XFL center judge Amanda Ser-Cook is the first openly gay official a major natnal profsnal football league.
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- BILL KENNEDY OUT AS SEND ACTIVE OPENLY GAY NBA OFFICIAL
- THIS GAY REFEREE JT WORKED AN AMERIN HOCKEY LEAGUE GAME, A FIRST FOR THE LEAGUE
- LANCY'S ARTWORK LIGHTSABER RABOW - GAY PRI STICKER - WATERPROOF VYL DEL FOR LAPTOP PHONE SKATEBOARD TRAVEL CASE GUAR BICYCLE
- YOUNG SOCCER REFEREE HAS THRIVED ALL THE WHILE BEG OPENLY GAY
BILL KENNEDY OUT AS SEND ACTIVE OPENLY GAY NBA OFFICIAL
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But Ser-Cook is breakg new ground as the first openly gay official to work a major natnal profsnal football league, last year the short-lived Alliance of Amerin Football and this year the XFL. The head of officials for the Atlanta chapter of the Natnal Gay Flag Football League was there, heard me, and suggted I e help out on the weekends. “Sce I me out at 20, [beg gay] on the field has never been an issue, and has never been a terrent, ” he said.
[avatar er=”lewisj163″ size=”thumbnail” align=”left” /]Football Zebras wrer Josh Lewis has officiated adult flag-football leagu, cludg the Natnal Flag Football League of Atlanta, the Chigo Metropolan Sports Associatn, the New York Gay Football League, and the Natnal Gay Flag Football League. Longtime NBA referee Bill Kennedy revealed to Yahoo Sports Sunday night that he is gay, makg him the send openly gay active NBA official after Vlet Palmer's announcement 2014.
He's also the third active openly gay official pro sports along wh MLB umpire Dale Stt. "I am proud to be an NBA referee and I am proud to be a gay man, " Kennedy told Yahoo Sports on Sunday night.
THIS GAY REFEREE JT WORKED AN AMERIN HOCKEY LEAGUE GAME, A FIRST FOR THE LEAGUE
Source: NBA referee Bill Kennedy reveals he is gay; Rajon Rondo ma alleged homosexual slur to him - Yahoo Sports.
LANCY'S ARTWORK LIGHTSABER RABOW - GAY PRI STICKER - WATERPROOF VYL DEL FOR LAPTOP PHONE SKATEBOARD TRAVEL CASE GUAR BICYCLE
OutSports spoke wh an openly gay high school ach for his reactn, which summed up the announcement well:. "I thk any time someone n be out at the top of their profsn 's a w, " out gay high school basketball ach Anthony Nimo told Outsports.
Source: NBA referee Bill Kennedy out as gay after Rajon Rondo lled him gay slurs - Outsports.
Yahoo Sports reveals that Rondo's one-game spensn was the rult of a tira that clud the Kgs guard's e of homophobic slurs towards Kennedy. Adam Silver said 2014 that he felt the league "fell behd" on the issue, even wh Jason Colls' announcement several years ago that he was an active gay NBA player.
YOUNG SOCCER REFEREE HAS THRIVED ALL THE WHILE BEG OPENLY GAY
Dre Barone has been out as a gay man the world of hockey officiatg sce at least 2015. Barone is believed to be the first publicly out gay man to officiate an AHL game.
Other North Amerin gay male sports officials to fd succs have clud hockey’s Alex Valvo the NCAA, Steve Strimlg Pac-12 football and the NBA’s Bill Kennedy. Men’s profsnal hockey ntu to be unr-reprented the LGBTQ muny, wh former player Brock McGillis and current player Le Prokop beg the rare gay male athlet to e out and around the sport. Football referee Jam Adck speaks to the BBC's LGBT Sport Podst"I'm very appreciative of the fact that I'm an openly gay man football.
"Adck has worked as a fourth official the Premier League'People know I'm gay and jt accept - I'm fortunate for that'As a child of the '80s and '90s, Adck was ed to hearg the same tired stereotyp - that people who loved sport uldn't be gay as, who is om Long Eaton Derbyshire, didn't e out until he was 27 - but his experienc wh the game have been nothg but posive. And, to be hont, there's been tert om lleagu sayg, 'I'm proud of you Jam, that you're able to be openly gay sport, ' bee they know the barriers that are still place. "They're fully supportive and don't change the way they are around me or the way they speak to me bee they thought I was a heterosexual guy, and now they fd out I'm a gay guy.