When I was g up, “g out” was the phrase people ed when they acknowledged to the world that they were gay or lbian. It was a big al. In some s, end reers. Tore apart fai. But... was an important step. An important statement.
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SPORTS STARS WHO BATTLED GAY RUMORS
Anyone wonrg whether an NFL locker room would accept a gay teammate? Check out this terview wh Rsell "Hollywood" Simpson, the man who says he's Kerry Rhos's former lover (emphasis ours): * is russell rhodes gay *
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Anyone wonrg whether an NFL locker room would accept a gay teammate? So I don’t know if they were gay but you know…Surf Girls Hawai'i star says she has somethg lled 'duck syndrome'OffEnglishOh, right, and this me om the terview, too:Q: How was your sex life wh Kerry? Assumg Simpson's tellg the tth, he's passed along somethg far more important than his spired characterizatn of Rhos's sex life: Rhos's teammat knew that he was gay, and largely didn't md.
And the supposedly hasty, supposedly unfortunate outg of Rhos wasn't necsarily an outg at all; the people around Rhos knew he was we really supposed to believe, then, that an openly gay player would forever divi a locker room? Rell what CBS's Mike Freeman wrote a few weeks back when he reported that a gay NFL player might soon be outg himself: "This player's te ncern, I'm told, is not the reactn si an NFL locker room but outsi of .
Carl Nassib, a fensive end for the Las Vegas Rairs, posted on Instagram that he’s gay. * is russell rhodes gay *
The player fears he will suffer ser harm om homophobic fans, and that is the only thg preventg him om g out.
The stars were all mored to be gay... NFL hopeful Michael Sam me out as gay to his Universy of Missouri teammat 2013, then to ESPN as an "openly proud gay man" jt before the NFL draft 2014, makg him the first openly gay man to be drafted by an NFL team.
"I am not the only gay person the NFL, " he said 2015. In April 2013, 7-foot NBA center Jason Colls me out of the closet, makg him the first openly gay profsnal athlete to pete the four major sports leagu.