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Pascal Erlachner is happy about the orlik-outing.
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He himself came out in December 2017.
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And broke a taboo in Swiss football.
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Orlik’s Outing makes waves.
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He now wants to concentrate fully on the sport of swinging.
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Curdin Orlik breaks with one of the largest taboos in top Swiss sport. The 27-year-old Bernese top writer comes out in the “Magazin” of the Tagesanzeiger, says: “I always knew that I was gay.” This makes Orlik the first active, male top athlete who is committed to his homosexuality. Who would have thought that: of all people, an athlete from the more conservative swinging scene bravely goes ahead! “In the world I come from, being gay isn’t considered the most normal thing in the world,” says Orlik.
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“It is incredibly great that he has outed himself,” says Pascal Erlachner. “The fact that he, as an active vibrator, has the courage to stand up and say:” I am gay “is admirable. Curdin Orlik is a huge role model. »
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As one of his motivations for his outing, Orlik states that he has pushed out who he really is for far too long. That he finally wanted to be free. “When I read that, I almost had tears in my eyes,” says Erlachner. He knows from his own experience how much conviction and courage it takes to come out. In December 2017, the then top referee shook up football in Switzerland with his outing in “SonntagsBlick”. As the first active in Swiss football. «I had so many positive reactions back then, on the football pitch and next to it. I felt relieved and have never looked back. I have never heard a negative comment – not even in the hectic of the square. I hope that Curdin will do the same. I don’t know what speaks against it. He is still the same person and the same vibrator as before. »
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A year and a half after his outing, Erlachner resigned as an arbitrator in May 2019.
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To date, he has remained the only active player in Swiss professional football who has publicly stood up for his homosexuality. «I also didn’t expect other gays to come out after me. My wish was to open the topic with my openness and to trigger a public discussion. »
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Can you expect more coming-outs in top Swiss sport thanks to the courage of Curdin Orlik? Erlachner: «Of course, it would be nice if other athletes no longer had to pretend and hide. We’ll see what happens.”
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