Gay ex-NFL player and drag queen on ‘The Voice’ premiere

Contents:

• A GAY EX-NFL PLAYER AND A DRAG QUEEN CHURCH LEAR HIGHLIGHT 'THE VOICE' PREMIERE
• OUT GAY FORMER NFL PLAYER TURNS TO SGG BETIFUL THE VOICE DN
• GAY FORMER NFL PLAYER ESERA TUAOLO DNG ON ‘THE VOICE’ BROADST SEPT. 25
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• WATCH THIS GAY FORMER NFL PLAYER BLOW THE VOICE JUDG AWAY
• GAY FORMER NFL PLAYER STUNS THE VOICE JUDG BLD DN – WATCH
• ESERA TUAOLO, 300 LB. GAY EX-NFL PLAYER ON ‘THE VOICE’ IS FATHER OF 2
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS
• CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY
• NFL ASSISTANT ACH OUT AS GAY
• THE PRO-GAY VOICE OF A FORMER NFL PLAYER
• THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY

A GAY EX-NFL PLAYER AND A DRAG QUEEN CHURCH LEAR HIGHLIGHT 'THE VOICE' PREMIERE

Esera me out as a gay man after he retired om football, and said that was “like this huge mounta jt cmbled. ” Esera ntued, “You know, I felt light as a feather, but when I jumped on the sle, I was still the 6-foot-4, 300-pound Samoan that’s gay and played the NFL. An out gay former Superbowl star has turned his hand to sgg as he appeared on The Voice a stunng bld dn.

RELATED: Out gay former NFL player: ‘Life is great now’ that I me out. The Superbowl star me out 2002 after g out as gay on HBO.

He has rarely spoken out about g out or life as a gay NFL player. Esera Tuaolo, the openly gay former NFL player who went to the Super Bowl wh the Atlanta Falns, will appear on ‘The Voice’ on Sept.

OUT GAY FORMER NFL PLAYER TURNS TO SGG BETIFUL THE VOICE DN

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.

GAY FORMER NFL PLAYER ESERA TUAOLO DNG ON ‘THE VOICE’ BROADST SEPT. 25

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.

But watch their fac when he sually tells them that he’s gay. When I said those words for the first [time], when I said that I was gay, was like this huge mounta jt cmbled, ” he said.

“I felt light as a feather, but when I jumped on the sle I was still that 6’4”, 300 pound Samoan that’s gay and played the NFL.

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

Church anist walks out durg sermon after pastor starts quotg antigay vers. After wowg the judg wh his vols, he also won their hearts after revealg he’s gay. When I said those words for the first time; when I said that ‘I was gay’, was like this huge mounta jt cmbled.

WATCH THIS GAY FORMER NFL PLAYER BLOW THE VOICE JUDG AWAY

“I felt light as a feather but when I jumped on the sle I was still that 6-foot-4-ch, 300-pound Samoan that’s gay and played the NFL. Gay.

Esera Tuaolo is the openly gay former NFL player who’s dng on The Voice, Season 13. [Tuaolo’s memoir is Alone the Trench: My Life as a Gay Man the NFL].

GAY FORMER NFL PLAYER STUNS THE VOICE JUDG BLD DN – WATCH

-- 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. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs’ Carl Nassib Announc He’s Gay, an N.

FirstThe Rairs fensive leman me out a statement posted to his Instagram acunt on Monday, beg the first active player the league to publicly intify as gay. ViotranscripttranscriptCarl Nassib Be First Openly Gay Active N. I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

Player to publicly clare that he is gay. “I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt.

ESERA TUAOLO, 300 LB. GAY EX-NFL PLAYER ON ‘THE VOICE’ IS FATHER OF 2

I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth.

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

L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history.

“Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L. ”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N.

The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS

Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Sam left the N. Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over. David Kopay beme the first pro football player to publicly e out as gay 1975, three years after he retired.

He played for ne seasons wh the San Francis 49ers and four other teams the 1960s and 1970s, and has sce bee an activist and an ambassador for the Gay Gam, a quadrennial sportg Simmons was the send former player to announce that he was gay, dog so 1992 after his reer wh the Giants and Washgton Football Team had end. Simmons also said he never would have clared himself gay durg the four seasons he played for the N.

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

”In recent years, the league has publicly supported Pri Month through promotnal efforts like changg official social media avatars to clu rabows and supportg the You Can Play Project, which provis rourc to enurage clivy youth sports, even as some players have ma rogatory statements about gay people wh ltle penalty or supported groups that oppose gay Wewerka for The New York TimIn 2013, Chris Culliver of the San Francis 49ers and Chris Clemons of the Seattle Seahawks ma offensive ments when asked about the prospect of havg a gay teammate. “Got no gay people on the team, ” Culliver said.

”San Francis nng back Garrison Hearst apologized 2002 for g a slur and sayg he wouldn’t want a gay player as a teammate. His ment me after the former Mnota Vikgs player Esera Tuaolo publicly me out as gay that year after he had retired. Players like Brendon Ayanbajo, who played wh the Baltimore Ravens, fend same-sex marriage and gay rights and supported Sam at the time.

Player to Announce He’s Gay. By David VandygriffAn out gay former Superbowl star has turned his hand to sgg as he appeared on The Voice a stunng bld dn. ​He has rarely spoken out about g out or life as a gay NFL player.

NFL ASSISTANT ACH OUT AS GAY

” “I felt light as a feather but when I jumped on the sle I was still that 6-foot-4-ch, 300-pound Samoan that’s gay and played the NFL. ” He rpond to the woman om TMZ who asked: “What do you make of this ia that gay men n’t play football? The Las Vegas Rairs are releasg Carl Nassib, the fensive end who ma history last year as the first openly gay active player NFL history.

“The Rairs, the NFL, have monstrated that they support this man as a gay man, ” Zeigler said, addg that Nassib’s succsful rerd will help him quickly fd a new team. ” Former NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan, who me out as gay June 2017, after his time the league, said Nassib’s reer monstrat that players do not need to promise their LGBTQ inti sports. Carl Nassib Is The First Active NFL Player To Come Out As Gay "I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay, " he said an Instagram vio.

Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib said on Monday that he would not have been able to publicly e out as gay whout the support of the NFL and his teammat. " "I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay, " Nassib said an Instagram vio he posted on his verified Instagram acunt. " Nassib is by no means the first gay football player the NFL, but he is the first openly gay active player the league to play the regular season.

THE PRO-GAY VOICE OF A FORMER NFL PLAYER

Michael Sam me out as gay followg his succsful llege reer and before the 2014 NFL draft, makg him the first publicly gay player to be drafted the NFL. So, when he fally told his father that he was gay – over the phone the eveng after his mother had gused his lgerg secret – he waed for the great unknown: the reactn of this former pro athlete. He says he put up the same walls that the other players did and ma the same c jok – sometim racist or homophobic nature – that they did.

Dpe the machismo of the football locker room, Frank has an tertg take on what might have been like to be openly gay pro football of the 1960s. "Had we spected someone was gay, I really don't thk we would have ma any big issue of , " Frank says. "I know a lot of players I played wh would have been very protective of any gay player who would have the urage to e out and face the problems they may have had to face, " Jackson says.

THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY

They may have jt forced a gay player out of the game. Jt as he thks the potential reactn of players then has been misreprented, he thks football players today are much more ready for a gay teammate than some of them may want to let on.