Casey Stoney

Casey Stoney is a 33-year-old English football player. In 2012, she was made Captain on the England GB Team and competed in the 2012 Olympics. She came out as gay in 2014 during an interview with BBC Sport and was featured in The Independent on Sunday’s Rainbow List in 2014 and 2015. She has spoken openly about being a same-sex parent with her partner Megan Harris, with whom she had twins Teddy and Tilly. She is part of Stonewall’s Sports Role Models programme.

Heather Stanning

Heather is a 31-year-old English professional rower, member of the Great Britain Olympic Rowing Team and straight ally. She is also a Captain in the 32nd Regiment Royal Artillery, but was given dispensation to participate in the Olympics by the British Army. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List for her Services to Rowing.

Keegan Hirst

Forty-five-year-old John Amaechi OBE is a psychologist, high-performance executive coach, New York Times best-selling author and former NBA basketball player. In 2007, John became the first professional basketball player to openly identify as gay, and told his story in his memoir Man in the Middle. During his NBA career, John founded the Amaechi Basketball Centre in Manchester. He currently works with businesses, educational organisations and philanthropic organisations; to help them assess, manage, maximise and retain their human capital.

Mark McAdam

Mark McAdam is an English television presenter and is best-known for hosting Sky Sports News. Mark had worked as a Sky Sports correspondent for seven years before coming out as gay in an interview with Gay Times magazine. He revealed that he had battled with being gay for years and believes that gay footballers don’t come out “because of the fear”. He told the magazine: “I don’t know of any other gay sports reporters. There’s nothing to compare this to.”

Nicola Adams

Nicola Adams is a 33-year-old professional British boxer and the first ever female boxing champion at both the Olympic and Commonwealth Games. She was also the first openly LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing Gold medal. She was awarded an MBE for services to boxing in 2013 and was named the most influential LGBT person in Britain by The Independent newspaper in 2012. She actively promotes LGBT Inclusion in sport, with events such as ‘Team Pride: Levelling the LGBT Playing Field’.

Nigel Owens

Nigel Owens is a 44-year-old Welsh international Rugby Union referee and has covered the 2007, 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup Finals. He came out as gay in 2007 in an interview with Wales on Sunday and became the Gay Sports Personality of the Year at the Stonewall Awards. He also revealed his struggle with his sexuality in a documentary aired on BBC Wales. On being gay in rugby, he said: “Discrimination of any kind has no place in our sport or society. I have been accepted by 99% of people in rugby, but there will always be that 1%.”

John Amaechi

Forty-five-year-old John Amaechi OBE is a psychologist, high-performance executive coach, New York Times best-selling author and former NBA basketball player. In 2007, John became the first professional basketball player to openly identify as gay, and told his story in his memoir Man in the Middle. During his NBA career, John founded the Amaechi Basketball Centre in Manchester. He currently works with businesses, educational organisations and philanthropic organisations; to help them assess, manage, maximise and retain their human capital.

Sam Stanley

Sam Stanley is a 24-year-old Rugby Union player for England Sevens international. Sam came out as gay in an interview with The Sunday Times in 2015, where he revealed he had hidden his relationship with his partner, Lawrence Hicks, for five years.
On being gay in sport, he said, “It is going to be an issue until more people and athletes come out, until it is not an issue at all. It might take years but, hopefully, lots of people will find the courage.”