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Contents:

• THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE
• GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
• GAY FORMER DALLAS PLAYER JEFF ROHRER AND HIS HBAND WELED AT COWBOYS RNN
• THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS
• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY
• CONFSNS OF COWBOYS THE TEXAS GAY ROO
• TONY CASILLAS: I PLAYED WH GAY DALLAS COWBOYS PLAYERS THE '90S

THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE

To be sure, the Bucs have their own history wh the LGBTQ muny, namely a really gay former logo, a tight end Rob Gronkowski who’s profsed his love for the gays, and the last team RK Rsell played for a regular-season game before g out. Yet the Cowboys have a ep, rich history wh gay athlet and the LGBTQ muny that we want to highlight head to the NFL season kickoff.

GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY

The Cowboys have had at least 3 gay or bi players. Durg his time wh the team, owner Jerry Jon said him beg gay is “a ad issue. Troy Aikman mors, and his own thoughts on choosg to be gay.

GAY FORMER DALLAS PLAYER JEFF ROHRER AND HIS HBAND WELED AT COWBOYS RNN

It’s no secret that gay mors have swirled for years around quarterback-turned-TV-mentator Troy Aikman. Aikman threw fuel on the fire 2015 when he sentially said that he’s chosen to not date men, claimg that beg gay is “a liftyle people choose.

Michael Irv leads on acceptance of gay people, same-sex marriage. Years before the legalizatn of same-sex marriage or Michael Sam g out, “The Playmaker” Michael Irv talked about his love for his gay brother and his acceptance of same-sex marriage eply powerful ways. Then-Cowboys top receiver Dez Bryant talked about his mother beg gay 2010, sayg that he had stggled wh but had eventually e around to beg “fortable” wh .

THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS

Why ed to hook up gay wboys wh other gay wboys.

When the URL was up for ctn about 15 years ago, some people who wanted to create a gay datg se won the bid.

Two gay Cowboys fans were ESPN hs.

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

For a uple of years, one of Outsports most-trafficked stori was a post about two gay Cowboys fans beg highlighted by ESPN. ”The kdns of my iends and my fay and my teammat” he said, his voice tremblg, psg between words, dog everythg he uld to exprs the sudn joy that enveloped his new gay life.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 104-YEAR HISTORY

He had never, while he was playg the NFL for the Cowboys or at any pot durg his marriage to his wife, dated men, had a boyiend or had any kd of gay experience. Jeff Rohrer is a man on a missn to open hearts and mds to gay people.

For an after-work cktail at the popular gay Wt Hollywood waterg hole, Tortilla Republic. “My experience is that people are born gay, and anyone who wants to dispute that I’d be happy to have a nversatn wh them, cludg Mike Pence. At least at this pot our society, toughns is not associated wh the gay muny.

Dpe the perceptn, Rohrer isn’t sure he ever heard a gay slur the Cowboys locker room. Nothg was anti-gay.

CONFSNS OF COWBOYS THE TEXAS GAY ROO

In that nversatn The Playmaker said he believed that if a teammate had e out as gay to the rt of the Cowboys the 1990s, they would have accepted him and moved on. Whether or not there were gay slurs thrown around the locker room, there is a machismo virtually every football locker room that seems to send an unspoken msage exudg heterosexism.

In the 1970s we know that multiple Washgton football players – Dave Kopay, Jerry Smh, Ray McDonald – were gay, and that some of their teammat knew about them.

Var Hoton Oilers om the early 1990s have spoken publicly about knowg or assumg that at least two of their teammat were gay. Gay acceptance is prent football. At a time when acceptance of gay people is at an all-time high, there are still rners of our culture where homophobia ns rampant.

TONY CASILLAS: I PLAYED WH GAY DALLAS COWBOYS PLAYERS THE '90S

Beyond fdg a happs he never thought possible for himself, he now has the opportuny to break to the dark rners of that culture where anti-gay sentiment fters. If was hard to not like him when he was straight and married to a woman, for those very same people will now be hard to not like him now that he’s gay and marryg a man.

Until jt this year he uldn’t get his head around the ia that this extend fay would ever accept him as a gay man.