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Contents:
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: TROY AIKMAN SAYS BEG GAY ‘IS NOT MY LIFTYLE’
- SKIP BAYLS 'DUMBFOUND' TROY AIKMAN GOT UPSET OVER GAY CLAIM
- THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
- CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W
- GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: TROY AIKMAN SAYS BEG GAY ‘IS NOT MY LIFTYLE’
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Today, our most-read story om 2015: Troy Aikman said that beg gay is “a liftyle people choose. Is Troy Aikman gay? The qutn stems om a Skip Bayls book which he surmised that Aikman might be gay.
This is the mantra that so many anti-gay people have ed for generatns now, that we’re all the same and that some people simply choose to have gay relatnships.
SKIP BAYLS 'DUMBFOUND' TROY AIKMAN GOT UPSET OVER GAY CLAIM
Fifteen years ago, Skip Bayls wrote a book about the Dallas Cowboys lled Hell Bent, and that book Bayls lved to mors that then-Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman was gay. * cowboys gay quarterback *
But the flip si that they don’t thk about is that people - some of them gay people - simply choose not to have a same-sex relatnship. We saw that “choice” play out on TLC’s show “My Hband’s Not Gay” earlier this week. Whether you ll “homosexual” or “same-sex attractn” or whatever - the guys are gay and straight relatnships.
If gay men simply make a “choice” to date men, then gay men - like TLC’s stars, maybe like Aikman - also simply make a “choice” to date women. Skip Bayls and Troy Aikman haven't seen each other sce the former Dallas lumnist wildly speculated that the ex-Cowboys quarterback was gay.
"No one who read that book thought Troy Aikman was gay. 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.
THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE
“While he was workg on the book Skip would ll me all exced and tell me that he got rmatn about Troy beg the back of a r a gay area of Melrose, ” says Dean Blevs, the veteran Dallas rad host.
To be sure, the Bucs have their own history wh the LGBTQ muny, namely a really gay former logo, a tight end Rob Gronkowski who’s profsed his love for the gays, and the last team RK Rsell played for a regular-season game before g out.
Yet the Cowboys have a ep, rich history wh gay athlet and the LGBTQ muny that we want to highlight head to the NFL season kickoff. The Cowboys have had at least 3 gay or bi players. Durg his time wh the team, owner Jerry Jon said him beg gay is “a ad issue.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
Troy Aikman mors, and his own thoughts on choosg to be gay. It’s no secret that gay mors have swirled for years around quarterback-turned-TV-mentator Troy Aikman.
CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W
Aikman threw fuel on the fire 2015 when he sentially said that he’s chosen to not date men, claimg that beg gay is “a liftyle people choose. Michael Irv leads on acceptance of gay people, same-sex marriage. Years before the legalizatn of same-sex marriage or Michael Sam g out, “The Playmaker” Michael Irv talked about his love for his gay brother and his acceptance of same-sex marriage eply powerful ways.
GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
Then-Cowboys top receiver Dez Bryant talked about his mother beg gay 2010, sayg that he had stggled wh but had eventually e around to beg “fortable” wh .