Carl Nassib Is The First Active NFL Player To Come Out As Gay : NPR

Contents:

• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• N.F.L. PROSPECT MICHAEL SAM PROUDLY SAYS WHAT TEAMMAT KNEW: HE’S GAY
• THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY
• 7 GAY NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS
• CARL NASSIB OUT AS 1ST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH
• THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W
• TOP 10 GAY NFL PLAYERS WHO ARE TLY INSPIRATNAL
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY
• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
• BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly. Over the years, Outsports has known of a few other players who are gay but have never e out, even when retired.

Jenks is gay and this was the the first time he wily discsed his sexual orientatn. Perkz/@rlnassib/@rkrelentls)When Kansas State offensive tackle and NFL hopeful Stt Frantz me out to the natn as gay, he shared that his teammat (to whom he'd e out earlier) had warmly received the news, a sign the most alpha of locker rooms may fally be ready for equaly. Here's a list of players llege and pro ball who have proved you n be gay or bi and still n the gntlet.

Roy "Sugar Bear" Simmons, an offensive leman for the New York Giants and Washgton Redsks, beme the send NFL player ever to publicly reveal he was gay.

N.F.L. PROSPECT MICHAEL SAM PROUDLY SAYS WHAT TEAMMAT KNEW: HE’S GAY

So Coach Vce Lombardi knew McDonald was gay when he took over learship of the team 1969, but ma clear there would be no discrimatn his locker room, those close to the legend say.

THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY

Cornerback Wa Davis, who played preason wh the Tennsee Tans, Seattle Seahawks and Washgton Redsks and spent two seasons wh NFL Europe teams Berl Thunr and Barcelona Dragons, me out as gay 2012, nearly a after his retirement. He would later nfirm his sexualy on CNN and s down wh ESPN to discs the challeng of growg up gay Jamai and playg football while closeted. He later cled to sign wh the Tennsee Tans and Dallas Cowboys before g out as gay at 24, he told Philalphia Magaze revealed to the magaze that he'd dated a male cheerlear at Purdue who had threatened to out him then.

He would later move to San Francis and jo the Fog, a gay gby team, and pen a g-out blog post 2015.

7 GAY NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Wyatt Pertet, a special teams player and receiver for Capal Universy, will be a sophomore this season.

The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April of 2021, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. "He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay. The Rairs leman ma NFL history durg Pri Month 2021 when he me out as gay a heartfelt Instagram post, beg the first active NFL player to e out as member of the LGBTQ+ muny.

CARL NASSIB OUT AS 1ST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

The Hampton Universy player ma history October of 2022 when he me out as gay an Instagram Story post, beg the first out gay football player at a Historilly Black College or Universy.

"Speakg to OutSports, he ntued: "Especially at an HBCU, young Black gay men need an outlet.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTVioThe fensive leman om the Universy of Missouri spoke publicly about his sexual orientatn and uld bee the first openly gay player the Natnal Football Francis Peters for The New York TimFeb.

Sam set himself on a path to bee the first publicly gay player the Natnal Football League.

THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE

And he is dog so as he prepar to enter a league wh an overtly macho culture, where ntroversi over homophobia have attracted recent the pace of the gay rights movement has accelerated recent years, the sports dtry has changed relatively ltle for men, wh no publicly gay athlet the N. Sam uld bee a symbol for the untry’s gay rights movement or a flash pot a football culture war — or Sam, 24, is projected to be chosen the early rounds of the N.

In the past year or so, has been embroiled ntroversi rangg om antigay statements om players to reports that suts asked at least one prospective player if he liked girls.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W

Recently, Chris Kluwe, a punter, said that he was subject to homophobic language om ach and phed out of a job wh the Mnota Vikgs bee he volly supported same-sex marriage laws.

And last week, Jonathan Vilma, a New Orleans Sats lebacker, said an terview wh NFL Network that he did not want a gay teammate. But has never had a publicly gay the s, some players the major sports leagu did ltle to nceal their sexual orientatn, but they were not out to the public durg their reers.

Player John Amaechi 2007, both nsired pneers by many gay sprg, Jason Colls, a 12-year N.

TOP 10 GAY NFL PLAYERS WHO ARE TLY INSPIRATNAL

A ee agent, he has not been signed by another last year, Robbie Rogers, a former member of the Uned Stat natnal soccer team who later played profsnally England, revealed that he was gay after he announced his retirement. All have been supportive of his g out, he Sam said he began to wonr if he was gay his early teens, though he had a girliend high school.

It was after he arrived at Missouri 2009 that he realized for certa that he was gay. ”Last April, the Missouri athletic admistratn held diversy semars for all athlet, part of the You Can Play project, foced largely on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr issu. “Some people actually jt uldn’t believe I was actually gay, ” Mr.

Loosely lobbed homophobic remarks sudnly had a specific Sam played down that, too. And I knew that I was Michael Sam, who’s a Mizzou football player who happens to be gay.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER, ULD BE TURNG POT FOR MALE SPORTS

If someone on the street would have asked me, ‘Hey, Mike, I heard you were gay; is that te? “I gus they don’t want to ask a 6-3, 260-pound fensive leman if he was gay or not, ” Mr. The announcement today by former Patrts and Chiefs offensive leman Ryan O'Callaghan that he is gay brgs to seven the number of NFL known gay players NFL history who have played a regular season game.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

In addn, four other players who me out as gay were NFL trag mps, some playg preason gam. Kopay played wh two teammat who were gay: tight end Jerry Smh and nng back Ray McDonald. Legendary Packers and Redsks ach Vce Lombardi — who had an openly gay brother — knew that some of his players were gay.

In the Outsports article on O’Callaghan g out, longtime NFL executive Stt Pli says he has unseled gay NFL players before. Many NFL players have nfsed beg gay football players after retirement.

In 2014, Michael Sam a llege football player publicly me out as a gay football player.

CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY

If he achiev this feat, he will bee the first active gay football player the NFL.

Here we take a look at all the other gay football players who played the NFL. In 1975 he beme the first profsnal NFL football player to e out as gay.

He is a board member of the Gay and Lbian Athletics Foundatn and is also the Gay Gam Ambassador of the Feratn of Gay Gam.

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER, TO BE RELEASED BY RAIRS

Smh never ma public about his homosexualy but later after his ath, was nfirmed by his relativ that he was a gay. In 1992, he clared himself a homosexual on The Phil Donahue Show. In 2002, Esera Tuaolo former NFL football player publilly clared to be a gay.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

He beme the third NFL player to e out as a gay, after David Kopay and Roy Simmons. He has also ttified at the State Legislature Senate Judiciary Commtee hearg opposn to an anti-gay-marriage bill. Wa Davis the former NFL fensive back me out of his closet 2012, clarg himself to be a gay.

Davis is a board member of the New York Gay Football League and of the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network sport-advisory. Soon his parents cid to send Harris away om his hometown for further tn to hi is homosexual his retirement om Amerin football, Kwame Harris 2013 publilly revealed of beg a homosexual an terview wh CNN. NFL player Carl Nassib ma history Monday by announcg that he's gay.

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

Did seem possible for me to say publicly and proudly that I'm gay, " he wrote. Universy of Missouri fensive end Michael Sam me out as gay 2014 before the St. Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars football team, me out as gay on Thursday an terview wh the LGBTQ sports-foced webse Outsports.

BEFORE CARL NASSIB, MICHAEL SAM WAS THE NFL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRAFT PICK. HE NEVER PLAYED A REGULAR SEASON GAME.

That signatn mak Maxen the first out gay male ach — of any level — men’s U.