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Contents:

• MNOTA VIKGS PARTNER WH LOL GAY FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• VIKGS CELEBRATE GAY EMPLOYEE’S ENGAGEMENT WH VIO BOARD SHOUT-OUT
• DID THE VIKGS CUT CHRIS KLUWE FOR HIS GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISM?
• VIKGS CELEBRATE GAY EMPLOYEE’S ENGAGEMENT WH VIO BOARD SHOUT-OUT
• PRO GAY-RIGHTS FORMER NFL PLAYER SUG VIKGS TO RELEASE DISMISSAL REPORT
• MNOTA VIKGS' CHRIS KLUWE STANDS UP FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, GAY PLAYERS NFL

MNOTA VIKGS PARTNER WH LOL GAY FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE

The Mnota Vikgs have entered to a partnership and sponsorship relatnship wh the Mnota Gay Flag Football League, which was jt found earlier this year.

There is also a broar hope for partnership on both sis, and Lewellyn-Otten said he is hopeful that jot volunteer opportuni between the Vikgs and the gay league may be on the horizon. Vikgs COO Kev Warren told Outsports the team’s partnership wh the Mnota Gay Flag Football League is an important reflectn of the valu of the team.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

23 game agast the Buffalo Bills, they hosted openly gay former Vikgs player Esera Tuaolo to sg the Natnal Anthem. In 2003 the New England Patrts sent Hall of Famer Andre Tippett to do the toss at Gay Bowl III. In 2007 the New York Giants sent a staff member to speak at Gay Bowl 7.

The Patrts and Denver Brons have each been a fancial sponsor of the last two Gay Bowls, hosted their rpective ci. You n fd the Mnota Gay Flag Football League on Instagram @mngffl, on Twter @mngffl, or on their Web se.

VIKGS CELEBRATE GAY EMPLOYEE’S ENGAGEMENT WH VIO BOARD SHOUT-OUT

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DID THE VIKGS CUT CHRIS KLUWE FOR HIS GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISM?

FirstThe Rairs fensive leman me out a statement posted to his Instagram acunt on Monday, beg the first active player the league to publicly intify as gay.

VIKGS CELEBRATE GAY EMPLOYEE’S ENGAGEMENT WH VIO BOARD SHOUT-OUT

ViotranscripttranscriptCarl Nassib Be First Openly Gay Active N.

I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. Player to publicly clare that he is gay.

“I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt.

PRO GAY-RIGHTS FORMER NFL PLAYER SUG VIKGS TO RELEASE DISMISSAL REPORT

I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth.

MNOTA VIKGS' CHRIS KLUWE STANDS UP FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, GAY PLAYERS NFL

L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history. “Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L.

”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N. The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N. Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Sam left the N.

Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over. David Kopay beme the first pro football player to publicly e out as gay 1975, three years after he retired.