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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.
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.
EACH OF AMERI’S BIG 5 SPORTS CURRENTLY HAS AN OUT GAY MAN THE PROS. THAT’S NEVER HAPPENED
* best gay athletes of all time *
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.
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.
Tuaolo was one of the first handfuls of former NFL football players to e out as gay. 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.
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 39 GAY OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS. HERE’S THE LIST
For the first time, pro baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer has an out gay male player unr ntract. * best gay athletes of all time *
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.
Washgton Wizards center Jason Pl Colls broke metaphoril ground when he beme the first active male athlete om any of the major Amerin sports leagu to e out as gay a 2013 terview wh Sports Illtrated.
Speakg to the outlet, Colls mentned was never his tentn to be the only athlete to e out as gay while still playg, but that he was happy to be able to start the nversatn.
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 *
She also left a powerful mark on the sport when she me out as gay a 2005 New York Tim profile. Amid her already imprsive reer, she beme the most proment North Amerin athlete to e out a team sport as gay while playg at the time. As the first openly gay player drafted to the NFL, his reer end quickly; Sam retired 2015.
In 2009, he me out as gay while still playg profsnally, makg him the first the sport to do so.
Carl Nassib ma history 2021 by beg the first openly gay man to actively play the NFL. In June 2021, NFL fensive end Carl Nassib me out as gay a vio posted to his Instagram, addg he donated $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, an anizatn that foc on suici preventn LGBTQ youth after he stggled wh his sexualy for 15 years. In 2014, Michael Sam me out as gay an terview wh ESPN and ma history that same year.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
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"Sce Febary and my big announcement, this has been a whole [lot of] speculatn of the first openly gay football player, but you know what? The athlete quickly ma a name for herself a seri of TV terviews, where she voiced her support of women's rights and LGBTQ rights as an openly gay woman. "I thk female athlet, general, are at the foreont of every prott general bee we're gay, we're women, we're women of lor, we're sort of everythg all at one time, " Rapoe told NBC news 2019.
The thgs you hear as a child—every time you hear someone say 'f----t' or talk bad about a gay guy, or see somethg on TV and make fun of that. " He scribed hidg his sexualy while playg for the Utah Jazz, but said some teammat who spected he was gay were welg about a 2007 terview on "Outsi the L, " Amaechi, who played five seasons the NBA, said he thought there were other gay players the league, but said 's "terrifyg" for some to e out. Robbie Rogers played soccer England until 2013 when he announced he was gay and leavg the sport.
'"But a few months later, he joed the Los Angel Galaxy team and beme the first openly gay man to play a major US profsnal league. ""I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playg a major Amerin team sport. "In 2016, he dited a match to the victims of the gay nightclub shootg at Pulse Orlando, Florida.