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The Tampa Bay Bucneers signed fensive end Carl Nassib — pro football's first openly gay, active player — brgg him back to where he livered two of his

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BUCNEERS' CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL STAR, SAYS 'I'M NOT HIDG'

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NFL star Carl Nassib is speakg ndidly a new terview about the impact of beg the first openly gay active player the league.

My whole thg is, I'm a football player who is gay. ' Bee all anyone's gonna remember about me is that I'm gay, " he said of his thkg at the time.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYER NFL, RETURNG TO THE TAMPA BAY BUCNEERS

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I don't choose every day to be gay.

And this rare terview — only his send sce g out — Nassib said the only reason he's talkg about beg gay is to ntue supportg the Trevor Project, a nonprof aimed at helpg LGBTQ youth wh suici preventn and crisis unselg. The Tampa Bay Bucneers signed fensive end Carl Nassib — pro football's first openly gay, active player — brgg him back to where he livered two of his most productive seasons, officials said, then of the Las Vegas Rairs, me out a ltle more than a year ago and ma one of the NFL's most memorable early season plays, sackg the Baltimore Ravens' Lamar Jackson and forcg a fumble a dramatic Monday Night Football victory for the Silver & will be Nassib’s seventh season the NFL and his send stt Tampa Bay, where he played 2018 and 2019, rerdg 6.

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75 ln this season had he returned to Las signg by Tampa Bay uld be as ccial a moment the history of gay acceptance wh sports as Nassib's g out last year, acrdg to Cyd Zeigler, -founr of a team, pecially a high-profile Super Bowl ntenr like Tampa, to sign an openly gay player is "huge, " Ziegler wrote.

CARL NASSIB MET THE MEDIA AND MOST OF THE QUTNS WERE ABOUT FOOTBALL, NOT BEG GAY. HOORAY FOR THAT.

The acquisn shows that Nassib's on-the-field productn tmps any lgerg homophobia, acrdg to Ziegler, who ntend that "people claimg that men’s pro sports broadly hate gay athlet (and y, this is still a claim) simply have no leg to stand on. PREVIOUS: Mystery man Carl Nassib voted Bucs team pta He beme the first openly gay, active player the NFL.

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Bucneers' Carl Nassib, First Openly Gay NFL Star, Is 'Not Hidg' .

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