Retired Manly Sea Eagles legend and the first openly gay rugby league player Ian Roberts says he is seeing the conversation surrounding Manly’s pride jersey in a “positive light”.
He said it was “incredibly exciting” when he first heard Manly was going to design a pride jersey, being introduced with
the “right intentions”.“It’s probably not the way we wanted this conversation to start, but we’re having this conversation now.”
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