{"id":24351,"date":"2015-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T00:00:00","slug":"former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/","title":{"rendered":"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Barry Hall discusses homosexuality in the sport during episode of \u2018I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; Get Me Out Of Here!\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>He may not seem like the obvious spokesman, but that\u2019s why we shouldn\u2019t judge a book by its cover.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with homosexual comedian Joel Creasey on the popular TV show, Barry shared his thoughts on the fact there\u2019s never been an openly gay player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m surprised someone hasn&#8217;t come out yet in AFL,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joel Creasey, Barry Hall\" title=\"Joel Creasey, Barry Hall\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/joel_barry.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout pushing anyone, I think they&#8217;re trying to encourage someone to if they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, all the players I know wouldn&#8217;t care&#8230; not an issue,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n<p>He was also critical of former teammate Jason Akermanis who previously spoke disparagingly of gay footballers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(It) would cause discomfort in that environment should someone declare himself gay,&#8221; Akermanis wrote in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was at the club he was playing at then and the club went ballistic,&#8221; Barry said.<\/p>\n<h6>Images | Channel 10<\/h6>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/tv-journalist-shuts-down-sheikh-after-sexist-comments\">TV HOST SHUTS DOWN GUEST AFTER SEXIST COMMENTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/count-mick-malthouse-out\">COUNT MALTHOUSE OUT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Hall discusses homosexuality in the sport during episode of \u2018I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; Get Me Out Of Here!\u2019 He may not seem like the obvious spokesman, but that\u2019s why we shouldn\u2019t judge a book by its cover. In a conversation with homosexual comedian Joel Creasey on the popular TV show, Barry shared his thoughts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-24351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barry Hall discusses homosexuality in the sport during episode of \u2018I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; Get Me Out Of Here!\u2019 He may not seem like the obvious spokesman, but that\u2019s why we shouldn\u2019t judge a book by its cover. In a conversation with homosexual comedian Joel Creasey on the popular TV show, Barry shared his thoughts on [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FIVEAA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-11T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barry_joel.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"634\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"390\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@1395FIVEaa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tim Ashdown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"headline\":\"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-11T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/barry_joel.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/\",\"name\":\"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL - FIVEAA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/barry_joel.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-11T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/barry_joel.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/barry_joel.jpg\",\"width\":634,\"height\":390},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/news\\\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/\",\"name\":\"FIVEAA\",\"description\":\"Always Adelaide\",\"alternateName\":\"FIVEAA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687\",\"name\":\"Tim Ashdown\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tim Ashdown\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\\\/author\\\/tashdown\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL - FIVEAA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL","og_description":"Barry Hall discusses homosexuality in the sport during episode of \u2018I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; Get Me Out Of Here!\u2019 He may not seem like the obvious spokesman, but that\u2019s why we shouldn\u2019t judge a book by its cover. In a conversation with homosexual comedian Joel Creasey on the popular TV show, Barry shared his thoughts on [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/","og_site_name":"FIVEAA","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1395FIVEaa","article_published_time":"2015-03-11T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":634,"height":390,"url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barry_joel.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Tim Ashdown","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@1395FIVEaa","twitter_site":"@1395FIVEaa","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tim Ashdown","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/"},"author":{"name":"Tim Ashdown","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687"},"headline":"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL","datePublished":"2015-03-11T00:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/"},"wordCount":183,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barry_joel.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/","name":"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL - FIVEAA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barry_joel.jpg","datePublished":"2015-03-11T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barry_joel.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barry_joel.jpg","width":634,"height":390},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-star-opens-up-on-homosexuality-in-afl\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Former star opens up on homosexuality in AFL"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/","name":"FIVEAA","description":"Always Adelaide","alternateName":"FIVEAA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/c9993afbb4e9c76944cb880fa918b687","name":"Tim Ashdown","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3d478e03918069695ae92ceb9741ab4b36830cf8102e75dd26c3949e28ad1aba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tim Ashdown"},"url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/author\/tashdown\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barry_joel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24351"},{"taxonomy":"geo_market","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geo_market?post=24351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}