Ian Roberts Cover -The Advocate

Ex Australian Rugby Player Ian Roberts is the cover Boy for next months Edition of the Advocate. At 41 years of age he still looks as he did when he was at the pinacle of Ruby League.

In an interview featured in the edition he mentions how he is refered as "the gay rugby player", he mentions the way casting directors in Australia have perceived him since he came out officially in 1995, becoming the only major international male athlete in team sports to come out while still playing at the elite level.

“But that’s one of the things I have no control over. I’ve been lucky to have worked professionally off and on—mostly on—since I graduated from NIDA [Sydney’s National Institute of Dramatic Art] in 2004.”

Still, he admits to the insecurities plaguing any out actor: “I’m never sure if I didn’t get the job because I’m the gay rugby player or because I wasn’t good at the audition. I wish I didn’t think that way, but I do.”
Source The Advocate