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Former Hull City starlet comes out as gay and hopes to support players in same situation

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Advocate."I literally felt like I had to sacrifice one of the two: who I am, or the sport I loved before I could remember."I used football as a form of escapism and in many ways it saved me, until I reached the point in life where there was some personal growth.

I was standing still on that front."Society [told] me masculinity is linked to sexuality and so being an athlete playing a physical sport felt like a huge contradiction."Beattie played for Hull aged 10 but moved to the United States at 19 on a soccer scholarship.He only came out to his close friends and family three months ago and in going public is now only the fourth player to have played in England to come out as gay, along with Fashanu, Thomas Hitzlsperger and Robbie Rogers.And.

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