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Contents:

• DENVER BRONS PLAYER BRGS UP SHOWERS WHEN DISCSG ACCEPTANCE OF GAY NFL PLAYERS
• FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS, GAY BOWL ATTRACTS NFL SPONSORS AND TOUCH LIV
• WILLIEGAY
• THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
• WILLIAM GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• CARL NASSIB OUT AS 1ST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

DENVER BRONS PLAYER BRGS UP SHOWERS WHEN DISCSG ACCEPTANCE OF GAY NFL PLAYERS

It don’t intify self as an explicly gay bar, but ’s a popular hangout for olr gay men occupyg the former Barker Lounge space. Its owners have claimed ’s the cy’s olst gay bar, havg opened the 1950s and gone openly gay the 1970s, acrdg to Wtword, wh s stantly regnizable, rabow-pated door.

Although ’s not an overtly bear bar — owners scribe as Denver’s queer, unrground fetish bar — ’s a favore of the beard, equently mcle-bound class of gay men who scrib themselv as such (particularly the absence of the late Denver Wrangler). Tra also helps fill a blank spot that particular area’s Denver’s gay scene, wh a perch along Santa Fe Drive and diverse programmg that rang om drag shows and DJ nights to leather nights and beer bts.

FROM HUMBLE BEGNGS, GAY BOWL ATTRACTS NFL SPONSORS AND TOUCH LIV

The name stretch back to the 1970s when the slim brick buildg hosted a gay club lled Triangle, and was a tryout spot for var, unsuccsful bars and craft rtrants after the origal Triangle closed the early 2000s. Like Lucid, #Vybe featur a b more diversy than many gay bars, wh drag queens of lor and top tourg queens like Adore Delano swgg through regularly, addn to stand-up edy, game nights, Denver Brons parti (the cheerlears even stopped for a show recently) and lots more. Matt Gay (Indianapolis Colts) - 80 Overall.

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“I me out when I was 24 or 25, ” Bryant tells CNN Sport of his cisn to live openly as a gay athlete about a year after endg his NFL pursu.

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

Now Bryant is back the sport as his te self, featured as the go-to receiver for the 2017 champn New York Warrrs at Gay Bowl, the annual tournament of the Natnal Gay Flag Football League.

“The petn has progrsively gotten better, ” says Davis, 41, a figurehead the league who tak the Warrrs’ qut to repeat as Gay Bowl tleholrs serly. Over the past 18 years Gay Bowl has grown om a three-team tournament played the dirt field of a Hollywood high school to a three-day event held rotatg ci boastg 35 sponsors, cludg Uned Airl, Fily Invtments, Sheraton Hotels and UPS.

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Honolulu, fact, recently beat out bids om At and Toronto for the 2020 gam, while New York will host s send Gay Bowl next year. The New England Patrts were sponsors of last year’s Gay Bowl Boston, wh owner Robert Kraft speakg at the closg ceremony.

For most of the 1, 000 or so participants of Gay Bowl, the long weekend reprents a rnn of iends and a celebratn of football – the sport they love, which many ways shaped their liv. “The majory of my iends DC are the league, ” says Jam Santos of the Washgton Generals, a former Air Force enlistee who would go on to w this tournament playg receiver his fifth Gay Bowl.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

What would do wonrs for the perceptn of gay male athlet, Santos says, is to be reprented by a proment pro. He pots to Arizona State Universy signg openly gay high school football player My-Kg Johnson as a step forward. It appears that football’s locker room culture – which nearly drove former Patrts offensive leman Ryan O’Callaghan to suici before g out – mt evolve for a gay superstar to emerge.

Both prefer to play New York’s gay flag football league, rather than the ragtag gam they were a part of the cy. “A lot of the leagu we’ve played have been ad hoc, you’ve seen fistfights, ” he adds, notg that the gay leagu “people get a ltle chippy om time to time wh petivens. Roberts says jog the New York Gay Football League – which wel “straight alli” on s webse – was by way of an unrstandg wh Davis.

“If you’re a gay participant and you ve a straight player, you probably tst them to be open enough. It’s the openg morng of Gay Bowl XVIII and players on the vast green field on the outskirts of Denver are slow to get to a rhythm. Playg his fourth Gay Bowl, the former Ivy Leaguer Allison is one of several straight quarterbacks the league, bee – jt like the NFL – good flag football quarterbacks are hard to fd.

CARL NASSIB OUT AS 1ST OPENLY GAY ACTIVE NFL PLAYER

“We didn’t want a suatn where a ‘gay team’ would have 75 percent straight players, and they were the bt straight players high school or llege, and they would be rgers. “At the end of the day, you have a lot of gay men who say ‘I don’t re if he’s straight or not, I’m still gog to whoop his ass on the football field.