NFL proudly clar 'football is gay' new vio

Contents:

• 'FOOTBALL IS GAY': NFL RELEAS ACCEPTANCE VIO AMID CARL NASSIB COMG OUT, PRI MONTH
• NFL SHAR NEW VIO THAT SAYS ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• NFL RELEAS POWERFUL VIO, 'FOOTBALL IS GAY'
• GAY TEEN ASKS STRAIGHT FOOTBALL TEAM PTA TO HOMEG
• NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’: NFL SHAR VIO SUPPORT OF LGBTQ MUNY
• ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’—NFL RELEAS PRO-LGBT VIO AND HOMOPHOB MELT DOWN
• JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990
• NFL CLAR ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’ NEW PROMO VIO AFTER LAS VEGAS RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT
• NFL VIO PROCLAIMS 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' WAKE OF CARL NASSIB ANNOUNCEMENT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• NFL RELEAS COMMERCIAL SUPPORTG LGBTQ+ COMMUNY: “FOOTBALL IS GAY” [VIO]
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS HAVE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL COACH
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

'FOOTBALL IS GAY': NFL RELEAS ACCEPTANCE VIO AMID CARL NASSIB COMG OUT, PRI MONTH

Football is gay.

Acrdg to a report OutSports, the vio -- entled Football Is for Everyone -- is meant not jt to support Carl Nassib, the first active NFL player to e out as gay, but also let other players, as well as LGBTQ+ fans, know they're jt as important and wele.

"The first le to which Rapoport refers is the simple "football is gay" that appears on the screen to open the vio. "More than merely enuragg the LGBTQ+ muny to rema part of the league's fan base, the vio is also a statement on jt how far the league has progrsed on the issue of gay athlet. "Nassib famoly me out as gay a post to Instagram last week that has sce gone viral.

NFL SHAR NEW VIO THAT SAYS ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’

The NFL released a new vio on Monday statg that "Football is gay, " and that "Football is for everyone, " after Carl Nassib beme the first player to e out as gay last week. "As the vio begs, the first words that appear on the screen are "Football is gay. The vio then stat that the NFL supports the Trevor Project, which acrdg to s webse, is "the leadg natnal anizatn providg crisis terventn and suici preventn servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer & qutng (LGBTQ) young people unr 25.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

"The vio also clus a statistic which says that youth members of the LGBTQ muny "wh at least one acceptg adult, " have a 40 percent lower risk of attemptg vio released by the NFL shortly after Nassib, a fensive leman for the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active player to e out as ma his announcement a vio posted to his Instagram acunt, where he said, "I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay.

The NFL has released a new vio that clar “football is gay” durg Pri Month. The vio one week after Las Vegas Rairs player Carl Nassib me out as gay on social media, makg him the first active NFL player to do so.

NFL RELEAS POWERFUL VIO, 'FOOTBALL IS GAY'

The vio  a week after Las Vegas Rairs player Carl Nassib me out as gay on social media. In the NFL’s new vio, whe text cross the screen, readg, “Football is gay.

CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY. The subject was the impact of Carl Nassib g out as gay the NFL for the Las Vegas Rairs. Matea offensive leman Jake Strer, who is gay, is one of five current or former LGBTQ athlet profiled.

“When I returned to football my sophomore year after g out was bee I knew that if I qu football was jt the begng of thgs I would qu or hold myself back om bee I was gay, ” Strer told Outsports. “To fast forward to my last football game my senr year and have end wh ‘NFL 360’ there to clu me a story celebratg the first openly gay football player NFL history is still really unbelievable to me.

GAY TEEN ASKS STRAIGHT FOOTBALL TEAM PTA TO HOMEG

EST, we see scen of Strer’s last game as a Matea Mtang, terspersed wh him speakg about beg gay football and what Nassib’s g out meant to him. Their experienc are universal, ways good and bad, for many LGBTQ people — Pick talkg about the pa om the ial rejectn by her mom; O’Callaghan discsg suicidal thoughts before beg rcued by a therapist; Rapoport’s touchg rellectn of g out to NFL Commissner Roger Gooll by approachg him at a Super Bowl event holdg her girliend’s hand and Gooll’s se upon seeg ; Saffold discsg growg up Black and gay on the South Si of Chigo “where there are rampant levels of homophobia” and Strer on how he ed to worry “about how bad my life might be after I me out.

NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

“I thk 11- or 12-year-old kids playg football prr to Carl Nassib g out didn’t thk there uld be a gay football player, ” Rapoport said. Top Gay Moments In Football/Soccer - vio Dailymotn.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

Perkz/@rlnassib/@rkrelentls)When Kansas State offensive tackle and NFL hopeful Stt Frantz me out to the natn as gay, he shared that his teammat (to whom he'd e out earlier) had warmly received the news, a sign the most alpha of locker rooms may fally be ready for equaly.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

Here's a list of players llege and pro ball who have proved you n be gay or bi and still n the gntlet.

Roy "Sugar Bear" Simmons, an offensive leman for the New York Giants and Washgton Redsks, beme the send NFL player ever to publicly reveal he was gay. So Coach Vce Lombardi knew McDonald was gay when he took over learship of the team 1969, but ma clear there would be no discrimatn his locker room, those close to the legend say.

‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’: NFL SHAR VIO SUPPORT OF LGBTQ MUNY

Cornerback Wa Davis, who played preason wh the Tennsee Tans, Seattle Seahawks and Washgton Redsks and spent two seasons wh NFL Europe teams Berl Thunr and Barcelona Dragons, me out as gay 2012, nearly a after his retirement. He would later nfirm his sexualy on CNN and s down wh ESPN to discs the challeng of growg up gay Jamai and playg football while closeted. He later cled to sign wh the Tennsee Tans and Dallas Cowboys before g out as gay at 24, he told Philalphia Magaze revealed to the magaze that he'd dated a male cheerlear at Purdue who had threatened to out him then.

He would later move to San Francis and jo the Fog, a gay gby team, and pen a g-out blog post 2015. Wyatt Pertet, a special teams player and receiver for Capal Universy, will be a sophomore this season. 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 of 2021, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know.

"He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay. The Rairs leman ma NFL history durg Pri Month 2021 when he me out as gay a heartfelt Instagram post, beg the first active NFL player to e out as member of the LGBTQ+ muny. I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay.

‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’—NFL RELEAS PRO-LGBT VIO AND HOMOPHOB MELT DOWN

The Hampton Universy player ma history October of 2022 when he me out as gay an Instagram Story post, beg the first out gay football player at a Historilly Black College or Universy. "Speakg to OutSports, he ntued: "Especially at an HBCU, young Black gay men need an outlet.

There hasn't been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU. 'Football Is Gay'. Releasg a powerful vio Monday that featured the msage, "Football is gay.

JAKE DANIELS BE FIRST UK MALE FOOTBALLER TO E OUT AS GAY SCE 1990

A league spokperson nfirmed to Outsports on Monday the vio was a direct rponse to Las Vegas Rairs pass-sher Carl Nassib announcg he's gay last week.

NFL CLAR ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’ NEW PROMO VIO AFTER LAS VEGAS RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT

Gay teen asks straight football pta to homeg.

Gay teen asks straight football pta to homeg epic way. A gay 17-year-old asked his high school's straight football pta to the homeg dance, and vio of the epic "proposal" has gone viral.

"I know I'm gay, but n I take you straight to homeg? "It's very important for me to be gog to Homeg wh Alexanr bee I'm settg an example for not only my school, but also my muny, " Peda told Instct, which is a gay men's liftyle magaze. In a vio shared on Twter on Monday, the Natnal Football League clared, "Football is gay.

NFL VIO PROCLAIMS 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' WAKE OF CARL NASSIB ANNOUNCEMENT

"In whe letters on a black background, the word "gay" was then replaced wh words cludg "lbian, " "betiful, " "queer, " "transgenr, " "power" and "life. Nassib is the first active NFL player to e out as gay.

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

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I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

NFL RELEAS COMMERCIAL SUPPORTG LGBTQ+ COMMUNY: “FOOTBALL IS GAY” [VIO]

Player to publicly clare that he is gay. “I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt. I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth.

L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history.

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS HAVE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL COACH

”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N. The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N. Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Sam left the N.

Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over.

David Kopay beme the first pro football player to publicly e out as gay 1975, three years after he retired.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

He played for ne seasons wh the San Francis 49ers and four other teams the 1960s and 1970s, and has sce bee an activist and an ambassador for the Gay Gam, a quadrennial sportg Simmons was the send former player to announce that he was gay, dog so 1992 after his reer wh the Giants and Washgton Football Team had end.

Simmons also said he never would have clared himself gay durg the four seasons he played for the N. ”In recent years, the league has publicly supported Pri Month through promotnal efforts like changg official social media avatars to clu rabows and supportg the You Can Play Project, which provis rourc to enurage clivy youth sports, even as some players have ma rogatory statements about gay people wh ltle penalty or supported groups that oppose gay Wewerka for The New York TimIn 2013, Chris Culliver of the San Francis 49ers and Chris Clemons of the Seattle Seahawks ma offensive ments when asked about the prospect of havg a gay teammate.