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He gaed&nbsp;a few unexpected fans the gay muny&nbsp;today, but the notorly God-fearg quarterback sred off the very supporters who saw him as a Christian celebry &mdash; they&#39;re llg his about-face on an anti-gay marriage pastor &quot;disastro.&quot;

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KORLL STEWART’S STORY IS WHY WE’VE AVOID SPREADG GAY ATHLETE MORS

Outsports has received gay mors about athlet for years. Though that trend is clg. * tim tebow gay rumors *

Some of his peers even thought he was a secret homosexual.

People believe Te'o was tfished to the whole thg while others believed he may be gay and was merely g the Kekua story as a way of hidg his relatnship wh Tuiasosopo.

Grer got an endorsement al wh Nike after she me out, markg the first time the pany had announced a partnership wh an openly gay athlete. Rodgers has flat out nied beg homosexual, but his former roommate has been persistent sayg they were more than iends. Someone told the prs there was a gay player on the Mets team.

IS TIM TEBOW GAY?

He is married to a mol and actrs Alicia Rickter they've been married sce 2005 so the mors of him beg gay are probably false.

Piazza addrsed the old mors aga a 2013 terview and proclaimed: "I was gay, I'd be gay all the way". He was talkg about fashn week and said "It was this one thg durg fashn week: I had my legs crossed, and they lled me gay, I've got my legs crossed, I'm chill', I'm gettg my grown man on at the event.

" Bosh also said a 2014 terview nobody would ll him gay if he was a thug sayg. After the divorce Amy started mors that Tim was bisexual and he was a gay relatnship wh someone while at Wake Fort. Wh those pictur me mors of him beg gay.

DO MATTER WHAT TIM TEBOW THKS ABOUT GAY ISSU?

So beg terted actg and molg mak you gay?

Kerry Rhos, former NFL safety has had to e out several tim and ny that he is gay, but the mors don't seem to go away. I am not gay. Durg his NBA reers, mors surfaced that Selby was the closet, eher as a homosexual, or at least bi-cur.

Rumors of his sexually spread by Skip Bayls sayg Aikman was gay. It was ls than a month after we lnched the se that Stewart publicly addrsed mors that he was gay, and that he had talked about wh his Ptsburgh Steelers teammat. How do we handle “mors” that so-and-so athlete is gay?

WATCH: TIM TEBOW LOOKS A LTLE GAY HERE

We knew that two gay guys wrg about sports was already gog to brg wh some raised eyebrows and doubt. While Jim had been out as a sports edor, gay guys wrg sports were few and far between.

We started Outsports — those very early days — simply as a place for gay men to e talk sports. Korll Stewart’s Players Tribune piece last week, tailg the personal and profsnal issu created by havg “gay” mors out there, explas why. To be sure, beg gay is not a bad thg.

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