Kwame Harris Talks About Beg Gay - Outsports

Contents:

• FORMER RAIRS, 49ERS OL KWAME HARRIS ADMS HE'S GAY
• FORMER 49ERS PLAYER KWAME HARRIS TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY
• EX-NFL PLAYER KWAME HARRIS CONFIRMS HE'S GAY
• KWAME HARRIS’ BOYIEND DISPUTE MAY OPEN DOOR FOR OTHER GAY ATHLET TO EMERGE
• KWAME HARRIS TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY
• KWAME HARRIS – A GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER NFL
• KWAME HARRIS IS GAY. IT'S OK, YOU CAN SAY IT.
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• KWAME HARRIS: BEG GAY AND THE NFL “NOT COMPATIBLE”

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

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. "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.

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. "Du, this would be a gay guy's dream, " the teammate said.

FORMER 49ERS PLAYER KWAME HARRIS TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY

JAMAICA HAS BEEN lled one of the most homophobic plac on earth -- where Victorian-era sodomy laws punish homosexualy wh up to 10 years prison.

The island's reggae mic glorifi beatg and killg "batty boys, " risive slang for gay Jamains. Gay men and lbians are routely driven om their hom by mobs while police stand was there a ral village 1982 that Kwame, the send of Keh and Corl Harris' sons, was born. "I grew up not knowg anyone who was homosexual, " says Corl of her life Jamai.

EX-NFL PLAYER KWAME HARRIS CONFIRMS HE'S GAY

As a nurse, she'd worked wh gay doctors, and she thought she saw siar tras Kwame as he matured.

KWAME HARRIS’ BOYIEND DISPUTE MAY OPEN DOOR FOR OTHER GAY ATHLET TO EMERGE

"I thought I'd e out to San Francis, this haven for gay people, and I would spread my wgs and everythg would be great. "He knows I'm gay, Kwame thought, fumblg to lower the volume, lookg to see who else was watchg. So every month or so he would gather his urage and, his bumblg adolcent way, try to hook those days, Kwame would borrow a iend's Jetta -- poppg open the sunroof jt to f si -- and drive 45 mut north to San Francis's Castro district, perhaps the natn's most famo gay neighborhood.

So he h gay bookstor and an ocsnal rave.

KWAME HARRIS TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY

"But on the field, he was fearls, earng send-team All-Pac-10 honors as a sophomore right tackle.

"Okay, " she said, the role of terviewer, "I'm gog to ask you about the game as an athlete who is gay. The clost he me was when he dropped a large envelope of articl about gay athlet at the door of a ach on staff. Who is the gay guy?

KWAME HARRIS – A GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER NFL

I wanted him to make okay for me to be a gay, even though I wasn't ready to e out.

"When Willgham, former Stanford ach, is asked today whether he'd known that Kwame or any other players were gay, he says: "I wouldn't know that, and I wouldn't speculate.

Kwame lghs today about players who say 
they don't md if a teammate is gay as long as that sexualy "isn't shoved my face.

KWAME HARRIS IS GAY. IT'S OK, YOU CAN SAY IT.

And through all, Kwame uldn't shake the sense that part of the reason for his cle was the prsure of hidg that he was gay. If the world had been more fortable wh gay players on the football field, wouldn't have been so nsumg when me up.

Everythg would not have been filtered through that, beg gay.

When I had a bad game or if we lost or if I did somethg awful, was bee I was gay.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

In Kwame's md, that marg was promised by fears that someone football would fd out he was gay -- or that his fellow lemen already knew and secretly hated him for one particularly tratg game, a meetg about his clg performance, he tted the waters wh a 49ers ach. Is that you're gay?

His was an outg that me not the form of a ordated media blz and a phone ll om the print, but the form of a fistfight wh a former lover ont of a Che Augt of 2012, Kwame had been out of the NFL for three years and was re-enrolled at Stanford, wh no plans to tell the world that he was gay; those who knew him knew, and those who didn't, didn't need to.

In March, a CNN terview, he publicly clared he is gay.

KWAME HARRIS: BEG GAY AND THE NFL “NOT COMPATIBLE”

The prsure of the pendg trial, he rmed the urt, had unrmed his emotnal and physil health and affected his WALK THE Stanford mp wh Kwame Harris today -- as we did seven tim for this story -- is to see a man habg his past the prent tense: the gay and lbian center, where he once furtively grabbed pamphlets; the pat at the English partment, where he recently pleted his English l gree; the Rod Sculpture Garn, where he wrote his papers. "When asked how he feels to have been outed not by choice but by chance, he says only that he's relieved to add his name to the list of former pro athlet who are gay. I don't want other gay athlet to feel this way.

And on this day, he n't get Willgham's ment about gay players out of his head: "What more needs to be asked? "Bee what sounds like is that your sex life don't matter -- which would be te if what supported that were tolerance, as opposed to nial and many s homophobia.