Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib savored a “special night” Monday as he beme the first actively gay NFL player to feature a regular season game.
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- CARL NASSIB, THE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, MAK GAME-CHANGG PLAY 2021 BUT
- CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W
- RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
- GAY AND BI FORMER NFL PLAYERS EXCED TO SEE CARL NASSIB TAKE THE FIELD FOR RAIRS
- CARL NASSIB MAK RAIRS ROSTER, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL HISTORY
- TERRELL SUGGS, BALTIMORE RAVENS OUTSI LEBACKER, SAYS TEAM WOULD WELE A GAY PLAYER
- BALTIMORE RAVENS' BRENDON AYANBAJO ON MARRIAGE EQUALY, MATT BIRK, PRO-GAY PLAYERS
- LAS VEGAS RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB BE ONLY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO SAY HE’S GAY
CARL NASSIB, THE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, MAK GAME-CHANGG PLAY 2021 BUT
One of the big stori of the NFL's offseason was Nassib, the Rairs fensive leman who me out as gay. On Monday, his strip sack overtime saved the Rairs. * ravens gay player *
Carl Nassib, a very direct but rmal way, announced to the world a few months ago that he is gay.
CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W
Nassib beme the first openly gay NFL player to play a regular season game – and helped his team to a stunng victory. * ravens gay player *
"I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay, " Nassib said an Instagram vio.
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RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
The 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. * ravens gay player *
Nassib, who has played the NFL sce 2016, me out as gay earlier this year.
GAY AND BI FORMER NFL PLAYERS EXCED TO SEE CARL NASSIB TAKE THE FIELD FOR RAIRS
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CARL NASSIB MAK RAIRS ROSTER, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL HISTORY
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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.
TERRELL SUGGS, BALTIMORE RAVENS OUTSI LEBACKER, SAYS TEAM WOULD WELE A GAY PLAYER
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. “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.
BALTIMORE RAVENS' BRENDON AYANBAJO ON MARRIAGE EQUALY, MATT BIRK, PRO-GAY PLAYERS
”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. 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.
LAS VEGAS RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB BE ONLY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO SAY HE’S GAY
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.
“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.