3 gay football players featured NFL Network segment on Carl Nassib - Outsports

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• IT WAS A SIMPLE TEAM PHOTO, BUT MEANT THE WORLD TO GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER
• THIS GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER IS BEG HONORED FOR BOOSTG LGBTQ PRI HIS HOMETOWN
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY TEEN ASKS STRAIGHT FOOTBALL TEAM PTA TO HOMEG
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER REVEALS WHAT SHOWERG WH TEAMMAT IS REALLY LIKE
• GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER AND SWIMMER BOYIEND DANCE NIGHT AWAY AT PROM
• SUPPORTERS OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER DROWN OUT WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH MONSTRATN AGAST HIM
• FIRST OPENLY GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER SIGNED BY MAJOR COLLEGE TEAM, MOTHER MA SURE THEY ‘WEREN’T ON WELFARE’
• GAY DATG ATHENS
• GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR, OUT TO TEAMMAT SCE MIDDLE SCHOOL, NEVER HEARD A GAY SLUR

IT WAS A SIMPLE TEAM PHOTO, BUT MEANT THE WORLD TO GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER

15-year-old sophomore Jake Strer serly thought of qutg his Illois football team after beg outed, but he cid to embrace who he was and ma all the difference.

Their embrace of me was somethg I never expected after a year of anxiety and stggle of g to terms wh beg gay.

Two weeks after I me out to my parents, right after my football season had end, I went on Snapchat and posted the gay flag emoji on my story.

THIS GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER IS BEG HONORED FOR BOOSTG LGBTQ PRI HIS HOMETOWN

I was bldsid when some kid who I really didn’t know my last perd class kept g LGBTQ slurs while knowg I was gay. I didn’t know how to handle beg outed, how to handle g out to my fay or people at my school, and I fely didn’t know how to handle gay bashg. Jake Strer, 15, is a sophomore at Metea Valley High School Aurora, Illois, and an offensive and fensive leman on his high school football team.

His favore football memory happened durg his sophomore season, when he revered the ball on fense, and everybody on his team went wild. -- 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 '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. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

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. "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.

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

“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. “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.

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. 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.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

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.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

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.

GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER REVEALS WHAT SHOWERG WH TEAMMAT IS REALLY LIKE

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. 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.

GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER AND SWIMMER BOYIEND DANCE NIGHT AWAY AT PROM

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. But tak guts to e out and reveal one’s genr as gay, which is ually an act of urage a world that is not ndned to accept every genr.

SUPPORTERS OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER DROWN OUT WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH MONSTRATN AGAST HIM

Even though has already been three s sce Jt Fashanu first publicly me out as gay, there are only a few of them revealg . The primary reason behd many gay footballers not revealg their sexualy publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pch.

So, many profsnal leagu, teams, and players are raisg their voic to fight back agast homophobia so that gay footballers don’t face backlash while g out. In 2020, durg the San Diego Loyal match agast Phoneix Risg FC, Mart released a story of homophobic sults directed toward him.

One of the hight-profile male football players publicly clarg himself as gay is German footballer Thomas Hzlsperger. Anton Hysen is the youngt son of retired Swedish footballer Glenn Hysen and one of the gay players football.

FIRST OPENLY GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER SIGNED BY MAJOR COLLEGE TEAM, MOTHER MA SURE THEY ‘WEREN’T ON WELFARE’

Later, he was profiled on Swedish broadstg channel TV4 March 2011 a bate show (Can gays play football too? Likewise, he also participated the 7th edn of the realy TV show Lets Dance and beme the first-ever gay to w the ntt. Likewise, The Jt Fashanu All-stars football special event started Brighton to honor him and promote homosexualy football.

In June 2020, former profsnal footballer Tomas Beattie me out as gay durg an Amerin sports channel ESPN terview. Furthermore, he is one of the send Brish football players to publicly e out as gay after Jt Fashanu did 30 years ago.

GAY DATG ATHENS

Therefore, a suable environment should be created through tn as a drivg factor, so gay footballers don’t feel prsured to reveal their sexualy. To any athlete aaid of havg an openly gay teammate:Let’s first talk showers and football, sce that seems to be a big ncern for some players, pecially light of Michael Sam g out.

GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR, OUT TO TEAMMAT SCE MIDDLE SCHOOL, NEVER HEARD A GAY SLUR

I don’t thk your remarks about gays not beg accepted the NFL, and beg nervo about beg the shower wh a gay teammate e om a place of hate.

This will make you a happier person, and you n then be happy to get to know other ’s sad that people don’t realize that negative ments about gay athlet are hurtful. Comments that gays won’t be accepted profsnal sports will soon be jt as offensive as sayg women n’t play sports.

Scerely, Stt CooperA gay athleteStt Cooper is a December 2013 graduate of Augsburg College Mneapolis wh a B. Our list of ne feature-length LGBTQ sports documentari that provi behd-the-scen glimps of heroism and homophobia athletics was such a h, we’re followg up wh a look at feature-length narrative LGBTQ sports films. Intertgly, this film was directed by gay producer Greg Berlanti (hband of gay soccer player Robbie Rogers) and stars actor John Mahoney who lived the glass closet until his 2017 ath.