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• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY HISTORIC NFL MOMENT
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS OPENLY GAY
• CARL NASSIB MAK RAIRS ROSTER, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL HISTORY
• CARL NASSIB GETTG SAME TREATMENT OM LAS VEGAS RAIRS AFTER ANNOUNCG HE IS GAY, DEREK CARR SAYS
• LAS VEGAS RAIRS' CARL NASSIB SAYS REACTN TO G OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER 'CREDIBLE'
• FORMER RAIRS, 49ERS OL KWAME HARRIS ADMS HE'S GAY
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• CARL NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY
• RAIRS' CARL NASSIB BE THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• CARL NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• RAIRS DL CARL NASSIB IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY
• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, SAYS HE’S DATG SOMEONE ‘AWOME’
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS GAY HISTORIC NFL MOMENT

Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib on Monday beme the first active NFL playerto e out as gay. I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay.

Acrdg to Outsports, 15 NFLers have e out after their reers end, while former Universy of Missouri star Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted to the NFL 2014.

Only until recently, thanks to my fay and iends, pecially Connor, Cason, and Francis, did seem possible for me to say publicly and proudly that I’m gay.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB OUT AS OPENLY GAY

The Las Vegas Rairs are releasg Carl Nassib, the fensive end who ma history last year as the first openly gay active player NFL history. “The Rairs, the NFL, have monstrated that they support this man as a gay man, ” Zeigler said, addg that Nassib’s succsful rerd will help him quickly fd a new team.

” Former NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan, who me out as gay June 2017, after his time the league, said Nassib’s reer monstrat that players do not need to promise their LGBTQ inti sports. Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib me out today, makg him the NFL’s only openly gay player.

“I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio he posted on his verified Instagram acunt. ”Nassib also announced that he is donatg $100, 000 to the Trevor Project, a nonprof anizatn that foc on suici preventn programs for LGBT openly gay player has ever played a regular-season NFL game.

CARL NASSIB MAK RAIRS ROSTER, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL HISTORY

Michael Sam me out as gay before the 2014 NFL draft, was drafted by the Rams and played for them the preason, but he did not make a regular season roster.

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon.

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021.The Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Carl Nassib ma the fal 53-man roster for the Las Vegas Rairs on Tuday, ensurg the NFL will see s first openly gay player on the field when the Rairs host the Baltimore Ravens Week 1 on Sept.

CARL NASSIB GETTG SAME TREATMENT OM LAS VEGAS RAIRS AFTER ANNOUNCG HE IS GAY, DEREK CARR SAYS

Nassib is one of 16 gay or bi men to play NFL history and will be the first to play a regular season game while out.

-- Las Vegas Rairs quarterback Derek Carr is ntug to show his support for teammate Carl Nassib, the first openly gay active player the NFL, and says he has seen no issu for the backup fensive end durg trag mp. "Nassib, who has yet to speak to the media at trag mp, announced he was gay on his Instagram page on June 21, addg that he would be donatg $100, 000 to The Trevor Project. -- Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib, the first openly gay active player the NFL, said Friday that the reactn has been "credible" his first public ments sce his announcement on Instagram on June, 28, talked about how much better he feels on the field sce the announcement, the receptn he received om Rairs teammat upon his arrival at trag mp and how he hop his announcement has helped others.

LAS VEGAS RAIRS' CARL NASSIB SAYS REACTN TO G OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER 'CREDIBLE'

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.

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

Harris is now sayg that he hop other gay athlet realize they’re not alone.

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

"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.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs’ Carl Nassib Announc He’s Gay, an N. FirstThe Rairs fensive leman me out a statement posted to his Instagram acunt on Monday, beg the first active player the league to publicly intify as gay.

CARL NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

ViotranscripttranscriptCarl Nassib Be First Openly Gay Active N. I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. 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.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY

“Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L.

”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.

RAIRS' CARL NASSIB BE THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

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.

CARL NASSIB BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

“Got no gay people on the team, ” Culliver said.

”San Francis nng back Garrison Hearst apologized 2002 for g a slur and sayg he wouldn’t want a gay player as a teammate.

His ment me after the former Mnota Vikgs player Esera Tuaolo publicly me out as gay that year after he had retired. Players like Brendon Ayanbajo, who played wh the Baltimore Ravens, fend same-sex marriage and gay rights and supported Sam at the time. Player to Announce He’s Gay.

RAIRS DL CARL NASSIB IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO E OUT AS GAY

It is no exaggeratn to say the world was watchg when Carl Nassib beme the first active player on an NFL roster to e out as gay.

However, after last Sunday’s playoff clchg performance, we n all proudly say that Carl’s g out was not one of those thgs for the anythg, the Rairs’ foc seemed to improve after fdg out that one of their team lears was a proud gay man. In Gn’s emails, he ed racist, misogynistic and homophobic ments and hate speech, which felt pecially upsettg and ironic om the first NFL ach wh an out athlete on his roster.

’ Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty ImagSo stands that wh an openly gay player on their roster, the Rairs return to the playoffs for the send time 19 years. Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib ed his Instagram acunt Monday to announce that he is gay, beg the first NFL player to e out while still active the league.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, SAYS HE’S DATG SOMEONE ‘AWOME’

“I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said. Only until recently, thanks to my fay and iends … did seem possible for me to say publicly and proudly that I’m gay.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. Rairs DL Carl Nassib shared this vio to social media and beme the first active NFL player to announce he is gay.

In 1975, former 49ers nng back Dave Kopay was the first profsnal team sport athlete to e out as gay, three years after his reer end. In 2014, Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team. Sam played a CFL regular-season game 2015, beg the first openly gay player to do so, but retired that year for mental health reasons.

Acrdg to, there have been 15 players the NFL’s 100-year history that have e out as eher gay or bisexual. In April, Colton Unrwood, who spent time on the practice squads of the Rairs, San Diego Chargers and Philalphia Eagl om 2014 to 2016, me out as gay.