Adelaide forward Izak Rankine has extended an olive branch to the LGBTQIA+ community in the wake of the homophobic slur that saw him suspended for four AFL games.

Rankine missed the last game of the home and away season, as well as both of the Crows’ losing finals, and will not return until Round 2 next year as part of the ban he received for directing a homophobic slur towards Collingwood’s Isaac Quaynor in August.

His omission was a major blow for the Crows, who became the first minor premiers in the AFL era to be eliminated from finals in straight sets.

With a storm of media and attention following him in the wake of the slur, Rankine fled the country for an overseas training camp on the slim glimmer of hope for a possible grand final berth, were Adelaide to lose their first fi

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