
Jake Daniels: Why Blackpool player's decision to come out as gay matters
CNN
It shouldn't matter. But it does.
When 17-year-old Jake Daniels publicly came out as a gay on Monday, phones pinged as the UK's media raced to push out news alerts. This is a big story.
In less than 24 hours, the young footballer has become a household name; written about on the front pages, discussed on morning television, mentioned countless times on social media, and praised by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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