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It’s a Sunday afternoon and three overlords of the Texas Gay Roo Associatn — which is exactly what sounds like — have ngregated to drk about “A Texas Tradn,” their big annual chary roo this weekend Denton.

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GAY FORMER DALLAS PLAYER JEFF ROHRER AND HIS HBAND WELED AT COWBOYS RNN

The Cowboys weled all of their alumni — cludg out gay former player Jeff Rohrer — to their home opener. * dallas gay cowboys *

Jeff Rohrer didn’t thk he uld e out as gay to his Dallas Cowboys teammat the 1980s. Now the former Cowboys lebacker, who me out as gay and married his hband a few years ago, knows his former teammat accept him and his hband for who they are.

Gay former Yale football player Jeff Rohrer attends the Yale-Harvard game wh his hband, Joshua Ross. Other former Cowboys have publicly exprsed their support for gay rights, cludg Hall of Famer Michael Irv. It’s powerful to see the NFL club emed “Ameri’s team” so posively support a gay former player.

While perceptns of homophobia the NFL persist, the current and former players are monstratg the league is welg.

GAY FORMER DALLAS PLAYER JEFF ROHRER AND HIS HBAND WELED AT COWBOYS RNN

The Cowboys weled all of their alumni — cludg out gay former player Jeff Rohrer — to their home opener. * dallas gay cowboys *

”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.

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

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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 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. “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.

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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.

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.

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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. 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.

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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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The chance to e out publicly as gay. Last year they attend the weddg of a gay uple — Josh’s iends New York.

It’s a lson var gay former profsnal athlet have learned.

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The weddg has ma easier to tell the people around him that he’s gay. To be sure, the Bucs have their own history wh the LGBTQ muny, namely a really gay former logo, a tight end Rob Gronkowski who’s profsed his love for the gays, and the last team RK Rsell played for a regular-season game before g out.

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