{"id":3634,"date":"2022-09-08T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2022-09-08T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:42:36","slug":"jack-dunne-exeter-chiefs-lock-hopes-to-inspire-other-lgbtq-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2022\/09\/08\/jack-dunne-exeter-chiefs-lock-hopes-to-inspire-other-lgbtq-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dunne: Exeter Chiefs lock hopes to inspire other LGBTQ+ men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2022\/09\/126628127_jackdunnegetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2022\/09\/126628127_jackdunnegetty2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2022\/09\/126628127_jackdunnegetty2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2022\/09\/126628127_jackdunnegetty2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An imposing 6ft 8in lock is nothing new in the Premiership, but Exeter&#8217;s Jack Dunne will be the league&#8217;s only openly LGBTQ+ player when he makes his debut for the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 23-year-old&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/60694536\">summer signing from Leinster<\/a>&nbsp;follows in the footsteps of Gareth Thomas and former Saracens back Sam Stanley, as well as current Premiership referee Craig Maxwell-Keys and long-serving Welsh official Nigel Owens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully once there are one or two more people it will start to feel that this is something they can say and it won&#8217;t be a big thing,&#8221; Dunne, who identifies as bisexual, told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully it would be good for other gay or bisexual men to see people like me and hopefully it&#8217;ll give them a bit of confidence to be able to be who they are.&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/62825502\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An imposing 6ft 8in lock is nothing new in the Premiership, but Exeter&#8217;s Jack Dunne will be the league&#8217;s only openly LGBTQ+ player when he makes his debut for the club. The 23-year-old&nbsp;summer signing from &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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inclusion","category-lgbt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","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=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}