3 gay football players featured NFL Network segment on Carl Nassib - Outsports

Contents:

• DIARY OF A GAY FOOTBALL FAN AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
• GAY ENGLAND FAN QATAR'S SECRET WORLD CUP DIARY
• TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN
• WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY FOOTBALL FAN STLAND 2019
• DIARY OF A GAY MAN
• WHAT MEANS TO BE A GAY FOOTBALL FAN 2017
• DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

DIARY OF A GAY FOOTBALL FAN AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP

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GAY ENGLAND FAN QATAR'S SECRET WORLD CUP DIARY

Qatar has said "everyone is wele", but as a gay man travellg a untry where same-sex relatnships are crimalised, he tells through his diary how the experience has been challengg. I've been an England fan for longer than I've known what the word "gay" means. I'm aware that my cisn to go to Qatar puts me the substantial mory of gay England fans - but if we're ser that the game is for everyone, I'm not gog to let Qatar's spible LGBT rights stop me om enjoyg the game that I love.

I don't feel I have to choose between beg a gay man and an England fan.

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TAL OM A GAY FOOTBALL FAN

I thk the lols genuely do believe , they jt don't nsir gay fans as part of the equatn. It's not necsarily homophobic, 's jt such a taboo topic that we're visible.

I've met a uple of people who've said, "you're perfectly safe here, why do matter that you're gay? Wele to the plight of a gay sports fan!

My teemed lleague Cyd Zeigler wrote last week about the annoyg stereotype that gay men have to be “masc” to watch the Super Bowl.

WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY FOOTBALL FAN STLAND 2019

As a rult, I often take on a self-pretg tone when discsg my sports fandom, lamentg how I am the “worst gay ever” bee I n more easily name the Red Sox’s startg ne than the latt nttants on “Drag Race.

I have my gay sports iends to thank.

DIARY OF A GAY MAN

My foray to the gay world began when I joed Boston’s LGBTQ flag football league 2016.

WHAT MEANS TO BE A GAY FOOTBALL FAN 2017

I started datg men three years prr, but until then, my gay life basilly end the bedroom. The faiari eased my trepidatns about enterg a gay space.

I’ve experienced so many important gay firsts wh my football iends: drag shows, weddgs, viss to Montreal’s Gay Village. I’m not sayg there are right and wrong ways to be gay, of urse.

DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS

Co-founr Jim Buzski recently wrote about a new survey that found 30 percent of gay men and 40 percent of lbians intify as “passnate sports fans. They play the Gay Football Supporters Network (GFSN) league, the only LGBT league Bra and agast, gasp, “straight” teams as well.

You would hear homophobic chants, this was om Dune fans, and when   om your own, so to speak, do mean more bee there was a nnectn between me and my fellow supporters.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

READ MORE: Graeme McGarry: Is Stland ready for a gay player? “Thgs are better, but you still hear homophobic language so there’s a way to go.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

You hardly hear any racism the days, and if there is tends to get challenged, but not so much when to homophobia. It mak prsg sense therefore that homophobia remas a problem. Stt Cuthbertson, velopment manager of the Equaly Network, said recently that he knew of gay players Sttish football who had e out to their club but not publicly.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

“It’s difficult enough to make the game but I n’t image havg to al wh beg the first highprofile gay footballer. There is a mix of gay and straight players and ’s far more accepted. Those who pla about a “gay agenda” beg forced on them need to do a b of growg up, a b more readg and thkg, and rise above lazy clich.

Sce my last postg, some of my iends on Xbox have learned of my beg gay, and all is well the Call of Duty world!..