8 openly gay, bi llege football players played season on their terms - Outsports

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• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS
• THERE ARE 7 OPENLY GAY OR BI LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS THIS SEASON
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• CONOR COADY EXCLIVE: OPENLY GAY PLAYER AT TOP LEVEL WOULD BE ACCEPTED "WHOUT A DOUBT"
• 8 OPENLY GAY AND BI LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS PLAYED SEASON ON THEIR TERMS
• BE OF FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER HAS MOB ROOTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• ARIZONA WILDTS' MY-KG JOHNSON TO MAKE NCAA HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP PLAYER
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY HBCU FOOTBALL PLAYER SPOTLIGHTS STIGMA OF HOMOSEXUALY IN THE BLACK COMMUNY
• BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN
• OPENLY GAY EX-LLEGE PLAYER GETS EMOTNAL ABOUT CARL NASSIB'S ANNOUNCEMENT: 'RPECT'

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS

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.

THERE ARE 7 OPENLY GAY OR BI LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS THIS SEASON

“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. College football season starts full this weekend and seven openly gay or bi players will take the field var divisns.

Among those g back is Wyatt Pertet, a wi receiver who ma history last year by beg the first openly gay llege football player to sre a touchdown a game. If even jt 1% of all players intified as gay or bi, that would leave 810. Cy Hicks, a College of Idaho (NAIA) offensive leman who will be a sophomore.

Christian Zevogel, a Kalamazoo College (Michigan Divisn III) offensive leman who will be a sophomore. England star Conor Coady believ a top level player g out as gay would be accepted a drsg room but lled for more work to be done tacklg homophobia , who recently signed for Leicter Cy om Wolv, won the Football Ally Award the 2021 Brish LGBT Awards and has been very vol about the is now supportg the Alli Uned, an iative which has seen Jt Eat partner wh Football vs Homophobia a bid to crease LGBTQIA+ clivy wh the grassroots aim is to create hundreds of “ally clubs” through ee urs and workshops and after a Jt Eat survey found that over three quarters (78%) of people om the LGBTQIA+ muny would not nsir playg grassroots football.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN IS FIRST AMERIN MALE PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

While 90 per cent of grassroots football clubs say they wele anyone no matter their sexual orientatn or how they intify, 18 per cent of the LGBTQIA+ muny said they would not feel nfint playg football bee of ncerns over homophobic and transphobic language addn, 15 per cent ced a lack of feelg weled as a member of the muny as a factor, wh 14 per cent strsg there is not enough nversatn around LGBTQIA+ allyship. "To apply to jo Alli Uned wh Jt Eat and Football vs Homophobia, vis for tails on how to make your team more clive.

CONOR COADY EXCLIVE: OPENLY GAY PLAYER AT TOP LEVEL WOULD BE ACCEPTED "WHOUT A DOUBT"

For six of the eight openly gay or bi llege football players, 2019 has marked the end of their llegiate reers, wh five graduatg and one cidg to stop playg football. Of the eight teams that had an openly gay or bi player, four played on teams wh wng rerd and four on teams wh losg rerds. By beg openly gay while playg our most popular sport, the athlet upend what long had been a stereotype of the impossibily of out players thrivg football.

8 OPENLY GAY AND BI LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS PLAYED SEASON ON THEIR TERMS

Here is how the eight gay or bi players and their teams fared this season:. Frantz, openly gay, is the team’s startg left tackle and will play his fal llegiate game the Wildts’ bowl game, which will be termed this weekend. Capal went 0-10, but Pertet end his reer wh a distctn 2018 of the beg the first openly gay player to sre a llege football touchdown.

Cy Hicks, College of Idaho (NAIA) offensive leman, sophomore. Hicks, openly gay, redshirted after season-endg surgery for a torn labm. Saffold, openly gay, had 21 tackl and three terceptns for the 4-5 Mammoths.

BE OF FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER HAS MOB ROOTS

Christian Zevogel, Kalamazoo College (Michigan Divisn III) offensive leman, sophomore. Zevogel, who is gay, cid to end his football reer at season’s end, cg a ncsn he suffered Augt and the sire to pursue his amic terts.

Johnson, openly gay, played six gam wh seven tackl for New Mexi Milary his first game actn two years after stg out his hman season at Arizona. The eight were the only players who were publicly out about beg gay or bi and my hope for 2020 is that they are joed by others. Image source, Andy Trigg/BBCImage ptn, The mural took the graffi artist eight hours to pleteA mural of Jt Fashanu, the first profsnal football player to e out as gay, has been pated on the si of a pub Norwich.

Fashanu grew up Norfolk and signed for Norwich the late source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Former Norwich Cy striker Jt Fashanu me out as gay 1990 while still playg profsnal football"He means a lot to a lot of people, pecially Norfolk, " said Christian Hodgkson, landlord of the Fat Cat and Canary on Thorpe Road, close to the cy centre stadium.

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

"Beg the first player to e out as gay, and obvly beg black as well, he faced a lot of adversy. After Missouri fensive end Michael Sam, left, beme the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL, he planted this kiss on boyiend Vo Cammisano (AP Photo/ESPN) (AP2014)The man on the other end of a kiss om the NFL's first openly gay player -- a picture that some say changed the game forever -- is a llegiate swimmer who was born to Kansas Cy mob royalty. One Miami Dolphs player was discipled for llg the picture "horrible, " while gay rights advot rejoiced.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Kev Maxen is gay.

No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself. Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017.

Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

ARIZONA WILDTS' MY-KG JOHNSON TO MAKE NCAA HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP PLAYER

Johnson talks about football, fay and his this: he is set to bee the first active openly gay scholarship player major-llege football mid-July, Stt Frantz, a Kansas State offensive leman told ESPN's Holly Rowe that he me out to his teammat 2016, makg Frantz and Johnson the first two openly gay active players FBS when the 2017 season kicks told Rowe that he hoped his cisn to "go public wh the fact he is gay" would help others feel Johnson told UA assistant Vce Amey about his sexualy while beg reced, the ach's reactn — "We want you to be a Wildt" — was exactly what he wanted to, the 17-year-old is an untentnal trailblazer.

”Beg gay, Johnson says, is simply a part of who he is.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS

Arizona State offensive leman Chip Saraf, a walk-on, told his teammat he was gay later that year. “It is gog to, until many generatns die off, is still gog to be a stereotype, that gay men are weak and n’t play sports and n’t play big, tough sports like football, " said Cyd Zeigler, the -founr of "Even wh fensive ends like Esera Tuaolo and Michael Sam — big, strong, mascule men — g out, we still have the stereotype. But the ia that Johnson will be a pneer beg an openly gay athlete also has the ach "pretty exced.

"I n’t wa to be like, ‘Yeah, I got to ach the first openly gay kid to be an All-Pac-12 fensive end, ' ” he said. “Then I worry about him beg a football jock, then I worry about him beg gay bee ’s still not so accepted.

Everybody perceiv him as a dumb jock bee he is a football star, which he’s not, but then you’re gay and a football player? ”The support Johnson has received don't surprise Zeigler, the -founr of “Unfortunately, we ntue to talk about sports as if gay athlet should be aaid. "FROM 2014: ASU non-scholarship player Saraf announc he is gayMORE: ASU's Saraf has joed the revolutn, and serv our support.

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

“I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the fensive leman for the Las Vegas Rairs said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt Monday. And while someone g out 2021 might not feel like a big al, wh that simple statement, Nassib beme the first openly gay active player NFL that simple statement, Nassib beme the first openly gay active player NFL history.

Though there are many openly queer women profsnal sports, the same nnot be said for homophobia of men’s sports culture has been well documented. Ranks the worst when to homophobia athletics. Currently, there is only one openly gay player on a profsnal men’s team the “big five” Amerin sports: Soccer player Coll Mart of the USL Champnship League (Mart me out 2018 as a member of Major League Soccer’s Mnota Uned) NFL has existed for 101 years, and that time, there has never been a player on an active NFL roster who has publicly acknowledged his gayns.

This, of urse, don’t mean there haven’t been closeted gay players.

FIRST OPENLY GAY HBCU FOOTBALL PLAYER SPOTLIGHTS STIGMA OF HOMOSEXUALY IN THE BLACK COMMUNY

In 2014, Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted by an NFL team, when the St. (In 2015, he beme the first openly gay player the Canadian Football League when he spent a season wh the Montreal Alouett. This is where misogyny to play, maniftg a culture of homophobia.

BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

To be a gay man is to face beg stereotyped as weak or effemate — the oppose of what a football player, or an athlete, is “supposed” to be. ““In llege, football was a great ver for beg gay, ” O’Callaghan told Outsports 2017.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN

” Davis remembers spendg $1, 500 at a strip club an attempt to nceal the fact that he was gay om his spe society’s evolvg attus, the sports world seems to be movg far slower to mornize and stigmatize. “I thk ’s safe to say there’s at least one on every team who is eher gay or bisexual, ” O’Callaghan speculated 2019. When Kansas State offensive tackle and NFL hopeful Stt Frantz me out to the natn as gay last week, 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.

So, wh two gay players takg the field the top tier of llege football this season, has the future fally charged onto the turf? Here's a list of players llege and pro ball who have proved you n be gay or bi and still n the KopayRunng back Dave Kopay, who signed wh the San Francis 49ers 1964, would play for five teams before hangg up his jersey 1972.

OPENLY GAY EX-LLEGE PLAYER GETS EMOTNAL ABOUT CARL NASSIB'S ANNOUNCEMENT: 'RPECT'

Coach Vce Lombardi had apparently nfid Smh that he knew of his sexualy but would never let impact him negatively; Lombardi's brother was also gay.