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• ROBBIE ROGERS TAK FIELD AS 1ST OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER U.S. PRO SPORTS MATCH
• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS
• GAY SOCCER STAR ROBBIE ROGERS: LIVG CLOSET 'CREAT THIS MONSTER SI YOU'

ROBBIE ROGERS TAK FIELD AS 1ST OPENLY GAY MALE PLAYER U.S. PRO SPORTS MATCH

Rogers be the first openly gay male athlete to pete Major League Soccer.

Robbie Rogers beme the first openly gay male athlete to play a pro Amerin sportg match Sunday when he took the field for Major League Soccer’s Los Angel Galaxy durg a rout of the Seattle Sounrs. Before the game, Los Angel native Jason Colls, a pro basketball player who announced last month that he was gay, tweeted Rogers to say good luck. Rogers was troduced as the newt member of the Los Angel Galaxy on Saturday, makg him the first openly gay male athlete Major League Soccer and endg his brief retirement.

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

Natnal team, had retired om soccer Febary at age 25, announcg then that he is gay.

HERE ARE EIGHT OUT AND PROUD MALE GAY FOOTBALLERS

“I kept my secret bee I thought I uldn’t be both a soccer player and a gay athlete, ” Rogers said. Rogers isn’t the only trailblazer for male gay athlet Amerin profsnal sports. Twelve-year NBA veteran Colls announced he was gay, but he has not played a game sce he ma the announcement.

Football, like any other game, also has many gay players.

GAY SOCCER STAR ROBBIE ROGERS: LIVG CLOSET 'CREAT THIS MONSTER SI YOU'

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.