Gay NFL Players List: Rumored, Confirmed Gay Amerin Footballers

Contents:

• HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL
• SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS HE FEEL ‘FREE’ AFTER RUMORS THAT HE WAS GAY
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• NBA STAR DWIGHT HOWARD ADDRS GAY RUMORS: 'I DON'T WANNA WEAR NO MASK'
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• THE LIST OF GAY BASKETBALL PLAYERS NTU TO GROW WH ANOTHER G OUT
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: SPORTS IS SO GAYGAY NFL PLAYERS: OUT OR RUMORED GAY AMERIN FOOTBALL JOCKS
• IS NICK YOUNG GAY? THE PHOTO THAT SPARKED RUMORS THE NBA SUPERSTAR WAS COMG OUT
• STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL

HERE ARE THE 6 GAY MEN WHO HAVE BEEN OUT PUBLICLY WHILE PETG PRO BASKETBALL

When John Amaechi me out publicly 2007, he was ahead of his time, sharg that he’s gay and a former profsnal basketball player. Sce Colls showed the world you uld be a gay man profsnal basketball, there has been a trickle of gay athlet to follow, most recently former NBA player and current Atralian pro basketball player Isaac Humphri. NFL hopeful Michael Sam me out as gay to his Universy of Missouri teammat 2013, then to ESPN as an "openly proud gay man" jt before the NFL draft 2014, makg him the first openly gay man to be drafted by an NFL team.

In April 2013, 7-foot NBA center Jason Colls me out of the closet, makg him the first openly gay profsnal athlete to pete the four major sports leagu. A ee agent at the time, Colls wrote Sports Illtrated, "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playg a major Amerin team sport... In November 2014, Colls announced his retirement, wrg Sports Illtrated, "It feels wonrful to have been part of the ton for sports and for gay rights, and to have been embraced by the public, the ach, the players, the league and history.

An off-duty Dallas police officer who traveled wh the Cowboys and worked secury at their hotels first told me that 'the word on the street' was that Troy Aikman was gay. Dpe fatherg children wh at least two different women, NFL player Braylon Edwards was mored to be gay after fellow player Will Demps said an terview that Edwards had asked him about molg and actg opportuni. Olympic sprter Carl Lewis was emed the greatt athlete of all time at his peak the 1980s, but that me crashg down when gay mors began to swirl around him.

SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS

Though married to a man at the time, tennis legend Billie Jean Kg was plagued wh gay mors for years before g out as a lbian.

If you speak wh gays, bisexuals, lbians and transgenrs, you will fd a lot of homophobia bee of the way we all grew up. Charl Barkley and Kev Durant have been two of NBA history’s most outspoken supporters of gay athlet and the LGBTQ muny.

In a society that unfairly puts a stigma on gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and other such dividuals, their support has been happily embraced.

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

Back 2017, durg the NBA’s Pri Para New York Cy, Durant went full blast his support of high-profile homosexuals.

Wh the Stanford alumn revealg he was a homosexual, the sports world was forced to tackle the lite issue of gay athlet wh their ranks. Before Jason Colls stunned the NBA and the sportg world wh his admissn of beg gay, Steve Nash was already advotg genr equaly.

The Canadian superstar was the first high-profile athlete to support former Phoenix Suns team print Rick Welts, who admted he was a homosexual. I am simply dog what a good person of nscience would do, which is makg people aware that gay people don’t jt look like Jack om ‘Will and Grace, ’ and that they don’t want to jump your bon every ocsn and that some are mp and some are butch and that we’re different and we’re eful and we are here.

DWIGHT HOWARD SAYS HE FEEL ‘FREE’ AFTER RUMORS THAT HE WAS GAY

Many already had spicns that he was homosexual, cludg former Jazz teammate Greg Ostertag, who reportedly asked him pot black if the mors were te. "As a black person, I’m agast any form of discrimatn — agast wh, Hispanics, gays, lbians, however you want to phrase .

This past September, was seven years sce I wrote, this magaze, “The Last Closet, ” a feature about the total sany that, September 2011, there were no openly gay players the four major North Amerin men’s profsnal sports leagu.

Sports seemed like the last bastn of this sort of homophobia left Amerin life, but did seem like that taboo was … looseng, at least, wh sports culture. A year after that, the Rams drafted openly gay fensive end Michael Sam the seventh round of the NFL draft, and he kissed his boyiend celebratn live on ESPN’s airwav; his jersey quickly beme the send-bt-sellg the NFL. There were more openly gay speakers at Tmp’s Republin Natnal Conventn than there are openly gay players men’s sports today.

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

After all, wasn’t long ago that LeBron Jam — who now is wily nsired a strong LGBT advote — was sayg that if you were gay and not tellg your teammat about , you were beg “untstworthy. ” He, like many players, has changed his tune sce then — Jam, forever a bsman, certaly saw the public relatns value evolvg as well — but ’s still rather mon to hear anti-gay sentiment om players; Amar’e Stoumire had to apologize for remarks he ma jt last year. But to learn that the league’s most hard-re fans appear to be as ristant to an openly gay player as some of his hypothetil teammat would be … well, we may have even further to travel than any of realized.

Atralian A-League soccer star Josh Cavallo me out as gay an October vio posted to his social media, beg hailed as the first current male top-flight profsnal soccer player to publicly do so.

"He ntued: "Growg up I always felt the need to hi myself, you know, bee I was ashamed, and ashamed I'll never be able to do what I love and be gay. In a September terview wh USA Today, 25-year-old mor league baseball player beme the only active baseball profsnal to be out as gay! The 28-year-old Natnal Football League player and Rairs fensive leman ma history when he me out as gay on Instagram durg Pri Month, beg the first veteran NFL player to e out as gay while signed to a regular-season ntract.

NBA STAR DWIGHT HOWARD ADDRS GAY RUMORS: 'I DON'T WANNA WEAR NO MASK'

The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. Corey Walsh, the 27-year-old pro BMX rir and Vans spokperson, said he isn't normally the type of person to "let people " on his personal life, but felt was important to e out as gay a March Instagram post bee "there are a lot of people still stgglg wh the same suatns" and he "jt wanted to let people know that they are not alone.

Champn long track speedskater Conor McDermott-Mostowy never hid beg gay om his fay, iends, and fellow athlet, but he also wasn't one to rate his locker wh rabow Pri flags eher. He ially feared negative stereotyp about gay male athlet but threw those ncerns asi after his two-tle performance at the U. But alas, the team ntu to surprise s fans as the purple and gold are reportedly terted a veteran ee agent who is certaly past his prime: Rudy Rumors: Lakers terted signg Rudy GayGay was jt waived by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr as they cut their roster om over 20 players down to 15.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

Los Angel was named as one potential suor for Gay by Michael Stto of Hoops Hype, who reported that Goln State Warrrs, Chigo Bulls, Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelins are also fans should be hopg that Gay signs wh one of the other reported suors as would be a step the wrong directn for the team. That obvly was not what happened and Pelka smartly pivoted to a younger foc sce really isn’t anythg for Gay to offer this team.

Below is the latt tel gathered by HoopsHype on the Harn tra talks and how they uld affect Joel Embiid and PJ Tucker, ee agency updat on Rudy Gay, Edmond Sumner, and Nerlens Noel, along wh not on the Lakers, Warrrs, Bucks, Mavericks, and more on HoopsHype.

Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype. Gay was healthy last season m a fger jot spra that siled him for two weeks and a member of Utah’s rotatn through most of last season.

THE LIST OF GAY BASKETBALL PLAYERS NTU TO GROW WH ANOTHER G OUT

At stadiums throughout the world – although maly wtern society, pecially Europe – they tnt players, there are racist, homophobic chants, and tly disgtg language is ed. He’s a solid player whout beg spectacular, but a lot of people know him solely for a hoax he tried to pull 2012, one that led people to believe that he was gay.

In 2013, he me out of the closet, revealg he was gay and dog so beg one of football’s first openly self-acknowledged gay players. Dpe him beg Brish, news that he was out still reached a lot of people, people who probably already had an klg that he was gay.

When Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop me out this week, was the first time an active player unr ntract to an NHL team had ever publicly acknowledged they were gay. Overnight, Prokop's announcement doubled the number of out gay athlet currently playg the untry's four major men's sports — football, basketball, baseball and hockey.

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Though many retired former players have e out, is more unual for male profsnal athlet to say they are gay while still playg. Gay male athlet face cultural barriers Part of the reason for the lack of out gay players men's profsnal sports uld be that there are jt fewer of them the game.

Rory Magrath, a rearcher at Solent Universy England, has suggted that 's possible gay men are unrreprented profsnal sports. "Gay men are a fe rource, so they n't exist great numbers every quarter, " Magrath told "Gay men are overreprented some areas, and as a nsequence are gog to be unrreprented sports. That uld be due to the mascule culture at the center of the major sports, experts say, creatg an environment that is ls welg to gay athlet.

IS NICK YOUNG GAY? THE PHOTO THAT SPARKED RUMORS THE NBA SUPERSTAR WAS COMG OUT

Magrath helped thor a study that found that male athlet who me out as gay while still playg sports were largely met wh acceptance by their teammat.

Robbie Rogers ma history 2013 when he took the field for the Los Angel Galaxy after as the first openly gay player profsnal U. NBA player Jason Colls, who me out 2013 while he was still playg the league, later told NPR " went great" when he scribed the perd after announcg he was gay.

STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL

After Michael Sam beme the first openly gay athlete to be drafted to the NFL 2014, then-Miami Dolphs safety Don Jon tweeted "horrible, " rultg penalti and a spensn.