ESPN Rad's Steve Mason ed Atlanta Falns NFL Combe qutns to e out as gay - Outsports

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• ESPN RAD'S STEVE MASON ED ATLANTA FALNS NFL COMBE QUTNS TO E OUT AS GAY
• ESPN RAD'S STEVE MASON OUT AS GAY ON-AIR
• WHEN THIS GAY SPORTS RAD HOST ME OUT, SAVED HIS REER
• ESPN RAD'S JARED MAX REVEALS HE'S GAY ON AIR, FOLLOWS ANNOUNCEMENT OF RICK WELTS & WILL SHERIDAN

ESPN RAD'S STEVE MASON ED ATLANTA FALNS NFL COMBE QUTNS TO E OUT AS GAY

He hasn't kept his sexual orientatn a secret om people his personal life, and many his profsnal life have known for years that Mason is gay.

He never said anythg anti-gay, and he was always very supportive of LGBT issu and . Shortly after Rajon Rondo lled NBA referee Bill Kennedy a gay slur, Mason rerd a podst wh Ramona Shelburne, openg up about his partner of 10 years and hidg behd the microphone all of the years. For the often wise-crackg rad host wh a ep love and knowledge for Los Angel sports, makg some announcement -- "I have somethg to talk about, and that's the fact that I'm gay" -- jt wasn't...

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ESPN RAD'S STEVE MASON OUT AS GAY ON-AIR

For Mason, like so many other gay people sports, sexual orientatn is jt one of their inti. That he is gay will be a blurb on the 72nd le of his Wikipedia page.

Steve Mason, of ESPN Rad Los Angel, me out as gay Friday over the, who is the -owner of the Cémas Palme d'Or Palm Dert wh "Breakg Bad" star Bryan Cranston, me out such a way, where you wouldn't really have noticed unls you were already aware of his 's moment me when he and -host John Ireland took part  a mock terview based on 'appropriate' qutns asked by the Atlanta Falns regards to NFL prospect Eli Zeigler, -founr at said his post that many people close to Mason already knew he was gay, but Mason never felt pelled enough to let the public , until the past few years, former NBA player Jason Colls and NFL draftee Michael Sam have e out as gay, potg to a change ti for profsnal male athlet and those who report on them. One year ago today, a newspaper New Orleans broke a new story a three-month-long saga that had generated ternatnal tert: Rad statn WWL fired an out gay host of a sports talk program, who was the target of an anti-gay slur on Twter.

WHEN THIS GAY SPORTS RAD HOST ME OUT, SAVED HIS REER

Until he was termated, Dunlap was seen as a victim of homophobia. Except for his tweeted nials and statements by his attorneys, Dunlap himself remaed silent, until December, when he tweeted that he had evince of rampant “homophobia, racism and misogyny” at WWL. Ten years ago, ESPN Rad host Jared Max had a qutn: Were sports fans ready to hear an openly gay man read the sports news?

He opened the word document stg his puter, and told his listeners he was gay.

ESPN RAD'S JARED MAX REVEALS HE'S GAY ON AIR, FOLLOWS ANNOUNCEMENT OF RICK WELTS & WILL SHERIDAN

“I never wanted to be the gay sportsster, ” he said. For the next 16 years, Max proceed to live a double life: gay when he went out, and straight the rad stud. The night before his big announcement, he read a quote om Charl Barkley, who said he had gay teammat, and did not re at all.