age, their political affiliation.
There obviously are far more gay footballers out there than we know because of simple statistics. I always wonder with this sort of thing how much of it is rational fear and how much of it is irrational. Because there are so few, no one really wants to be the first and the figurehead for it all in the PL etc. Football fans are an awful bunch but they are also an enigma. You would probably find that a player who came out as gay would get abuse from some opposition fans....until one of their own came out and then magically it would be fine.
I think it was in Italy but I might be wrong. They were shouting racist abuse at opposition players but loved their own black players and that didn't strike them as at all odd and they didn't even consider it racist because they were just trying to put off the opposition players. In their dense skulls that was fine. Thats the sort of bizarre logic some football fans have.
Anyway, I'm sure over the next 10 years or so we will find out that around 5% of players are gay and it will become very normalised.
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Well done him. We live in heternormative cultures and that assumption of heterosexuality means we must have sportspeople and others announce their homosexuality, in order for gay people to be represented, and to bring about a gradual shift in understanding of the makeup of our societies and acceptance and celebration of that.
This story was on BBC front sport page. I have not seen the other content you speak off on BBC sport's front page.
Although he did get a lot of high profile support, he also seemed to have a really tough time of it , getting attacked and abused horrifically, which might have put quite a few other sportsmen off coming out. It certainly showed that society hasn't moved forward as much we like to think it has, certainly in some quarters.
It's a good thing homophobes now feel they'd better avoid explicit insults and have to resort to petty, peripheral complaints such as "focus on football", "why so much coverage", "don't care" (yeah, right, that's why you are commenting) and so on. It's progress, I guess.
"how is this football-related news?"
To be interested in football while being oblivious that football is still stuck in a "don't ask don't tell" posture on homosexuality, so much that yes, in football, a coming-out is still a very newsworthy story in 2023... that's indeed clueless.
Thank you. As I said, people commenting "we don't care, we don't tell the whole world we're heterosexual!" don't fool anyone as a poster just pointed out.
The fact that you even have to ask why it is clueless or blame it on PC culture, just shows that you're clueless and ignorant.
Threads like these certainly do out some people.