Esera Tuaolo played many years the Natnal Football League while hidg a secret om teammat: he's gay. He tells Liane Hansen about his memoir of the experience: Alone the Trench.
Contents:
- PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
- AARON RODGERS' PACKERS TEAMMAT ONCE REPORTEDLY THOUGHT HE WAS GAY BEE OF A BIZARRE REASON: "HE WASN’T ONE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS P*NIS SIZE"
- EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
- THE 46 NFL PLAYERS WOULD SUPPORT AN OPENLY GAY TEAMMATE
- THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
- A GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER, 'ALONE THE TRENCH'
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
Aaron Rodgers went on his weekly rad show on Tuday and quashed a mor that he's gay. "I'm not gay. I really, really like women," Rodgers said. * packers gay player *
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AARON RODGERS' PACKERS TEAMMAT ONCE REPORTEDLY THOUGHT HE WAS GAY BEE OF A BIZARRE REASON: "HE WASN’T ONE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS P*NIS SIZE"
Players on 22 NFL teams have already had an out gay teammate, cludg six players wh the Arizona Cardals. * packers gay player *
-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon.
Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021.The Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Aaron Rodgers was once spected of beg gay.
EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
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A mor circulated around the locker room that he was gay, based upon the fact that — unlike many of his teammat — he wasn’t one to brag about his penis size or his endls strg of sexual nquts.
"Twenty years of speakg and gog out there and tg people on homophobia sports and the LGBTQ muny, the big qutn has been, 'When will the first active NFL player e out? "That's when Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib told the world that he was gay, a revelatn that will make him the first openly gay active player the NFL when he sus up 2021. He revealed he was gay 2002 an terview wh HBO's Real Sports, makg him the third former NFL player to e out.
THE 46 NFL PLAYERS WOULD SUPPORT AN OPENLY GAY TEAMMATE
Tuaolo has been part of the shiftg tis as an advote, givg speech, appearg ernment heargs, appearg on TV shows and wrg his tobgraphy 2006, "Alone the Trench: My Life As a Gay Man the NFL.
He's gog to be bombard by so many thgs, by so many people, and now he's the 'gay player, ' they're gog to be npickg everythg he do, like they did wh Michael Sam, " Tuaolo said, referrg to the openly gay Universy of Missouri star who was drafted the seventh round and never played an NFL game. Matt Gay (Indianapolis Colts) - 80 Overall. The NFL season is s openg weekend and once aga there are no openly gay players, the same s been sce the league started 98 years ago.
THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
Over the years, Outsports and other media have asked players their views on LGBT issu general and whether they would wele an openly gay teammate.
There have been dozens of players who said they would accept a gay teammate, wh a lot of them beg asked the qutn when Michael Sam me out as an openly gay draft pick 2014.
A GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER, 'ALONE THE TRENCH'
And any out gay player is gog to need straight alli the locker room sce the latter will far outnumber the former. Gay-supportive NFL players.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
The eight players would support a gay teammate (om 2018).