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Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib ma history Monday by beg the first active NFL player to e out as gay.

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CARL NASSIB OUT AS 1ST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

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NFL player Carl Nassib ma history Monday by announcg that he's gay. Did seem possible for me to say publicly and proudly that I'm gay, " he wrote. Universy of Missouri fensive end Michael Sam me out as gay 2014 before the St.

Carl Nassib on Monday beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. Carl Nassib has ma history as the first active NFL player to announce that he is gay.

Sam beme a trailblazer as the first openly gay athlete to be drafted by the NFL 2014. "I jt feel like bee I me out, I was the first one to do , I uld be a bean for other athlet who may be gay or may be not.

CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY

Before Nassib beme the first openly gay active NFL player, others paved the way — and paid a steep st. * gay nfl player comes out *

Michael Sam was the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team. He found a temporary home shortly thereafter when he signed a two-year ntract wh the Montreal Alouett 2015 and beme the first openly gay football player to play the Canadian Football League.

David Kopay me out as gay years after retirg om football. The board of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn had only voted to stop classifyg homosexualy as a mental illns 1973.

Carl Nassib this week beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay. And wh his announcement, the Las Vegas Rairs fensive end jos a small group of openly gay men profsnal sports. * gay nfl player comes out *

But he was, by all acunts, a pneer, wh Outsports scribg him 2019 as "the most signifint gay athlete morn history. Durg an terview wh NPR 2005, Kopay spoke on the difficulti of beg a gay man the world of football. "Beg gay dividual sports is one thg, but beg gay team sports is a whole 'nother, bee...

"That's why a lot of people say, `Well, gay people wouldn't f , ' bee their inty is so different. '" Other gay football players have siarly spoken out, remarkg on the stggl of beg closeted such a hyper-mascule world.

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