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It’s always irked me how Ball (local 2s footballer not AFL premiership footballer) goes around promoting himself as the first out footballer at any level and isn’t questioned about it. I personally played with 3 players who were out to everyone they knew in the late 00s.Is this your own work? There's some rubbish in it, particularly the criticisms around what women have to endure when compared with the men.
It might need some clarification on which Jason Ball it is too, it's not the AFL version but the suburban league variety. I had to google to check. Once I saw I remembered him.
Goodes wasn't booed because he performed a war dance, he was being booed a long time before that, his war dance was in response to the booing.
Basic research would also tell any journo worth their salt that though we haven’t had an ‘out’ gay man at the top level, Matt Burrows, a Liston Medallist for Preston in the VFA in the early 90s when it was still a decent, well covered comp, was out from very early in his career.