Former New Zealand Test player Heath Davis has become the country’s first male international cricketer to publicly speak about being gay
was the former England wicketkeeper Steven Davies in 2011.he told The Spinoff“I went to a few bars and things privately, just to see what life was like. You’re on the other side of the world, no one’s going to know you,” he said. But he left that part of his life there. “There was a lot of that, keeping your personal life separate.”He guessed some of his teammates knew he was gay before he told a couple of them in 1997 but he was never questioned about it.
Davis is now on a new journey – one that exists in tension with his sexuality. “I’m living single, part of a group of other men as a Christian group.”international study on homophobia in sport Former Wellington Firebirds player, Stephen Mather, said Davis told him about his sexuality in 1997, when there were no other outwardly gay men playing first class cricket at that time.
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