Mitch Brown, AFL’s first publicly out bisexual player, appears in steamy music video for ANDY’s “Can’t Wait”

# What happened

Mitch Brown, the former Australian Football League player who publicly came out as bisexual in 2025, appears in a sport-themed music video for Australian pop artist ANDY's single "Can't Wait." Brown, 37, plays the artist's on-screen love interest in a promo that explicitly stages queer attraction in a locker-room/field context.

# Who else appears

The video also features Ian Roberts, the former rugby league player who came out as gay in 1995. Roberts appears in the role of an older coach. The pairing intentionally links two high-profile sports figures who publicly disclosed their sexualities at very different moments in Australian sporting history.

# Why the video matters to Brown

Brown told Rolling Stone Australia that his participation had personal meaning. He said he spent much of his playing career being careful about what he said and how he behaved because of assumptions others might make. In the "Can't Wait" video he ends up on a footy field — in a different code — kissing another man for a music video, which he described as a "nice full-circle feeling."

# How ANDY described the shoot

ANDY, the pop artist behind the song, said that upon first playback everyone in the room went quiet. He said the scene felt "very real, very raw and very beautiful," suggesting the music video aimed for emotional authenticity rather than a purely titillating gag.

# What the video shows and frames

The clip is sports‑themed and leans into the homoerotic subtext frequently present but rarely explored openly in locker-room narratives. By putting two former professional athletes at the centre of that imagery — one who came out in 1995 and one who came out in 2025 — the video creates a specific line of continuity about changing visibility for queer people in Australian sport.

# How this fits with public coverage

PinkNews covered the release with context about Brown's historic status as the first AFL player to come out publicly as bisexual. Other outlets, such as Queerty, have similarly highlighted the video's crossover of queer celebrity, sport and music. The story has drawn attention partly because it stages a same-sex kiss on what looks like a sporting ground and because both Brown and Roberts are known, public figures with prior coming-out stories.

# Immediate takeaways for readers

• The video is explicitly about queer desire within a sports setting and uses two real-world sports figures to stage that narrative.

• ANDY and those present at playback described the filmed moment as quiet, affecting, and authentic rather than merely provocative.

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