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• GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED
• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED
• FORMER COWBOYS LEBACKER OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC WEDDG
• A RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER SAYS A NEW TERVIEW HE IS GAY, AND ANNOUNCED HIS PLANS TO MARRY A SKRE MAGNATE
• FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS FIRST MARRIED OUT GAY EX-NFL PLAYER
• FORMER DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER JEFF ROHRER MARRYG HIS GAY PARTNER
• THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE
• THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS
• FORMER DALLAS COWBOY OUT AS GAY, SET TO BEE FIRST NFL PLAYER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY

“If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately, ” Rohrer said. Acrdg to the report, he has also has created oil patgs of his former Dallas Cowboys ach, Tom Landry, as well as former Green Bay Packers head ach Vce Lombardi and former Red Sox outfielr Ted were only seven prevly known gay players the history of the NFL, acrdg to SB Natn.

”The kdns of my iends and my fay and my teammat” he said, his voice tremblg, psg between words, dog everythg he uld to exprs the sudn joy that enveloped his new gay life. He had never, while he was playg the NFL for the Cowboys or at any pot durg his marriage to his wife, dated men, had a boyiend or had any kd of gay experience.

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

Jeff Rohrer is a man on a missn to open hearts and mds to gay people. For an after-work cktail at the popular gay Wt Hollywood waterg hole, Tortilla Republic.

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

“My experience is that people are born gay, and anyone who wants to dispute that I’d be happy to have a nversatn wh them, cludg Mike Pence. At least at this pot our society, toughns is not associated wh the gay muny. Dpe the perceptn, Rohrer isn’t sure he ever heard a gay slur the Cowboys locker room.

FORMER COWBOYS LEBACKER OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC WEDDG

Nothg was anti-gay. In that nversatn The Playmaker said he believed that if a teammate had e out as gay to the rt of the Cowboys the 1990s, they would have accepted him and moved on. Whether or not there were gay slurs thrown around the locker room, there is a machismo virtually every football locker room that seems to send an unspoken msage exudg heterosexism.

In the 1970s we know that multiple Washgton football players – Dave Kopay, Jerry Smh, Ray McDonald – were gay, and that some of their teammat knew about them.

A RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER SAYS A NEW TERVIEW HE IS GAY, AND ANNOUNCED HIS PLANS TO MARRY A SKRE MAGNATE

Var Hoton Oilers om the early 1990s have spoken publicly about knowg or assumg that at least two of their teammat were gay. Gay acceptance is prent football. At a time when acceptance of gay people is at an all-time high, there are still rners of our culture where homophobia ns rampant.

FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS FIRST MARRIED OUT GAY EX-NFL PLAYER

Beyond fdg a happs he never thought possible for himself, he now has the opportuny to break to the dark rners of that culture where anti-gay sentiment fters. If was hard to not like him when he was straight and married to a woman, for those very same people will now be hard to not like him now that he’s gay and marryg a man. Until jt this year he uldn’t get his head around the ia that this extend fay would ever accept him as a gay man.

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FORMER DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER JEFF ROHRER MARRYG HIS GAY PARTNER

The weddg has ma easier to tell the people around him that he’s gay. Retired NFL lebacker Jeff Rohrer is gay and set to bee the first former or current NFL player a same-sex marriage, he revealed a new terview published on Wednday. Said Rohrer, “If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately.

THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE

He told the Tim, “People are born gay, as I was, though beg gay was jt somethg that had no place durg the urse of my football life.

Retired NFL lebacker Jeff Rohrer is gay and set to bee the first former or current NFL player a same-sex marriage, he revealed a new terview published on the New York Tim story, Rohrer, 59, opened up about his sexualy for the first time. Followg his ex om the NFL, Rohrer pursued his passn for visual art and currently works Rohrer, “If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately. RELATED: Football Player wh One Hand Hop to Make History the NFL DraftHe told the Tim, “People are born gay, as I was, though beg gay was jt somethg that had no place durg the urse of my football life.

Jeff Rohrer, a former Dallas Cowboys lebacker, me out as gay Wednday an terview The New York Tim. “If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately, ” Rohrer told the Tim. ”Rohrer jos a very small club of former NFL players who have e out as gay.

THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS

Retired Dallas Cowboys lebacker Jeff Rohrer has e out as gay and revealed his plans to marry celebry skre magnate Joshua Rohrer is not the first former NFL player to reveal he was gay, he will be the first current or former player known to be a same-sex marriage, acrdg to The New York Tim. "If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately, " Rohrer told the Tim. The marriage end a divorce a told OutSports that he didn't have a gay sexual experience until after he was out of the NFL and after his marriage end — but the secret tormented him.

FORMER DALLAS COWBOY OUT AS GAY, SET TO BEE FIRST NFL PLAYER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

"So many nights I cried myself to sleep, feelg like I was the Wolfman, or Jekyll and Hy, or Frankenste, some kd of monster that only out when ’s a full moon, always livg the shadows, " he and Ross met at a gay bar Wt Hollywood a few years ago, when Rohrer wasn't yet out of the more: 9 maps show how different LGBTQ rights are around the worldBut now that he’s out and gettg married, he said he feels “revived.