What society can learn from AFLW Pride Round as footy stars open up about their experience
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What society can learn from AFLW Pride Round as footy stars open up about their experience

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Collingwood captain Brianna Davey was 16 when she came out. Seven Manly Sea Eagles players boycotted one of their matches in 2022 over their team's decision to wear a gay pride jersey and a year later the Cairns Taipans opted not to wear the Champion Pride Round jerseys due to a "barrage of abuse". "We're in sort of a little bit of a limelight, especially around Pride Round," Davey said. "For probably the older generation, just educating people on Pride Round as they're doing it," Gay said. "They said that's just within the Hawthorn realm, too, whereas they assume across the whole competition people would have learnt a lot from the non-binary players' experiences and gained more "acceptance, understanding and awareness".

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