Los Angel Rams will have 5 gay cheerlears the Super Bowl - Outsports

Contents:

• SIX GAY NNECTNS TO THE RAMS-BENGALS SUPER BOWL LVI, AND WE DON’T MEAN THE KICKER
• MEET THE 4 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS TO APPEAR A SUPER BOWL
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• 49ERS’ KATIE SOWERS IS THE FIRST WOMAN AND OPENLY GAY ACH SUPER BOWL HISTORY
• 5 L FOR HOSTG A GAY SUPER BOWL PARTY
• RAMS WILL HAVE 5 GAY CHEERLEARS THE SUPER BOWL
• SUPER BOWL CHAMPN WILLIE GAY JR. RETURNED TO MISSISSIPPI ON WEDNDAY. HERE'S WHAT HE SAID
• '80 FOR BRADY' DIRECTOR TALKS SUPER BOWL, WHY FILM'S GAY KISS WAS CUT
• SUPER BOWL 2023: A.J. BROWN, WILLIE GAY LEAD GROUP OF EX-HIGH SCHOOL TEAMMAT PLAYG AGAST EACH OTHER

SIX GAY NNECTNS TO THE RAMS-BENGALS SUPER BOWL LVI, AND WE DON’T MEAN THE KICKER

LGBT+ History Month: Male sports n 'break that stereotype' - Ryan RsellSuper Bowl 56: Los Angel Rams v Ccnati BengalsDate: Sunday, 13 Febary Start: 23:30 GMT Venue: SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California Coverage: Live on BBC Two om 23:00 GMT, swchg to BBC One at 23:35, mentary on BBC Rad 5 live om 23:00, live text mentary on the BBC Sport webse om 22:30There are some thgs Ryan Rsell isn't sure about - such as who he wants to w the Super Bowl this then there are the thgs about which the former NFL fensive end is certa - such as a belief that Amerin football n thrive by beg a more clive the 12 months sce the last Super Bowl, there has been a major breakthrough on that ont, wh Carl Nassib makg history as the first NFL player to e out as gay and then feature a regular-season as the Los Angel Rams and the Ccnati Bengals prepare to face each other this year's showpiece, Rsell has had chance to reflect on the recent chang he's seen regardg LGBTQ+ cln this most Amerin of sports. " 'Male sport is ready to break the stereotype'The reactn to Rsell's story was overwhelmgly posive, even though a small number of voic qutned the impact of havg a gay or bisexual man the locker room.

MEET THE 4 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS TO APPEAR A SUPER BOWL

"And I thk male profsnal sport is on that ge as well, to break that stereotype that we n't have gay or bisexual players. "'It created so much love and opportuny for people'Two summers after Rsell shared his story, Nassib spoke out about his a handheld vio posted on Instagram, the Las Vegas Rairs fensive end me out as gay, what many saw as a watershed moment for the sport.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

The Los Angel Rams have a kicker named Gay (Matt, married to a woman, two children), but that’s not one of the gay angl to be found Super Bowl LVI between the Rams and Ccnati Bengals.

There is only one openly gay player the NFL, Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Rairs, but that don’t mean the two Super Bowl teams don’t have LGBTQ nnectns. In 2014, the biggt story sports occurred when fensive leman Michael Sam me out as gay prr to the NFL Draft. Gay players Super Bowl history.

49ERS’ KATIE SOWERS IS THE FIRST WOMAN AND OPENLY GAY ACH SUPER BOWL HISTORY

There have been 16 out gay and bi players NFL history, wh only Nassib out while still active.

5 L FOR HOSTG A GAY SUPER BOWL PARTY

Gay Rams cheerlears. Rams cheerlears Quton Peron and Napoleon Jni were trailblazers when they me out publicly as gay followg the Rams’ Super Bowl appearance the 2018 season. Gay Bengals of days past.

RAMS WILL HAVE 5 GAY CHEERLEARS THE SUPER BOWL

In 2017, he wrote that durg that time there were three Bengals players who apparently were gay. Durg my time wh the Bengals, three players me across my radar at different tim as the subject of signifint sir scuttlebutt about beg gay.

SUPER BOWL CHAMPN WILLIE GAY JR. RETURNED TO MISSISSIPPI ON WEDNDAY. HERE'S WHAT HE SAID

Last year, Buffalo Bills Hall of Famer Bce Smh said, “We had a gay player our locker room. When Carl Nassib ma the NFL playoffs the last two seasons — wh the Las Vegas Rairs 2021 and the Tampa Bay Bucneers 2022 — we had a chance for an active player who is gay to appear a Super Bowl.

'80 FOR BRADY' DIRECTOR TALKS SUPER BOWL, WHY FILM'S GAY KISS WAS CUT

But Nassib’s teams were elimated the wild-rd round each time and so we will awa a gay player makg history. There are no openly gay players Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas Cy Chiefs and Philalphia Eagl. There has never been an openly gay player the Super Bowl, but four players who were later me out have played the game.

SUPER BOWL 2023: A.J. BROWN, WILLIE GAY LEAD GROUP OF EX-HIGH SCHOOL TEAMMAT PLAYG AGAST EACH OTHER

There have certaly been more than four gay or bi men who have played a Super Bowl, but the are the only four whose sexual orientatn has been ma known publicly:. Smh, who later died of plitns om AIDS, never me out publicly as gay. But his orientatn was known by his Washgton teammat, cludg nng back Dave Kopay, who me out as gay 1975 after retirg om a ne-year reer.