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Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib ma history Monday by beg the first active NFL player to e out as gay.

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30 MOMENTS OF PRI: ESERA TUAOLO APPEARS THE SUPER BOWL AS A CLOSETED GAY PLAYER

Carl Nassib is the first to ever play a down as openly gay, but the rt are still trailblazers. * nfl gay moments *

31, 1999, when Esera Tuaolo played the Super Bowl for the Atlanta Falns, three years before he would e out openly as gay. When Atlanta Falns fensive tackle Esera Tuaolo entered Super Bowl XXXIII Miami as a substute, he was not yet out as a gay man and he did not have a big role what was a 34-19 loss to the Denver Brons. Nohels, the mere fact that he was playg on such a big game while closeted terrified him, as he reunts his 2007 book “Alone the Trench: My Life as a Gay Man the NFL.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

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In all that time, not one teammate, ach, or sportswrer knew I was gay.... What if one of those billn people watchg regnized me as the stranger he had picked up a gay bar? All he had to do was out me to the prs and the story would be all over the headl: “Gay Man Mak Fal Tackle Super Bowl.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY HISTORIC NFL MOMENT

"I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay," he said an Instagram vio. "I've been meang to do this for a while now, but I fally feel fortable enough to get off my cht." * nfl gay moments *

He might not have a Super Bowl trophy, but he do have a gold medal he won playg on the champnship flag football team sponsored by Outsports at the 2006 Gay Gam (Cyd and I also played on that team).

Never his wilst dreams that January night 1999 would Tuaolo have believed he would be so fortable to one day play a sportg event wh gay the tle. The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly.

NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

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16 and the first one to e out as gay while on an active roster. Over the years, Outsports has known of a few other players who are gay but have never e out, even when retired.

CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY

The NFL Network produced a documentary on Smh beg gay. Jenks is gay and this was the the first time he wily discsed his sexual orientatn.

CARL NASSIB OUT AS 1ST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

In June, Carl Nassib of the Rairs me out as gay. Perkz/@rlnassib/@rkrelentls)When Kansas State offensive tackle and NFL hopeful Stt Frantz me out to the natn as gay, he shared that his teammat (to whom he'd e out earlier) had warmly received the news, a sign the most alpha of locker rooms may fally be ready for equaly.

Here's a list of players llege and pro ball who have proved you n be gay or bi and still n the gntlet. Roy "Sugar Bear" Simmons, an offensive leman for the New York Giants and Washgton Redsks, beme the send NFL player ever to publicly reveal he was gay.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

So Coach Vce Lombardi knew McDonald was gay when he took over learship of the team 1969, but ma clear there would be no discrimatn his locker room, those close to the legend say. Cornerback Wa Davis, who played preason wh the Tennsee Tans, Seattle Seahawks and Washgton Redsks and spent two seasons wh NFL Europe teams Berl Thunr and Barcelona Dragons, me out as gay 2012, nearly a after his retirement.

He would later nfirm his sexualy on CNN and s down wh ESPN to discs the challeng of growg up gay Jamai and playg football while closeted. He later cled to sign wh the Tennsee Tans and Dallas Cowboys before g out as gay at 24, he told Philalphia Magaze revealed to the magaze that he'd dated a male cheerlear at Purdue who had threatened to out him then.

He would later move to San Francis and jo the Fog, a gay gby team, and pen a g-out blog post 2015.

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