Bild<\/a>). \u201cAnd I don\u2019t understand why it\u2019s even being discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIf that happened at Bayern Munich,\u201d he added, \u201cthe person wouldn\u2019t face any problems whatsoever, but rather support. If he were attacked in the media or online, we would all defend him, as always.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u201d in this context refers to St. Pauli U-19 coach Christian Dobrick, who came out as gay recently. In an RTL interview, Dobrick said that \u201cin professional football, gay people are treated like aliens\u201d.<\/p>\n
To this day, not a single active male professional footballer has come out in the top three German leagues. The topic of homosexuality remains a taboo subject in men\u2019s professional football. Despite this, Bayern Munich have long made strong strides toward being inclusive to the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n
The comments made by Hoene\u00df do not come in a vacuum, they are made by the representative of a club that has lit its stadium up in the colors of the rainbow, and has a prominent queer ultra group called Queerpass Bayern. A rainbow flag can always be seen flying in the S\u00fcdkurve on matchdays, and club captain Manuel Neuer has regularly worn a rainbow armband in the past.<\/p>\n
As for Uli himself, this is perfectly on brand. While he has a reputation for making ill-advised comments to the media, he has always had a compassionate streak and he wears it on his sleeve. While it\u2019s unlikely to move the needle on homophobia in football, the support of a man like Hoene\u00df can go a long way to making closeted gay players feel a little bit safer about coming out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uli Hoene\u00df is the kind of man who speaks his mind. So when he says something, you know…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[71730,403,99],"class_list":["post-551704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich-front-office","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}