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• MEET STT FRANTZ, AN OPENLY GAY NFL DRAFT PROSPECT WH A CHANCE TO MAKE HISTORY
• STT FRANTZ WILL BE AN OUT GAY PLAYER ON AN NFL TEAM THIS SUMMER
• FRANTZ GAY
• UNIVERSY OF TEXAS FOOTBALL PLAYER WISH MORE GAY PLAYERS WOULD E OUT
• GAY S FRANTZ
• FRANTZ GAY

MEET STT FRANTZ, AN OPENLY GAY NFL DRAFT PROSPECT WH A CHANCE TO MAKE HISTORY

The Kansas State offensive tackle who me out publicly as gay 2017 is leavg behd the sport that brought him to the hight levels of llege athletics.

Pl, At has a thrivg gay scene. We should be so grateful to Frantz for showg every other gay athlete that ’s possible to be out and proud, even a major football program Kansas.

Frantz beg gay the locker room of a major Big 12 team — the Wildts went to a bowl game three of his four years startg — speaks volum. For people clgg to the argument that gay acceptance is a generatnal issue, Snyr’s support of Frantz should speak volum. Frantz uld eventually be the first openly gay man to play an NFL regular-season game.

STT FRANTZ WILL BE AN OUT GAY PLAYER ON AN NFL TEAM THIS SUMMER

In 2014, former Missouri fensive end Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted, landg wh the Rams as a seventh-round pick, but he was cut by the team before the regular season. Frantz, a sophomore at the time, was "sred" and "nervo" about revealg his sexual orientatn, but those feelgs fad when he saw how the group reacted.

That terview wh Rowe marked the first time Frantz spoke publicly about beg gay. He had known he was gay sce the fifth gra, but he didn't tell anyone close to him prr to the 2016 meetg. Bee this claratn appears gay director Franis Ozon's new film Frantz, sounds like an timate sexual revelatn.

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Ozon go om elegiac melodrama to heterosexual don't thk Ozon has lost nfince as a gay filmmaker and sold-out. Bee he's an artist, Ozon gay sensibily to transform a not-so-tradnal perd love story (based on Ernt Lubsch's 1933 Broken Lullaby) to an ever- epeng medatn on the meang of flips that old Hollywood irony of gay filmmakers disguisg their clatns behd the emotnal and stylistic flourish of heterosexual stori (women's pictur). Homosocial ctoms of a century ago are picted mostly--not as a polil statement but wh a ankns and sensivy that mak recent all-out gay films such as Akron, Those People and Moonlight appear timid, closeted and Frantz, Ozon dispens wh the storytellg and polil nventns of most gay films-- fact, he teas them profound ways.

Like the great World War I scen Terence Davi' Sunset Song, Frantz feels ceremonial, a lament that honors the ad while also buryg gay-film clich.

Ozon nnects gay sensibily to the long-honored exprsivens of movi that celebrate romantic grace and agape, big-L love. He and Frantz shared brotherly tras ("a meanor that is shy and stormy") that ually signify gay behavr. Through the story of Adrian and Anna's grief and shared passn, Ozon disvers means to greater, more universal, gay empathy.

UNIVERSY OF TEXAS FOOTBALL PLAYER WISH MORE GAY PLAYERS WOULD E OUT

But who is acclaimed around the world as one of the most acplished gay directors the world, has, throughout his reer, treasured the gifts of inic olr actrs (much like Ryan Murphy, the creator of such Amerin TV seri as “Amerin Horror Story” and the current “Fd: Bette vs. However, Ozon is much more terted creatg films that reflect a gay sensibily rather than alg wh homosexualy self.

As a moviegoer, if you happen to know that Ozon is gay, you uld be fiven if you jump to the ncln that the big secret of Adrien and Frantz volv somethg romantic. Stt Frantz is about to enter the NFL and jo a very small list of out gay men the history big-time pro sports. The now-former Kansas State Wildts offensive tackle me out publicly as gay 2017 and rocked the llege-football landspe.

G out as gay... Instead, his team and his ach — the legendary Bill Snyr — embraced Frantz for all of who he was, as we have seen time and time aga wh gay athlet llege sports. Now Frantz is poised to be selected the NFL Draft later this sprg as only the send publicly out gay athlete to be drafted, and he has a real chance to be the first out gay athlete on an NFL regular-season roster this fall.

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Will Frantz beg gay affect him the NFL Draft? Gay Amerins face a substantially more acceptg world 2020 than they did 2014. Wh Frantz g out publicly the summer of 2017, he has had three full NCAA seasons playg on the le of a Big 12 team as an out gay man.

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He showed that a gay athlete uld be accepted by teammat and a achg staff. The Rams’ fanbase showed that people the Bible Belt uld cheer for an out gay athlete. But the sad tth is that some teams might shy away om him bee he is gay.

But for every sut who might dg Frantz for beg gay, there’s the San Francis 49ers who have offered same-sex partner benefs to employe for 20 years and hired an out gay ach Katie Sowers. Some NFL ont-office executiv believe their team learship is so weak nnot quickly move past the sexual orientatn of a very good gay athlete. Frantz Gay We found 22 rerds for Frantz Gay FL, AZ and 9 other stat.