My lesbian ex regularly takes her eldest son on Pride marches, and he's as straight as they come... I'd sort his girlfriend out any day of the week.

BTW why the need to write 'gay' with a capital 'G'?

I don't know what his point is, but I find the term "gay child" disturbing.

To be honest it's understandable if any gay rugby player is reluctant to come out even in this day and age. Remember around '97 Tim Wilby receiving a lot of verbal abuse, chants etc from Rovers fans, and he wasn't even a player!

(was Hull's Chairman at the time).

Think the same happened with Paul Eastwood, but this was slightly before my time so can't remember it personally.

The whole thing with Paul Eastwood stemmed from the time he was allegedly caught in the bogs at Willerby with his trousers round his ankles. George Michael pinched the idea from him. S'troo.

And George Michael was rumoured to have had a fling with Wilby, small world eh.

Its been a big thread about agreeing with alternative sexualities.
Most falling over themselves to say the "right thing"

My thoughts right or wrong are this.
I don't care if someone is gay or not.
If a person is gay that's their thing.
Several people I have worked with when it was known they were gay became a bit overt and wanted to discuss their encounters and lifestyle far more than the straight people.
Some want equality and others want something more than that.
Plenty of Gay people that have good jobs and high disposable income look down on the "straights"

Live and let live I say.

I assume you have evidence of these two statements? Or at least examples?

I too also have a thing for Jon Wilkin but mine involves slapping his face

What with?

A wall mounted Sky TV camera in the Old Trafford dressing room...?

That was disgraceful. Should have replayed the game after that.

Wasn't a Gateshead Thunder player on the front cover of a 'gay' magazine a few months back?

It was the same funky named player who has just signed for Wrexham Welshboyos RLFC isn't it? Youthquest or something.

Nick F***ing Youngquest , why that has any relevance , or why anybody even cares who is or who isn't I dont know , On the radio today the player in question stated that he was pleased to hear that most people had replied " so what " on hearing of his coming out , that is the point , nobody cares , it is a non story , end of

Nick Youngquest? He's Australian, which makes any discussion of him on this thread null and void.

Said the ' Sexual deviant '

Touche, my flatcap-wearing friend

Gay, gay, gay, gay.

You seem to be particularly keen to impress upon us all how 'unbothered' you are about his gayness. Something rattling around the closet there perhaps

Youngquest isn't gay.
He's married or engaged to some model I think I read.

Gareth Thomas was married...

The only thing Starbug is interested in are bonus points. The man's obsessed with them. He's a bonusexual.

If we were at a point where really truly 'nobody cares' whether league players or anyone else is gay then this thread wouldn't even exist. As it is we're a long way from there, and it will - rather sadly - continue to help if high profile sportspeople (or other celebrities) come out in a public way.

All the gay people I've known have had huge problems at various times from straight people - including their own families. One guy I know has not even spoken to his father for over 20 years as his dad simply refuses to acknowledge him. Whilst this sort of rubbish continues - let alone violence and the rest targeting people for simply being gay - we should all applaud the Gareth Thomas' of the world.

There is usually an area in a City that is a Gay spot, in Sydney its Oxford street there where plenty of signs that straights were discouraged to the point where staff were commenting on "breeders" in a derogatory way.
Search for it it was in mainstream papers.
I used to work in many gay nightclubs and even the Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney.
It was not normal sexual behavior at all, Drums of Condoms and lube........
It was Dantes inferno.
The Plummer was on $200 an hour and at first I thought he was creaming it, afterwards I realized $400 an hour was not enough.

Quote ="Jonesy"There is usually an area in a City that is a Gay spot, in Sydney its Oxford street. It was not normal sexual behavior at all, Drums of Condoms and lube........ '" Oxford Street is very nice, I had a couple of good nights there! and as for the Condoms and Lube, I see nothing wrong with it if charity's wish to offer free protection to people. www.bumboy.org.uk/ a site run by the Terrence Higgins Trust. tells people the facts, using explicit words.

Quote ="Jonesy"There is usually an area in a City that is a Gay spot, in Sydney its Oxford street. It was not normal sexual behavior at all, Drums of Condoms and lube........ '" Oxford Street is very nice, I had a couple of good nights there! and as for the Condoms and Lube, I see nothing wrong with it if charity's wish to offer free protection to people. www.bumboy.org.uk/ a site run by the Terrence Higgins Trust. tells people the facts, using explicit words.

Shame the average Chav doesn't attend place where there are free jonnys. Might a few less teen pregnancies and ex servicemen might be able to get council housing!