Matt Lucas and Eddie Izzard are among the many stars supporting Blackpool ahead Jake Daniels, who has turn into the first professional footballer to come back out as homosexual in 32 years.
Daniels, 17, turned the primary male skilled participant in English soccer to come back out as homosexual since Justin Fashanu in 1990 along with his unbelievable assertion.
Little Britain star Matt wrote on Twitter: ‘It’s a landmark day in British LGBT historical past.
‘Good, courageous @Jake_Daniels11 – an expert Championship footballer with @BlackpoolFC – has come out. Large respect to you, Jake, and to your membership and teammates for supporting you.’
Eddie merely added: ‘I salute you, Jake’.
Roman Kemp went on to say: ‘Large like to Jake Daniels. What a man!’ whereas YouTuber Joe Weller tweeted: ‘Respect to Jake Daniels.’
Daniels, who signed his first skilled cope with Blackpool in February, made his senior debut for the Championship membership earlier this month.
‘Now's the proper time to do it. I really feel like I'm prepared to inform individuals my story. I need individuals to know the true me,’ he mentioned in an interview with Sky Sports activities Information.
‘I've been considering for a very long time about how I need to do it, once I need to do it. I do know now's the time. I'm able to be myself, be free and be assured with all of it.
JAKE DANIELS' MESSAGE TO BLACKPOOL FANS
‘I can’t actually put a date on it, however I used to be in all probability 5 or 6 years outdated once I knew I used to be homosexual. So it’s been a very long time that I've been dwelling with the lie.
‘At that age you don’t actually suppose that soccer and being homosexual doesn’t combine. You simply suppose, someday, once I’m older I’ll get a girlfriend and I'll change and it is going to be fantastic.
‘However as you become older you realise you possibly can’t simply change. It doesn’t work like that.’
Fashanu turned the primary male British skilled footballer to come back out in 1990 earlier than he took his personal life eight years later on the age of 37.
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