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• OPENLY GAY EX-LLEGE PLAYER GETS EMOTNAL ABOUT CARL NASSIB'S ANNOUNCEMENT: 'RPECT'
• KANSAS STATE FOOTBALL PLAYER STT FRANTZ REVEALS HE IS GAY, SAYS HE IS 'SO ACCEPTED' BY TEAM
• KANSAS STATE FOOTBALL PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY
• KANSAS STATE LEMAN STT FRANTZ TOLD TEAMMAT HE IS GAY BEFORE HE TOLD HIS FAY
• TOP LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER PUBLICLY OUT AS A GAY MAN
• KANSAS STATE OL BE SEND OPENLY GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER ON FBS LEVEL
• STT FRANTZ CHERISH ACCEPTANCE AFTER RMG TEAMMAT HE'S GAY
• THIS K-STATE LEMAN COULD BE THE FIRST OUT GAY PLAYER TO MAKE AN NFL ROSTER
• OPENLY GAY FORMER K-STATE FOOTBALL STAR HAD HOPED TO MAKE NFL HISTORY THIS YEAR, BUT THE CORONAVIS GOT IN THE WAY
• BIG XII FOOTBALL TEAM WH OPENLY GAY PLAYER WS BY 36 POTS. SO MUCH FOR DISTRACTNS.
• K-STATE FOOTBALL PLAYER STT FRANTZ REVEALS HE IS GAY, SAYS HE IS 'SO ACCEPTED' BY TEAM

OPENLY GAY EX-LLEGE PLAYER GETS EMOTNAL ABOUT CARL NASSIB'S ANNOUNCEMENT: 'RPECT'

Stt Frantz hoped this moment would first openly gay Power 5 llege football player to pete, he hoped that the NFL barrier would break, even though he ultimately didn’t break after Frantz failed to land on an NFL roster when he clared for the 2020 draft, he worried: Would five years elapse before an NFL player openly me out as gay? 5 reer sacks sce 2016, announced he is gay via an Instagram post and vio. He uld save livMORE:Who is Carl Nassib, the NFL's first openly gay active player?

”Frantz first told his Kansas State teammat he was gay 2016, durg his redshirt hman season. ” Even so, he felt like he let the gay muny down when his historic llegiate n didn’t advance to the pro level. “I wanted to be that person gay kids uld look up to.

“There’s such a stereotype around gay men pecially, that gay men don’t play football and gay men aren’t those type of guys. … Carl’s showg: No, you n be a gay man and play a mascule sport and sign a $25 ln ntract to play football.

KANSAS STATE FOOTBALL PLAYER STT FRANTZ REVEALS HE IS GAY, SAYS HE IS 'SO ACCEPTED' BY TEAM

“You n be a gay guy and play football and get 20-pl sacks the NFL. ”Hopefully soon, Frantz and Nassib and many around the NFL, cludg missner Roger Gooll, say an openly gay football player will not be newsworthy. ”Frantz adopted the same approach after he me out as openly gay.

“It’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m gay. Kansas State sophomore offensive tackle Stt Frantz publicly me out as gay an terview wh ESPN, jog g Arizona hman My-Kg Johnson as the only active openly gay Bowl Subdivisn players for the 2017 llege, who started 13 gam for the Wildts last season, said the first time he ever me out to anyone was wh all of his teammat durg an offseason team-buildg exercise 2015 — after Frantz’s redshirt season. He said his biggt fear high school was that beg gay would tract recers for a major llege said Frantz’s sexual orientatn wouldn’t have swayed his cisn one directn or the other, and he wasn’t surprised wh how the team embraced him.

KANSAS STATE FOOTBALL PLAYER COM OUT AS GAY

Arizona State offensive leman Chip Saraf beme the first openly gay major Divisn I football player 2014, acrdg to Nutt fil lawsu, sayg Ole Miss engaged a smear mpaign agast himMore:The Procs rolls on for Alabama and Nick Saban: 'I don't want to waste a failure'. 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.

KANSAS STATE LEMAN STT FRANTZ TOLD TEAMMAT HE IS GAY BEFORE HE TOLD HIS FAY

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

TOP LLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER PUBLICLY OUT AS A GAY MAN

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.

I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. 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.

KANSAS STATE OL BE SEND OPENLY GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER ON FBS LEVEL

There hasn't been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU. Stt Frantz has known he is gay sce the fifth gra and has been fully acceptg of his own sexualy sce his junr year high school.

But he still didn’t feel fortable revealg his homosexualy to his changed after he redshirted 2015. ”Acrdg to ESPN, Frantz will be one of only two openly gay players at llege football’s top level 2017.

STT FRANTZ CHERISH ACCEPTANCE AFTER RMG TEAMMAT HE'S GAY

In Febary, g Arizona hman My-Kg Johnson revealed his homosexualy to the Arizona Daily Star, sayg he ma that fact known to the Wildts’ ach durg his had a standout 2016 as a redshirt hman, startg all 13 gam for Kansas State and helpg hold Texas A&M fensive end Myl Garrett, the eventual No. But he still didn't feel fortable revealg his homosexualy to his changed after he redshirted 2015.

"Acrdg to ESPN, Frantz will be one of only two openly gay players at llege football's top level 2017. In Febary, g Arizona hman My-Kg Johnson revealed his homosexualy to the Arizona Daily Star, sayg he ma that fact known to the Wildts' ach durg his had a standout 2016 as a redshirt hman, startg all 13 gam for Kansas State and helpg hold Texas A&M fensive end Myl Garrett, the eventual No.

THIS K-STATE LEMAN COULD BE THE FIRST OUT GAY PLAYER TO MAKE AN NFL ROSTER

The startg left tackle for the Kansas State football team me out as gay Thursday durg an terview on ESPN. Sophomore Stt Frantz says he revealed his sexual orientatn to his teammat last year after listeng to a motivatnal speaker brought by Head Coach Bill Snyr.

OPENLY GAY FORMER K-STATE FOOTBALL STAR HAD HOPED TO MAKE NFL HISTORY THIS YEAR, BUT THE CORONAVIS GOT IN THE WAY

Kansas State sophomore offensive leman Stt Frantz. Frantz is the send major llege player to e out as gay.

In an terview wh ESPN, Frantz shared the story of how he cid to e out and rm those around him he was gay.

It took a while for Frantz to e out to those close to him, as he said he me to grips wh the fact he was gay durg his junr year of high school even though he first knew he was gay fifth gra.

BIG XII FOOTBALL TEAM WH OPENLY GAY PLAYER WS BY 36 POTS. SO MUCH FOR DISTRACTNS.

Siar to the Michael Sam story is that Kansas State’s football program managed to rpect and keep secure the privacy of Frantz, who started 13 gam for the Wildts wh his teammat knowg he was gay and nobody breakg the silence for him durg the urse of a football season.

Michael Sam me out to the public after his playg days at Missouri were over jt ahead of the NFL Draft, but the entire Missouri football program knew Sam was gay for a full year. Frantz will be one of the first two openly gay players to play FBS football this season.

Kansas State offensive tackle Stt Frantz (#74) will be the first openly gay player at the FBS level.

K-STATE FOOTBALL PLAYER STT FRANTZ REVEALS HE IS GAY, SAYS HE IS 'SO ACCEPTED' BY TEAM

Stt Frantz, an offensive tackle for the Kansas State Wildts, me out as a gay man durg an terview wh ESPN’s Holly Rowe this week, jog a small but growg group of athlet to publicly discs their sexual orientatn. He told them he was gay followg the 2015 season, when Head Coach Bill Snyr ved a motivatnal speaker to addrs the team and, as part of an exercise, players were enuraged to reveal somethg about themselv they had never shared before.