The seri is gog to give viewers an -pth look at the annual Gay Bowl!
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
TV productn crews will be at Gay Bowl Phoenix this weekend to pture the personali and actn. * gay football show *
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
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay football show *
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THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
‘NFL 360’ profil five LGBTQ people wh a sports background, cludg three openly gay football players, on the impact of Nassib g out. * gay football show *
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. (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 . 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.
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.
A REALY SERI ABOUT GAY FLAG FOOTBALL PLAYERS IS COMG TO TV
* gay football show *
Brenton Metzler is a longtime TV producer and has played the Gay Bowl wh Los Angel, wng two tl.
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.
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.
TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN
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.
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.
The subject was the impact of Carl Nassib g out as gay the NFL for the Las Vegas Rairs. Matea offensive leman Jake Strer, who is gay, is one of five current or former LGBTQ athlet profiled. “When I returned to football my sophomore year after g out was bee I knew that if I qu football was jt the begng of thgs I would qu or hold myself back om bee I was gay, ” Strer told Outsports.
NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER HONORED DURG LEAGUE’S AWARD SHOW
“To fast forward to my last football game my senr year and have end wh ‘NFL 360’ there to clu me a story celebratg the first openly gay football player NFL history is still really unbelievable to me. EST, we see scen of Strer’s last game as a Matea Mtang, terspersed wh him speakg about beg gay football and what Nassib’s g out meant to him. Their experienc are universal, ways good and bad, for many LGBTQ people — Pick talkg about the pa om the ial rejectn by her mom; O’Callaghan discsg suicidal thoughts before beg rcued by a therapist; Rapoport’s touchg rellectn of g out to NFL Commissner Roger Gooll by approachg him at a Super Bowl event holdg her girliend’s hand and Gooll’s se upon seeg ; Saffold discsg growg up Black and gay on the South Si of Chigo “where there are rampant levels of homophobia” and Strer on how he ed to worry “about how bad my life might be after I me out.
“I thk 11- or 12-year-old kids playg football prr to Carl Nassib g out didn’t thk there uld be a gay football player, ” Rapoport said.
Gay Bowl XXI, this year's champnship tournament of the Natnal Gay Flag Football League, tak place this weekend Phoenix, Arizona, and acrdg to OutSports, the game and league will be featured a realy TV seri currently velopment. Produced by sports stud game1, Moore Street Productns, and Seth Greenleaf and his Greenleaf Productns, Flags will she a spotlight on gay flag football teams om around the untry. Greenleaf is a veteran Broadway producer and the straight ally quarterback of a two-time champn gay flag football team.
BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
His experienc earng the tst of his gay teammat and disverg their stori were the foc of his 2014 documentary, F(l)ag 2017, Greenleaf told Jennifer Brown on the podst Jennifer Brown Speaks his associatn wh the league started when he talked his way to a practice pick-up game he happened to walk past one day. "'Hey, would you ever nsir quarterbackg a gay football team? "When they said that to me, I was stunned bee up until that pot, I had no ia that the were gay men.