Footballer: Liam Davis Comes Out As Gay

<p>Liam Davis the highest profile footballer to date, has come out in a newspaper interview.</p> <p>by Newsdesk | 14th January 2014</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4604324130.png" width="460" height="460" alt="Liam Davis | Twitter" title="Liam Davis | Twitter"/></p> <p></p><p>• Liam Davis is a midfielder for Gainsborough Trinity</p><p>• Is the highest profile out player in Football</p><p>• Came out in the Lincolnshire Echo</p><p></p><p>Another sportsperson has made the leap and come out as gay. Liam Davis is a midfielder for Gainsborough Trinity. </p><p></p><p>Gainsborough Trinity is a semi-pro club.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Speaking to the Lincolnshire Echo he said:</p><p></p><p>'Now, with football played so much from the top level down to non-league, there has to be more than one, statistics say that. So what that says to me there must be some who are not comfortable to come out.</p><p></p><p>'At the age of 23 I like to think that I've got a good number of years left in the game and a lot of time to make a stand.</p><p></p><p>'I personally hope that over the next 10 years I'm not the only gay footballer out there. Nobody wants to be forced out, but I hope they can look and see there is someone out there who has done it.</p><p>I hope we can get to a stage where it is not a bad thing, that there is no problem and people just get on with it.'</p><p></p><p>Talking about his coming out to his team mates Davis said:</p><p></p><p>'The goalkeeper Phil Barnes brought it up with me at the bar. I don't know if it was a bit of Dutch courage that made me talk about it, but I think the way Phil asked helped as well. He did it in a jokey way which broke the ice and that was good.</p><p></p><p>'I didn't know if people knew. I had intended to just get on with playing football. There had been questions like, ‘have you got a girlfriend', and I'd just say ‘no', because it was the truth, so I had a suspicion that they might have an idea. Then it turned out they all knew from the first day I was at training.</p><p></p><p>'That is the one thing I will say I really enjoy about playing for Gainsborough, is that it is a very close knit group of lads.'</p><p></p><p>Last week a former pro footballer <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/Former-Aston-Villa-Football-Player-Comes-Out-As-Gay/7269118">Thomas Hitzlsperger came out as gay</a> - and a <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/Brazillian-Olympic-Diving-Hopeful-Inspired-By-Tom-Daley-To-Come-Out/7303041">Brazillian Olympic Diver hopefully Ian Matos came out over the weekend</a>. </p><p></p><p> </p>