Gay Dallas Cowboys player Jeff Rohrer will marry his boyiend - Outsports

Contents:

• THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE
• THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS
• GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
• THIS IS WHAT 'S LIKE BEG THE HBAND OF A GAY DALLAS COWBOYS FAN
• GAY FORMER DALLAS PLAYER JEFF ROHRER AND HIS HBAND WELED AT COWBOYS RNN
• DALLAS COWBOYS ARE GAY
• GAY FORMER DALLAS PLAYER JEFF ROHRER AND HIS HBAND WELED AT COWBOYS RNN
• BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH

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. 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.

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.

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

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 . 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. For a uple of years, one of Outsports most-trafficked stori was a post about two gay Cowboys fans beg highlighted by ESPN. ESPN’s new seri ‘We The Fans: Dallas’ will feature a gay uple about to be married, who have bond over their love for the Dallas Cowboys.

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

Tim Sehon and Jt McCurry, an terracial gay uple om Arlgton, Texas, are diehard Cowboys fans. McCurry was teased regularly as other kids high school, cludg his teammat, thought (rrectly) that he was gay. Sehon, on the other hand, wasn’t spected of beg gay on his high school football team.

THIS IS WHAT 'S LIKE BEG THE HBAND OF A GAY DALLAS COWBOYS FAN

“She already knew I was gay, ” McCurry said, “but she’s a very good Christian and jt me gettg ready to go toward her wh that, put me an awkward moment bee I didn’t know what to expect om her. Throughout his NFL reer and time playg football at Cal, O’Callaghan hid he was gay, assumg everyone football would reject him if they knew. He didn’t thk he uld ever live as an out gay man.

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

Another popular meme has been potg out that another team’s fans are so gay (bee beg gay is bad) that they mt love Pri month:. “It’s a shame for people to reject the NFL for embracg the gay muny, ” Rohrer said. “The gay muny is a huge supporter of all sports, there are a lot of gay athlet every sport, football beg one of them.

It mak no sense for people to be upset at the league for showg some pri and rpect for the ex-players the NFL who are gay.

DALLAS COWBOYS ARE GAY

O’Callaghan was quick to pot out that, while ’s important to ntue to pot to rners of homophobic nonsense sports, this don’t mean a gay NFL player would be rejected by the league, s teams or most fans. “A lot of people are gog to say this is proof pro sports aren’t ready for gay athlet, but I thk ’s proof the NFL is ready, ” O’Callaghan said.

”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.

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.

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

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. 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.

BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

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. 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. The chance to e out publicly as gay.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH

Last year they attend the weddg of a gay uple — Josh’s iends New York. It’s a lson var gay former profsnal athlet have learned. The weddg has ma easier to tell the people around him that he’s gay.

It always irked Jeff when someone would qutn his love and knowledge of sports after he me out as gay.

Afterward played out as if were some ploy to take people off the scent of his beg gay. People ask me what's 's like to be married to a "GSL" (Gay Sports Lover) like 's an excg novelty.