AFL’s first publicly gay player calls for respect in Crows-Pies match

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Four months after becoming the first current or former AFL player to publicly come out as gay, Leigh Ryswyk is urging fans not to boo the Collingwood player targeted by Crow Izak Rankine’s homophobic slur. Newsiline summarises this report from ABC News Australia and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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