{"id":3530,"date":"2021-10-27T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:57:29","slug":"josh-cavallo-im-a-footballer-and-im-gay-says-australian-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2021\/10\/27\/josh-cavallo-im-a-footballer-and-im-gay-says-australian-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Cavallo: &#8216;I&#8217;m a footballer and I&#8217;m gay,&#8217; says Australian player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/10\/121224137_gettyimages-1318837584.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/10\/121224137_gettyimages-1318837584.jpg 976w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/10\/121224137_gettyimages-1318837584-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/10\/121224137_gettyimages-1318837584-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adelaide United player Josh Cavallo has come out as gay, becoming the only current male professional footballer in the world to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 21-year-old wrote on social media that he was &#8220;ready to speak about something personal that I&#8217;m finally comfortable to talk about in my life&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a footballer and I&#8217;m gay,&#8221; the midfielder said in an accompanying video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All I want to do is play football and be treated equally.&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/newsbeat-59060323\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/newsbeat-59060323\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide United player Josh Cavallo has come out as gay, becoming the only current male professional footballer in the world to do so. The 21-year-old wrote on social media that he was &#8220;ready to speak &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}