“I very much doubt that there is only one gay on the pitch!” : Antoine Dupont takes action on the front page of 'Têtu' against homophobia

Antoine Dupont fait la couverture du “Têtu” de l'été. MAXPPP – Alberto Gardin

"Arrêter l'homophobie" dans le rugby : Antoine Dupont démonte les clichés. 

"Ne pas avoir peur des réflexions" et casser les clichés de "virilité"for "simply help stop homophobia" in rugby: French XV star Antoine Dupont s' engages on the front page of Têtu magazine, dedicated to LGBTQ issues, in its edition to be published on Wednesday.

In January 2022, the captain of the Blues had already posed naked, under a yellow Balenciaga bathrobe, on the front page of "GQ" magazine. This time, it's his face alone, crossed out with the title "Neither taboo, nor shame", which makes the cover of & ;quot;Stubborn" of summer.

Without taboo or shame

Inside, ten pages in which the Stade Toulousain scrum-half talks about his hopes for a medal at the Paris Olympics (July 26-August 11) with the French rugby sevens team, but above all his commitment to the fight against homophobia.

Even if rugby can be seen as macho, we are very open-minded

Referring to the only French professional rugby player to have declared his homosexuality, Jérémy Clamy-Edroux (Rouen), the star of the Blues states: “I very much doubt that he there is only one gay man on the field!". "So the goal is for all players to feel comfortable with their sexuality and accepted", continues the 27-year-old player, who poses in Louis Vuitton (LVMH group), of which he is now one of the ambassadors.

"Even if rugby can be seen as macho, we are very open-minded, and today I think we are all capable of accepting the sexual orientations of each other others, he emphasizes. So we really have to repeat it, communicate about it, so that everyone feels definitively at ease."

In May 2019, the attacking midfielder of the French football team, Antoine Griezmann, had also made the cover of "Têtu". And, at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a country that punishes homosexuality, he repeated that members of the LGBTQ community would “always (his) support”.