Before Nassib beme the first openly gay active NFL player, others paved the way — and paid a steep st.
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- THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
- GAY PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS: PL PLAYERS MOURED TO BE GAY
THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
* rumoured gay footballers *
Carl Nassib on Monday beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. Carl Nassib has ma history as the first active NFL player to announce that he is gay.
GAY PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYERS: PL PLAYERS MOURED TO BE GAY
Many people fd hard to believe that there are actually footballers who are Gay, and while some have e out openly others are still hidg beh * rumoured gay footballers *
Sam beme a trailblazer as the first openly gay athlete to be drafted by the NFL 2014. "I jt feel like bee I me out, I was the first one to do , I uld be a bean for other athlet who may be gay or may be not. Michael Sam was the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team.
He found a temporary home shortly thereafter when he signed a two-year ntract wh the Montreal Alouett 2015 and beme the first openly gay football player to play the Canadian Football League.
David Kopay me out as gay years after retirg om football. The board of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn had only voted to stop classifyg homosexualy as a mental illns 1973. But he was, by all acunts, a pneer, wh Outsports scribg him 2019 as "the most signifint gay athlete morn history.
Players on 22 NFL teams have already had an out gay teammate, cludg six players wh the Arizona Cardals. * rumoured gay footballers *
Durg an terview wh NPR 2005, Kopay spoke on the difficulti of beg a gay man the world of football. "Beg gay dividual sports is one thg, but beg gay team sports is a whole 'nother, bee... "That's why a lot of people say, `Well, gay people wouldn't f , ' bee their inty is so different.
'" Other gay football players have siarly spoken out, remarkg on the stggl of beg closeted such a hyper-mascule world.
"No one is gog to assume the big football player is gay, " he told the magaze. Many people fd hard to believe that there are actually footballers who are Gay, and while some have e out openly others are still hidg behd closed doors. Today we're gog to look at 10 footballers who have been acced of beg Gay and some have e out openly to be Gay.