Outspoken footballer and QPR midfielder Joye Barotn has spoken out in support of gay footballers. He also reveals his uncle is gay during BBC Three’s documentary BRITAIN’S GAY FOOTBALLERS.
The Sun has the story:
Merseyside-born Barton, 29, speaks out in a TV documentary screened tonight on BBC Three.
He tells the show Britain’s Gay Footballers: “It’s a subject quite close to my heart because my dad’s youngest brother, the youngest of my uncles, is gay. And I didn’t know for a long, long time.
“He thought because of the society that we were brought up in, which was quite working class, that it would be frowned upon or that we would disown him.
“So for a lot of years he was in turmoil and was resenting himself for the fact he had these feelings.
“I was like, ‘I love you for you — not for the fact that you are straight or bisexual or all different manner of things. I love you because you’re you.’ ”
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