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We rank all 32 NFL teams based on how gay they are. Not surprisgly, the Packers are tops. We hope.

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MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

Carl Nassib is the first to ever play a down as openly gay, but the rt are still trailblazers. * most gay nfl team *

Kev Maxen, the assistant strength and ndng ach, has publicly e out as gay.

NORTH AMERI’S FOUR BIGGT PRO SPORTS LEAGU HAVE BEEN AROUND A BED 398 YEARS. THEY’VE HAD TWO OPENLY GAY ACTIVE PLAYERS

Carl Nassib is one of only two openly gay active players the history of the four biggt North Amerin sports leagu – the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL. Experts say homophobia sports begs at the youth level. * most gay nfl team *

Fourth-year Joshua Kelley and Isaiah Spiller, who is enterg his sophomore mpaign, will be battlg out for the spot. The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly.

16 and the first one to e out as gay while on an active roster. Over the years, Outsports has known of a few other players who are gay but have never e out, even when retired. Jenks is gay and this was the the first time he wily discsed his sexual orientatn.

THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY

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The Las Vegas Rairs fensive end is now jt one of two openly gay active players the history of the four biggt North Amerin sports leagu (the Natnal Football League, Natnal Basketball Associatn, Major League Baseball and the Natnal Hockey League). It’s not that gay men aren’t playg profsnal sports, experts say.

Homophobic language is still a regular feature of playg on a boys’ sports team the US and abroad, Denison’s rearch shows – one of his studi found that more than half of the ice hockey and gby players he terviewed said they’d ed slurs.

HOW GAY IS YOUR FAVORE NFL ANCHISE?

Players on 22 NFL teams have already had an out gay teammate, cludg six players wh the Arizona Cardals. * most gay nfl team *

Regular exposure to slurs or stereotyp eventually rerc among players that their succs as an athlete is tied to an ia of masculy that exclus gay men, he said.

THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE

The league, fans and teammat have shown support for gay and bisexual players. So why is so hard for to rema dog the job we love? * most gay nfl team *

Denison scribed what he lls a “cycle of excln” that begs when a boy hears ach or olr players e homophobic language and observ a “posive rponse” to that behavr – maybe they lgh at each other, or the ach don’t challenge them, he said. That sends the msage that homophobic language is harmls and OK to e – and cements the assumptn that all members of the team are heterosexual.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

Gay players on those teams may also e the language as a shield to hi their sexualy and nform wh their team, Denison said. “We often fd that male ach ntue to e homophobic language and teach nformy to this tough mascule athlete inty that don’t really exist, ” he said.

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There have been 11 known gay players NFL history - Outsports .

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