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As Derek Carr readi to leave the Rairs, let’s cheer aga how he reacted when Carl Nassib me out as gay.

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CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY

Carl Nassib, a fensive leman wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay. * gay carl *

Carl Nassib, a fensive leman wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay.

I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

He said a statement acpanyg the vio that he had agonized over the cisn to announce he was gay for 15 years. Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay NBA player when he sued up for the Brooklyn Nets 2014, was cheerg Nassib on social media. “As an acplished athlete who is now the first out gay active player the NFL, Carl Nassib’s story will not only have a profound impact on the future of LGBTQ visibily and acceptance sports, but sends a strong msage to so many LGBTQ people, pecially youth, that they too n one day grow up to be and succeed as a profsnal athlete like him, ” the statement said.

LET’S CELEBRATE DEREK CARR’S EMBRACE OF AN OPENLY GAY TEAMMATE, CARL NASSIB

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Pro Football Hall of Famer Warren Moon add to the chos of people proud of him, and the former NFL and CFL quarterback add that he played wh some guys who were gay but didn’t feel fortable g out. In 2014, Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be selected the NFL draft when the St. But when the msage is sent by the NFL’s first openly gay player, do have meang.

Nassib, 30, me out as gay June 2021 while wh the Las Vegas Rairs. For about a year after g out, Nassib was very guard about his private life and beg gay, givg very few terviews bis some Q&A wh beat reporters. What once seemed nceivable — a gay NFL player celebratg his boyiend’s birthday — is now nsired cute and enarg, as wnsed by the 56, 000 lik Nassib’s Instagram post got, along wh hundreds of ments.

Carl is havg a tough time time school after his sophomore year. As LGBTQ sports fans, we’ll always remember Carr fondly for how he treated an openly gay teammate.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. * gay carl *

When then-Rairs leman Carl Nassib me out as gay the summer of 2021, his teammate Carr spoke several tim about supportg Nassib even though he said he was not sure how everyone on the team felt. Some of Carr’s referenc to Nassib’s beg gay as a “liftyle” showed ignorance, but the sum total of his ments over several terviews h the right note.

An NFL roster has 53 players, om diverse backgrounds and wh many wh strong Christian beliefs (some om nomatns where beg gay may have been preached agast om the pulp), so wasn’t a slam dunk that Nassib would be as wele as he was.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The 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. * gay carl *

His beg gay was — a good sense — a non-story and we have people like Carr to thank for that.

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

Carl Nassib, a fensive leman wh the Las Vegas Rairs, has played the NFL for five years and said he “agonized over the cisn” to announce that he is gay. * gay carl *

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U.

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Rairs DE Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay, announcg the news an Instagram post Monday while pledgg $100,000 to the Trevor Project. * gay carl *

Kev Maxen me out as gay an terview wh Outsports. -based profsnal league to e out as gay.

CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY, PLEDG $100,000 TO TREVOR PROJECT

Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib publicly me out June 2021, makg him the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL. * gay carl *

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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.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN

Carl Nassib this week beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. And wh his announcement, the Las Vegas Rairs fensive end jos a small group of openly gay men profsnal sports. * gay carl *

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. 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. L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history.

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“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.

CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY, PLEDG $100,000 TO TREVOR PROJECT

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.

He played for ne seasons wh the San Francis 49ers and four other teams the 1960s and 1970s, and has sce bee an activist and an ambassador for the Gay Gam, a quadrennial sportg Simmons was the send former player to announce that he was gay, dog so 1992 after his reer wh the Giants and Washgton Football Team had end.

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