{"id":895746,"date":"2026-09-17T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895746\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:02:48","slug":"bisexual-afl-star-mitch-brown-stars-in-raunchy-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895746\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisexual AFL star Mitch Brown stars in raunchy new music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img width=\"792\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Mitch-Brown-Andy.png\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mitch Brown (C) became the first AFL star to come out publicly in 2025. (ANDY)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Mitch Brown (C) became the first AFL star to come out publicly in 2025. (ANDY)<\/p>\n<p>Bisexual Australian Football League (AFL) star Mitch Brown is making waves in the sweaty, sexy music video for the new single from pop artist ANDY.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for registering! You can update your email subscriptions at any time in the<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinknews.com\/mypinknews\/account\/profile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My profile<\/a> section of your account.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Brown, 37, made history last when he became the first AFL star in history to come out publicly as bisexual, and he\u2019s proving he won\u2019t shy away from using his platform to champion queer diversity in sport.<\/p>\n<p>The sport-themed video for Australian pop artist ANDY\u2019s track \u201cCan\u2019t Wait\u201d sees Brown take centre stage alongside rugby league player Ian Roberts, who in 1995 became the first high-profile Australian sportsman to come out publicly as gay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"515\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mitch-brown-bisexual-afl.jpg\" alt=\"Mitch Brown\" class=\"wp-image-876037\"  \/>Mitch Brown made history as the AFL\u2019s first out bisexual player. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who plays ANDY\u2019s love interest in the video, told <a href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-contact-was-never-the-problem-andys-queer-reimagining-of-australian-footy-101214\/l\/love-music\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone Australia<\/a>: \u201cI spent so much of my playing career being conscious of what I said, how I behaved and what people might assume about me, and now I\u2019m on a footy field \u2013 although a different code \u2013 kissing another man for a music video. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a nice full-circle feeling to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ANDY added: \u201cHonestly, when we filmed them and watched it back for the first time, you could hear a pin drop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone could feel that we were commenting on something very real, very raw and very beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitch Brown (C) became the first AFL star to come out publicly in 2025. (ANDY) Bisexual Australian Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,80761,64,63,55,639,103727,72210,85],"class_list":["post-895746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-andy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ian-roberts","tag-mitch-brown","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}