Jeff Garcia: 'I'm Not Gay' - Outsports

Contents:

• JEFF GARCIA: 'I'M NOT GAY'
• MOMENT #61: TERRELL OWENS IMPLI THAT HIS FORMER TEAMMATE JEFF GARCIA IS GAY
• OWENS, GARCIA AND GAY
• SO JEFF GARCIA IS GAY HUH...
• THE GAY NFL SUPERSTARS

JEFF GARCIA: 'I'M NOT GAY'

"I've heard the mor myself that I'm gay, " Garcia said an terview wh Matt Mac, 49ers beat wrer for the Santa Rosa Democrat nducted the week of the 49ers' fal game of the regular season.

Most of centers on his mannerisms and voice, which have set off the gaydar of many a fan.

" Garcia willgly discsed the gay mors, Mac told Outsports.

MOMENT #61: TERRELL OWENS IMPLI THAT HIS FORMER TEAMMATE JEFF GARCIA IS GAY

Garcia said he has heard rogatory words, apparently of the homophobic variety, hurled at him opposg stadiums, pecially Oakland and Philalphia.

OWENS, GARCIA AND GAY

In 2000, boxer Lennox Lewis, who liv wh his mother and has a poodle, told a London paper that he's not gay.

In 2002, New York Mets tcher Mike Piazza held a prs nference to ny that he's gay, followg a bld mor the New York Post.

SO JEFF GARCIA IS GAY HUH...

And January, Cleveland Indians mor league pcher Kazuho Tadano said he's not gay, spe his appearance a gay porn film. Off the field, Garcia publicly clared his heterosexualy after former teammate Terrell Owens said he was gay.

2004 Update: Owens on Garcia Beg Gay. Part of Outsports’ seri on our 100 most important moments gay sports history. When Owens left for the Philalphia Eagl 2004, he did an terview wh Playboy and was asked if Garcia was gay.

Garcia had nied that he was gay months before (he would later marry Playboy Playmate Carmella DeCare and have a child to prove ) and Owens tried to backpedal, though he never did expla how else his "rat" ment uld be terpreted. Terrell Owens impli that Jeff Garcia is gay.

THE GAY NFL SUPERSTARS

A Google News search turns up 150 media sourc that have n wh the story, and ESPN voted a segment to the issue, spng to a larger “homosexuals the NFL angle.