A post shared by Official Jake Daniels (@officialjakedaniels)A young soccer player in the UK has come out as gay. Jake Daniels, 17, plays for the Blackpool FC in the north of England.
He told Sky News, “Now is the right time to do it. I feel like I am ready to tell people my story. I want people to know the real me.“I have been thinking for a long time about how I want to do it, when I want to do it.
I know now is the time. I am ready to be myself, be free and be confident with it all.“I can’t really put a date on it, but I was probably five or six years old when I knew I was gay.
So it’s been a long time that I have been living with the lie.“At that age you don’t really think that football and being gay doesn’t mix.