Two gay former NFL players talk about the importance of the league’s support, as most fans seem to unrstand the gture.
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Throughout his NFL reer and time playg football at Cal, O’Callaghan hid he was gay, assumg everyone football would reject him if they knew.
He didn’t thk he uld ever live as an out gay man. Another popular meme has been potg out that another team’s fans are so gay (bee beg gay is bad) that they mt love Pri month:. “It’s a shame for people to reject the NFL for embracg the gay muny, ” Rohrer said.
“The gay muny is a huge supporter of all sports, there are a lot of gay athlet every sport, football beg one of them. It mak no sense for people to be upset at the league for showg some pri and rpect for the ex-players the NFL who are gay. O’Callaghan was quick to pot out that, while ’s important to ntue to pot to rners of homophobic nonsense sports, this don’t mean a gay NFL player would be rejected by the league, s teams or most fans.
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“A lot of people are gog to say this is proof pro sports aren’t ready for gay athlet, but I thk ’s proof the NFL is ready, ” O’Callaghan said. CHICAGO (AP) — When to baseball and LGBTQ+ clivy, Billy Bean often flash back to his playg his reer whout tellg his parents about his life as a closeted gay ballplayer. And Lat Ameri where many view homosexualy as a s.
Almost 80 years after Jackie Robson broke the majors’ lor barrier a landmark moment for the Amerin Civil Rights Movement, the duelg exprsns of LGBTQ+ support and pop-up opposn relled the qutn of when MLB might wele s first active openly gay player — a barrier already cleared by the NBA and NFL. “If somebody here lled a meetg and me out as gay, I thk everybody would embrace that, have their back and lerally jt move on and foc on wng the gam, which is really the important thg and what matters, ” Milwkee Brewers outfielr and 2018 NL MVP Christian Yelich said. Anrson Comás, a mor league pcher the Whe Sox anizatn, announced that he was gay an Instagram post Febary.