Scotland's only male, gay, senior footballer Zander Murray talks about the importance of LGBTQ+ visibility in rural areas after coming up to Elgin to do talks about homophobia and inclusion in football at UHI Moray and Borough Briggs.
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00:00I think that the amount of messages and message requests and even a couple of letters that have been from people who have lived in rural areas, that people from the queer community, you know, there is other challenges that maybe people that are from big cities, for example, there's not a lot of queer spaces that they can go to on a daily basis.
00:23There's not a lot of queer people, you know, in comparison to your Glasgow's, your Edinburgh's, your Aberdeen's, Tumdee's, blah, blah, blah.
00:30So it's really nice to, you know, come up here and share my story and connect to people and relate to them.
00:37But also we clearly hear the amazing things that are going on up here as well.
00:43Obviously, Murray Pride attended, which is incredible.
00:45Obviously, they're trying to improve and start up the Murray Pride Sport Inclusion Hub, which I think is going to be an amazing initiative.
00:54It's going to definitely make the place a lot more inclusive.
00:56So, aye, I've always been passionate about trying to have, it can be difficult in some areas, and just try to win over hearts and minds,
01:05especially in areas that I've just haven't seen that many people from your community.
01:08So, aye, real privilege.