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THE BIG KICKOFF

English former professional soccer player, Thomas Beattie, rang in Pride month this year by coming out as gay, becoming the third male professional player in British sports history to come out after Justin Fashanu in 1990 and Robbie Rogers in 2013, and only the second professional soccer player from the United Kingdom to come out.

Beattie led a victorious career in soccer before sustaining a serious head injury in 2015, which forced him to end his playing career early. Now a successful entrepreneur, he is the cofounder of several companies based in

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