Making a stand: Steven Davies came out eight years ago but international cricket clearly still has a problem in accepting homosexuality
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DEREK PRINGLE
When Steven Davies came out as gay eight years ago this month, the first cricketer to openly do so, I commented that cricket’s ‘big society’ would accept him without prejudice or opprobrium.
Well, it seems that I was wrong following Shannon Gabriel’s homophobic remarks to Joe Root during England’s final Test against West Indies in St Lucia.
Not that Root, who is married with a son, is gay....
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