NFL’s first openly gay player honored durg league’s award show – The Hill

Contents:

• GAY FLAG FOOTBALL TV SHOW VELOPMENT, WILL BE AT GAY BOWL THIS WEEKEND
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• A REALY SERI ABOUT GAY FLAG FOOTBALL PLAYERS IS COMG TO TV
• TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN
• NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER HONORED DURG LEAGUE’S AWARD SHOW
• BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

GAY FLAG FOOTBALL TV SHOW VELOPMENT, WILL BE AT GAY BOWL THIS WEEKEND

This Super Bowl season, even Friday Night Lights is gay. But rewatchg the show recently, as I’ve e out as queer myself, I’ve had a major revelatn: This beloved seri is gay as hell. Midsommar has a secret trans narrative, Taylor Swift is Gaylor Swift, known heterosexual Lra Dern is “a gay, ” and the two straight characters om Euphoria are totally to each other.

The first gay characters appeared on prime-time TV 1967, the pilot episo of N. Often, their arcs were nfed to storyl that fed their queerns but ltle else— was rare to see a character break out of the realms of sex and love, g out, ternalized homophobia, trma, or vlence. Te, ’s not as if gays have a monopoly on close iendships, the gged timacy of ntact sports, or a lot of the other tails.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Comg across a tweet claimg that walkg fast is gay mak me feel nnected, if superficially, to other queer people. ” I get : I mean, iced ffee is gay now? We n reimage The Sopranos as a show “for the gays” all we want, but the tth is that the only queer character, Vo Spatafore, is outed a gay bar and forced to hidg.

Queerns is exclud entirely om Breakg Bad, which, throughout s five seasons, never once addrs dience spicns that Jse or Gtavo Frg are gay.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

(In Season 6 of s spoff, Better Call Sl, we get what seems like a nfirmatn that G is gay. In the five seasons of my beloved FNL, the mor queer characters get only one storyle, an episo when the head ach’s straight dghter, Julie Taylor, acpani lbian high schooler Dev Boland to a gay bar, where they spot assistant ach Stan Trb. As a closeted gay man Texas, Coach Trb later pretends he wasn’t there when Julie tri to addrs .

A REALY SERI ABOUT GAY FLAG FOOTBALL PLAYERS IS COMG TO TV

13, 2023: This piece origally misstated that a 1971 episo of All the Fay featured the first gay character to appear on prime-time TV.

TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN

The first gay characters on prime-time TV appeared the 1967 pilot episo of N. A new realy TV show is velopment that will feature gay flag football teams om across the untry.

A uple people faiar wh the Natnal Gay Flag Football League, and s annual Gay Bowl event, are heavily volved. Brenton Metzler is a longtime TV producer and has played the Gay Bowl wh Los Angel, wng two tl.

NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER HONORED DURG LEAGUE’S AWARD SHOW

Seth Greenleaf is a theater producer New York who plays wh the New York Gay Flag Football League. He prevly produced the feature-length documentary film, F(l)ag Football, about Gay Bowl X Phoenix.

BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

The partners will aga be at Gay Bowl, aga beg hosted Phoenix, this weekend to pture the actn.

Given the attentn Las Vegas Rairs DE Carl Nassib has brought to the issue of out gay athlet football, tellg the stori of LGBTQ weekend warrrs who have helped shift perceptns their own muni, not to mentn the tense petn, uld be great TV. The New York Warrrs huddle at Gay Bowl XI. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.