Professional Footballer Zander Murray plays for Bonyrigg Rose, a club in the Scottish Professional Football. The striker has scored 100 plus goals and holds the club record for number of goals scored in one season. Zander’s football career began playing at Motherwell FC and Airdrie FC Academy.

In September 2022, Zander became the first Scottish professional footballer to come out as gay and the third actively playing footballer to come out in the world. Since coming out Zander has shared his story on many TV shows including Lorraine and Good Morning Britain on ITV1, GB News and Sky Sports as well many BBC shows.

Zander is also a proud ambassador for LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, and he regularly works with ‘Time for Inclusive Education,’ a Scottish LGBT inclusive education charity. Zander is a motivational speaker, and he attends workshops in schools and football academies to help young people in sports. In November 2022 he was awarded the Unicorn Of The Year award from charity ‘Somewhere: For Us’. In February Zander was named by Attitude Magazine as one of the LGBTQ trailblazers changing the world in 2023.

In March 2023 Zander’s documentary with the BBC launched entitled “Out On The Pitch” where he spoke about his own coming out story. He also interviewed many contributors to look at what is being done to tackle homophobia in Football.