For the first time, pro baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer has an out gay male player unr ntract.
Contents:
- TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
- EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED
- THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
- COLLEGE & PROFSNAL ATHLET WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib publicly me out June 2021, makg him the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL. * best gay athletes of all time *
This was when homosexualy wasn't jt discrimated agast— was nsired a disease and, many stat, a crime to be gay. On natnal televisn, live om Madison Square Garn, Griffh—reportedly after Benny "Kid" Paret slung homophobic slurs at him the rg—btally beat Paret so badly he died om his juri 10 days later. Privately, he was known as the first openly gay MLB player, eventually g out fully 1982.
EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED
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After g out as gay and troducg his partner to the world as the first gay uple to be featured People magaze, Wadll ed his platform and public persona to found the Gay Olympic Gam 1982, tend to act as a safe space for Olympic level athlet to pete whout fear or stigma of their sexualy.
After the Olympics sued him for g the word Olympics, was changed to simply the Gay Gam, which is still played every four years to this day. More than his succsful reer, Smh, after he retired, moved to Texas and opened a gay bar lled The Boathoe.
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
* best gay athletes of all time *
In his 1977 memoir "The David Kopay Story, " Kopay talks about the eply paful secret of beg gay the NFL and what was like to hi om his iends and loved on. After g out as gay at the 1994 Gay Gam, Louganis took a step further a year later and publicly announced his AIDS diagnosis.
COLLEGE & PROFSNAL ATHLET WHO ARE OPENLY GAY
Guillme Cizeron is the sixth gay man to w Olympic gold figure skatg. * best gay athletes of all time *
Tuaolo was one of the first handfuls of former NFL football players to e out as gay.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
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He has ntued his advocy work to this day, cludg ttifyg before Mnota's Senate Judiciary Commtee to exprs his arnt opposn to an anti-gay marriage bill that had e before the dais. About a after he retired, Bean me out as gay, and acrdg to his webse, he is the only openly gay MLB player (current or former) still alive.