'Why am I the only male Scottish footballer to come out?'
Is football homophobic and what can we do if it is? Those were the questions I wanted to answer when theMy decision last September to become the first male Scottish senior footballer to come out publicly as gay was not an easy or quick one. It took a lot of hard work.
I had told my family and close friends 18 months before but it had actually taken 20 years to get to the stage where I was able to be my true authentic self and continue to play football. I'm now 31 and football is the game I have loved from the moment I started kicking a ball as a small child.By my teens I was I playing for Motherwell's youth team but I was also beginning to realise I was different from my friends.I fought it because of the kind of conversations I was having in the changing room.These were the sorts of conversations young lads have - about girls, being tough, playing hard, and the language used to describe gay men was not what you would call inclusive.
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