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Semi-Pro UK Footballer Liam Davis Comes Out

Liam Davis joined Thomas Hitzlsperger and Ian Matos as a newly out professional athlete when he discussed his personal life in an interview in the Lincolnshire Echo:

I personally hope that over the next 10 years I’m not the only gay footballer out there. Nobody wants to be forced out, but I hope they can look and see there is someone out there who has done it. I hope we can get to a stage where it is not a bad thing, that there is no problem and people just get on with it.

Alongside his sporting, the 23-year-old Davis owns a restaurant (the Point Café and Bar in Cleethopres) with his partner.  We would like to eat at that restaurant.

According to the interview, Davis was inspired by Hitzlsperger and has decided to come forward with his sexuality, about which his family and friends already knew, in the hopes of inspiring future gay athletes.

Davis currently plays as a midfielder for Gainsborough Trinity.  He has found his teammates to be supportive:

I didn’t know if people knew. I had intended to just get on with playing football. There had been questions like, ‘have you got a girlfriend’, and I’d just say ‘no’, because it was the truth, so I had a suspicion that they might have an idea. Then it turned out they all knew from the first day I was at training.

Personally, I’m happy being out and proud of it. I don’t see why I should hide who I am ... Gainsborough is a good club, but they are not any different to a lot of teams in how they look after their players.  I don’t think many changing rooms would make outcast of team-mates. I think it is becoming more socially acceptable.

Congrats to Davis!  We look forward to hearing more from him in the future.

h/t: Towleroad

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