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GAY in the G.A.A?!

  • 09-08-2006 9:27pm
    #1
    Riveta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭


    Now i may have started this before but it's just such a pressing issue! Now statistically there has to be some gay guys on GAA teams, but none of them are out! I mean it's completly unreasonable to expect them all to be straight!


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  • #2
    antSionnach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭antSionnach


    Im trying to imagine some Little Britain-esque guy with a hurley and a limp wrist going *I am the only gay in the GAA*:p

    Yes obviously there are some, gay people exist in all sports. I dont get why its so important for them to be out, its very hard to come out in that kind of 'wudja-do-her" environment, as Im sure everyone could attest.

    Just thinking out loud but, in my Dads office theres a woman whose husband is a former Gaelic football selector and footballer and their marriage has broken up due to his being gay it seems. They have kids and everything. So being exposed to an environment where certain things are expected of you may aggrevate it?

    I know that I, for example have gone to an all boys primary, have never really had female friends (as in close friends), played every sport along the way and am still involved in that kind of thing (not GAA though:p ), am now am on a course with not too many women, and yeah, it makes coming out very... well, not appealing anyway:) Put simply, you'd be shunned.

    Jesus this is incoherent. Me. bed. now.


  • #3
    fletch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,444 ✭✭✭fletch


    I know at least 3 gay rugby players so I've no doubt there are gay GAA players


  • #4
    Shellie13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭Shellie13


    wasnt there one who the papers tried to run a story on there last year?!
    Think he was fpr kerry-wasnt a major name...think he actually told his team in the end and they didnt care...tbh maybe i just happen to know decent people or something but most of the GAA players i no wouldnt give a **** if a team mate was gay...Rugby/soccer people i no seem to be less acceptin, maybe thats just the individuals i no anyway...

    really though if someone was how would the general public really know?! Like would you know personally if an apparently straite player you knew had a girlfriend for instance?!


  • #5
    gaymale.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭gaymale.ie


    You can be sure The Sun is trawling gaydar, waiting to pounce on any gay man in the GAA, but apart from that I can't see any volunteering to out themselves. That’s not unique to the GAA, sport itself is the last bastion of homophobia be it soccer, rugby etc.


  • #6
    damien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭damien


    gaymale.ie wrote:
    sport itself is the last bastion of homophobia be it soccer, rugby etc.

    Figure skating...


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  • #7
    antSionnach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭antSionnach


    Figure Skaters... yes manly!

    Just came across this interesting article about attitudes in the GAA.
    It's pretty old btw, but it's a pretty positive read.


  • #8
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    gi.gif

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #9
    speedy21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭speedy21


    Jarlath Gregory had a book out last year called G.A.A.Y - which tackles this very subject...

    Amazon link = http://www.amazon.co.uk/G-A-A-Y-One-Hundred-Ways-Love-a-Beautiful-Loser/dp/1903305152/sr=8-1/qid=1157420413/ref=sr_1_1/026-0239233-4222012?ie=UTF8&s=gateway


  • #10
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    It might just be me but couldn't there be alot of guys who are out and we just don't know about it. One talks as if if they are out that we should all know abou it. Couldn't it be that they are out to the team and that they don't care about it. How would anybody know?

    When one says they don't know any hurlers/footballers who are gay, how many do they know in general. ( This is true for me but prob not for everybody. )

    Is it expected that we know all the out people?


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