The web is celebrating Jake Daniels, the 17-year-old Blackpool footballer who came out as gay this week.
Even Boris Johnson praised him.
The thing is seen as a breakthrough, he is a trailblazer to freedom.
But is that so?
Has professional football for men, otherwise better known as a museum of old rituals, freed itself from its traditional straight shackles?
Well, clubs express themselves liberally, captain's armbands and corner flags in rainbow colors are no longer noticeable.
And in French football, not wearing a rainbow jersey on anti-homophobia day is even considered misconduct.
But: The courageous Daniels is only the second among the tens of thousands of current football professionals in the world to confess to his homosexuality.
He is only the second in English football history - the first being 30 years ago.
The inhibition threshold seems to be huge.
The gap between confessions and reality has seldom been as wide as with this topic.
And in the fall it's off to the World Cup in Qatar, where homosexuality is forbidden by law.