Terrell Thomas of New York Giants says NFL may not be ready for gay player - ESPN

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• NEW YORK GIANTS HOST GAY FOOTBALL LEAGUE CLIC WH NFL PLAYERS AND ACH
• ROY SIMMONS, EX-NY GIANT WHO ME OUT AS GAY AND HIV POSIVE, DI AT 57
• ROY SIMMONS, 57, LEMAN WHO LATER CAME OUT AS GAY, DI
• CB: NFL NOT READY FOR GAY PLAYER
• ROY SIMMONS DI AT 57; NFL PLAYER LATER ME OUT AS GAY
• GIANTS NTUE THEIR SUPPORT OF THE NEW YORK GAY FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• WILLIAMGAY
• WILLIAM GAY
• GAY EX-NY GIANTS LEMAN ALLEG SUPER BOWL DISCRIMATN

NEW YORK GIANTS HOST GAY FOOTBALL LEAGUE CLIC WH NFL PLAYERS AND ACH

The New York Giants last week hosted the New York Gay Football League at an event that featured LGBT flag football players, NFL ach and players, and a lot of love and celebratn. She said she was thrilled to be part of the event, part bee she has var LGBT people her life, and she has even participated a Gay Bowl wh the Natnal Gay Flag Football League.

“Gay, straight, rich, poor. “I have gay fay members, ” Thompson told Outsports.

ROY SIMMONS, EX-NY GIANT WHO ME OUT AS GAY AND HIV POSIVE, DI AT 57

The LGBT players the New York gay league said they were blown away by the event.

The relatnship between the NYGFL and the Giants dat back to 2007, when the Giants participated the Gay Bowl New York. “As the NFL mov toward havg more gay players g out the league, ’s important as more lears the NFL muny ntue to show support of the LGBT muny. The language around the team match that — she said she’s never heard a gay slur or homophobic language e out of anyone’s mouth.

ROY SIMMONS, 57, LEMAN WHO LATER CAME OUT AS GAY, DI

“I haven’t seen or heard anythg the locker room that would make anyone on the Giants seem homophobic, ” Thompson said.

CB: NFL NOT READY FOR GAY PLAYER

He poted out that there were var players who chose to be at the event for the gay football league. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon.

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021.The Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Roy Simmons, the fun-lovg Giants offensive leman who later beme the send former player NFL history to e out as gay, died his New York home last week at 57. Simmons said he went out of his way durg his NFL reer to hi his homosexualy.

ROY SIMMONS DI AT 57; NFL PLAYER LATER ME OUT AS GAY

He juggled affairs wh women and had a dghter wh one girliend, but he was also a regular at the cy's gay bathho and equented male hookers as well.

Simmons felt he had no choice except to hi the closet: "In the NFL, " Simmons said 2006, "there is nothg worse than beg gay.

GIANTS NTUE THEIR SUPPORT OF THE NEW YORK GAY FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE

You n beat your wife, but you better not be gay. "Carson said some teammat spected that Simmons was gay - and that didn't matter.

He was the send former NFL player to publicly clare his homosexualy. David Kopay, a nng back who played wh five NFL teams om 1964 to 1972, announced that he was gay 1975, Roy Simmons stggl wh his sexualy, tellg Pat Robertson's TV program 2005 that homosexualy go agast God's will. In 2005, Simmons appeared on TV evangelist Pat Robertson's show and said that homosexualy is agast God's Hter, an thor who helped Simmons get help for his addictn and health issu, said Simmons was glad to see locker rooms bee creasgly tolerant.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

He would have cheered the Nets' Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay athlete to play a major Amerin sport on Sunday, and Michael Sam, the Missouri fensive end who recently me out and is expected to be drafted by an NFL team later this year.

Players to have said publicly that they were gay — all after their playg reers end — died Thursday his apartment the Bronx.

Years later, 1992, appearg on “Donahue, ” Phil Donahue’s televisn talk show, and wh a former girliend and fay members watchg, Simmons ma a stunng, awkward disclosure: He was gay. Player to clare that he was homosexual.

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Draft May, Michael Sam, a fensive end om Missouri, is expected to be the first openly gay player drafted. “But if you’re gay, ’s like the ary: Don’t ask, don’t tell. ”Woolfolk said he knew of four players who were gay when he played.

WILLIAM GAY

”Even after he acknowledged he was gay, Simmons ncealed aspects of his troubled childhood for many years. The profile suggted that Simmons had e to believe that homosexualy was wrong, but his brother Gary said that was not the se.

Roy was a gay black man who me out of the South. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Roy Simmons, 57, Leman Who Later Came Out as Gay. Michael Sam's announcement that he is gay has been the story of the week the NFL, and players the league know the story is jt that reason and for others, New York Giants rnerback Terrell Thomas said Sam uld fd acceptance NFL locker rooms difficult to e by.

"Sam, an All-Amerin pass-sher at Missouri, announced he is gay durg an terview Sunday wh ESPN's "Outsi the L.

GAY EX-NY GIANTS LEMAN ALLEG SUPER BOWL DISCRIMATN

" Assumg he is drafted, Sam would bee the first openly gay player NFL said he was personally unsure about the suatn bee of his "views as a Christian, " and he was ncerned that players might act differently wh Sam around.