There have been 11 known gay players NFL history - Outsports

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• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY
• EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• SOME PACKERS THOUGHT AARON RODGERS WAS GAY BEE HE DIDN’T ‘BRAG ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE’

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen revealed that he is gay on Thursday. Maxen is believed to be the first male ach a major pro sport to publicly e out as gay.

Former Jaguar center Brandon Lr praised workg wh Maxen, who reached out to openly gay NFL player Carl Nassib 2022. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen told Outsports on Thursday that he is gay, makg him the first publicly out male ach major men’s pro sports the Uned Stat.

The announcement today by former Patrts and Chiefs offensive leman Ryan O'Callaghan that he is gay brgs to seven the number of NFL known gay players NFL history who have played a regular season game. In addn, four other players who me out as gay were NFL trag mps, some playg preason gam. Kopay played wh two teammat who were gay: tight end Jerry Smh and nng back Ray McDonald.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

Gay players have long been the NFL. Legendary Packers and Redsks ach Vce Lombardi — who had an openly gay brother — knew that some of his players were gay.

In the Outsports article on O’Callaghan g out, longtime NFL executive Stt Pli says he has unseled gay NFL players before. The NFL Network produced a documentary on Smh beg gay. "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.

THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY

He revealed he was gay 2002 an terview wh HBO's Real Sports, makg him the third former NFL player to e out. 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.

EX-PACKERS LEMAN AND LGBTQ+ ADVOTE ESERA TUAOLO RELIEVED AND PROUD TO SEE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

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

Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib sent shockwav throughout the NFL world on Monday by beg the first active NFL player to e out as a gay man. Hopefully his cisn will not only enurage and support others the league who are ncerned about g out but also young gay men who are aaid to play the game they love out of fear of beg exclud, judged, or ostracized simply bee of their sexual orientatn.

Back 2014, Michael Sam beme the first openly gay man drafted by an NFL anchise when the then-St. Sam was released by the Rams and also spent some time on the Dallas Cowboys practice squad before he beme the first openly gay player the Canadian Football League when he joed the Montreal Alouett 2015.

SOME PACKERS THOUGHT AARON RODGERS WAS GAY BEE HE DIDN’T ‘BRAG ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE’

However, there was one player before Sam who tly shattered stereotyp and started blazg a trail for gay men football and that player was drafted by none other than the Green Bay Packers. The big difference between Sam and Tuaolo was that when Tuaolo was selected by the Packers the send round of the 1991 draft, no one knew he was gay.

Let’s take a moment to remember how homosexualy was perceived Ameri 30 years ago. Still, homosexualy was still owned upon largely by society.

In other words, g out as gay 1991 often would put a target on your back as an average person, let alone a celebry like a profsnal football player. In 2002, three years after his fal NFL appearance, Tuaolo me out as gay. Tuaolo’s g out sparked a bate that has yet to be settled almost 20 years later: How will a gay player be accepted the NFL?