Former Rairs, 49ers OL Kwame Harris adms he's gay

Contents:

• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• 49ERS EXPAND LGBTQ OUTREACH, DT MRICE HURST SHAR LOVE FOR HIS GAY IENDS
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• FORMER 49ERS PLAYER KWAME HARRIS TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY
• FORMER RAIRS, 49ERS OL KWAME HARRIS ADMS HE'S GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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

The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly. 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. 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. In June, Carl Nassib of the Rairs me out as gay.

49ERS EXPAND LGBTQ OUTREACH, DT MRICE HURST SHAR LOVE FOR HIS GAY IENDS

“I’m livg my dream, ” he says, standg outsi Splash, the inic gay bar downtown San Jose that he manag and that often hosts 49ers watch parti. Some of his gay iends don’t unrstand his love for a sport associated wh an aggrsively mascule ial.

It wasn’t that long ago that players felt ee to openly exprs hostily to havg gay teammat. Wh football, also don’t matter if you’re gay or straight or any genr, relign or sex. Q Do you have gay iends who wonr how you n like such a btal sport?

Q When former Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to publicly e out as gay, was amazg to see his team, the NFL and other major players tweetg out statements about how proud they were of him …. There are no openly gay players on the 49ers or anywhere the NFL, though the 49ers do have an openly gay assistant ach, Katie Sowers. The 49ers do have a historic legacy the gay sports movement.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

As the San Francis 49ers held a special Diversy & Incln Day at trag mp last Thursday — vg members of the LGBTQ fan group 49ers Pri to attend the team’s Communy Corner — newly acquired DT Mrice Hurst opened up about his support for LGBTQ people, cludg the possibily of havg a gay teammate. Hurst said he would be “extra supportive” of any athlete who me out as big, gay or queer. The subject was the impact of Carl Nassib g out as gay the NFL for the Las Vegas Rairs.

Matea offensive leman Jake Strer, who is gay, is one of five current or former LGBTQ athlet profiled.

FORMER 49ERS PLAYER KWAME HARRIS TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY

“When I returned to football my sophomore year after g out was bee I knew that if I qu football was jt the begng of thgs I would qu or hold myself back om bee I was gay, ” Strer told Outsports. “To fast forward to my last football game my senr year and have end wh ‘NFL 360’ there to clu me a story celebratg the first openly gay football player NFL history is still really unbelievable to me. EST, we see scen of Strer’s last game as a Matea Mtang, terspersed wh him speakg about beg gay football and what Nassib’s g out meant to him.

Their experienc are universal, ways good and bad, for many LGBTQ people — Pick talkg about the pa om the ial rejectn by her mom; O’Callaghan discsg suicidal thoughts before beg rcued by a therapist; Rapoport’s touchg rellectn of g out to NFL Commissner Roger Gooll by approachg him at a Super Bowl event holdg her girliend’s hand and Gooll’s se upon seeg ; Saffold discsg growg up Black and gay on the South Si of Chigo “where there are rampant levels of homophobia” and Strer on how he ed to worry “about how bad my life might be after I me out. “I thk 11- or 12-year-old kids playg football prr to Carl Nassib g out didn’t thk there uld be a gay football player, ” Rapoport said.

FORMER RAIRS, 49ERS OL KWAME HARRIS ADMS HE'S GAY

Former San Francis 49ers offensive tackle Kwame Harris opened up about beg a homosexual player the closet durg his NFL reer an terview wh CNN Newsroom this morng.

"I don't do the gay guys man, " said Culliver. No, we don't got no gay people on the team, they gotta get up out of here if they do. "I want people, whether gay athlet, athlet still the closet, or youths who are not sure what their sexualy is to know those are mon feelgs, " Harris said.

When former 49ers and Rairs offensive leman Kwame Harris was alleged January to have asslted a former boyiend, was logil to nclu that Harris, though he had never publicly e out of the closet, is gay. Harris is now sayg that he hop other gay athlet realize they’re not alone.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

As ’s Mike Freeman reported this week, a gay NFL player is nsirg g out of the clost, which would mark him as the first openly-gay active athlete major Amerin pro sports. Seahawks fensive end Chris Clemons said ’d be selfish for a gay player to announce durg the season. They jt tryg to make themselv bigger than the team … No one said anythg about be a homophobic.

And, as PFT pots out, he jos a list of former NFLers who have revealed they’re gay that clus Roy Simmons, Wa Davis, Esera Tuaolo and Dave Kopay.

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

Kev Maxen is gay.

No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself.

Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.