Jeff Rohrer — Retired Dallas Cowboys Lebacker — Com Out as Gay, Reveals He's Gettg Married

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• GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED
• FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS FIRST MARRIED OUT GAY EX-NFL PLAYER
• EX-COWBOYS SUPPORT GAY TEAMMATE JEFF ROHRER BEFORE HIS WEDDG: HAPPY 'HE N BE WHO HE IS'
• THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE
• NORTHEAST TEXAS GAY WEDDGS - FORT WORTH LBIAN WEDDGS - DALLAS SAME-SEX WEDDGS
• CONFSNS OF COWBOYS THE TEXAS GAY ROO
• FORMER COWBOYS LEBACKER OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC WEDDG
• WATCH: EX-DALLAS COWBOY KEN HUTCHERSON PAR GAY MARRIAGE TO MAN-HORSE MARRIAGE
• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED
• THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS

GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY

”The kdns of my iends and my fay and my teammat” he said, his voice tremblg, psg between words, dog everythg he uld to exprs the sudn joy that enveloped his new gay life. He had never, while he was playg the NFL for the Cowboys or at any pot durg his marriage to his wife, dated men, had a boyiend or had any kd of gay experience. Jeff Rohrer is a man on a missn to open hearts and mds to gay people.

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“My experience is that people are born gay, and anyone who wants to dispute that I’d be happy to have a nversatn wh them, cludg Mike Pence. At least at this pot our society, toughns is not associated wh the gay muny.

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

Dpe the perceptn, Rohrer isn’t sure he ever heard a gay slur the Cowboys locker room.

FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS FIRST MARRIED OUT GAY EX-NFL PLAYER

Nothg was anti-gay. In that nversatn The Playmaker said he believed that if a teammate had e out as gay to the rt of the Cowboys the 1990s, they would have accepted him and moved on. Whether or not there were gay slurs thrown around the locker room, there is a machismo virtually every football locker room that seems to send an unspoken msage exudg heterosexism.

In the 1970s we know that multiple Washgton football players – Dave Kopay, Jerry Smh, Ray McDonald – were gay, and that some of their teammat knew about them.

Var Hoton Oilers om the early 1990s have spoken publicly about knowg or assumg that at least two of their teammat were gay. Gay acceptance is prent football.

EX-COWBOYS SUPPORT GAY TEAMMATE JEFF ROHRER BEFORE HIS WEDDG: HAPPY 'HE N BE WHO HE IS'

At a time when acceptance of gay people is at an all-time high, there are still rners of our culture where homophobia ns rampant. Beyond fdg a happs he never thought possible for himself, he now has the opportuny to break to the dark rners of that culture where anti-gay sentiment fters. If was hard to not like him when he was straight and married to a woman, for those very same people will now be hard to not like him now that he’s gay and marryg a man.

THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE

Until jt this year he uldn’t get his head around the ia that this extend fay would ever accept him as a gay man.

The chance to e out publicly as gay. Last year they attend the weddg of a gay uple — Josh’s iends New York.

NORTHEAST TEXAS GAY WEDDGS - FORT WORTH LBIAN WEDDGS - DALLAS SAME-SEX WEDDGS

It’s a lson var gay former profsnal athlet have learned.

The weddg has ma easier to tell the people around him that he’s gay. Retired NFL lebacker Jeff Rohrer is gay and set to bee the first former or current NFL player a same-sex marriage, he revealed a new terview published on Wednday.

CONFSNS OF COWBOYS THE TEXAS GAY ROO

Said Rohrer, “If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately. He told the Tim, “People are born gay, as I was, though beg gay was jt somethg that had no place durg the urse of my football life. Jeff Rohrer, the former Dallas Cowboys lebacker who me out publicly as gay last week, married his boyiend, sk-re expert Joshua Ross, a ceremony Hollywood on Sunday.

As far as we know, Rohrer is the first publicly out gay former NFL player to be married to another man. “… If you had said, ‘Ed, get me a list of five people the history of the game (you thk are gay), ’ he wouldn’t have been nowhere near .

FORMER COWBOYS LEBACKER OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC WEDDG

When told how some of his former teammat reacted, Rohrer chuckled and said ’s unrstandable they were surprised to learn he is gay.

WATCH: EX-DALLAS COWBOY KEN HUTCHERSON PAR GAY MARRIAGE TO MAN-HORSE MARRIAGE

“My first thought was, ‘Oh, wow, I’ve never known a gay lebacker. ’’Rohrer, who started for the Cowboys 1985, 1986 and 1987, said he told only a few former teammat that he is gay and gettg married bee he wanted to keep low-profile.

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

To be sure, the Bucs have their own history wh the LGBTQ muny, namely a really gay former logo, a tight end Rob Gronkowski who’s profsed his love for the gays, and the last team RK Rsell played for a regular-season game before g out.

Yet the Cowboys have a ep, rich history wh gay athlet and the LGBTQ muny that we want to highlight head to the NFL season kickoff. The Cowboys have had at least 3 gay or bi players.

THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS

Durg his time wh the team, owner Jerry Jon said him beg gay is “a ad issue.

Troy Aikman mors, and his own thoughts on choosg to be gay. It’s no secret that gay mors have swirled for years around quarterback-turned-TV-mentator Troy Aikman. Aikman threw fuel on the fire 2015 when he sentially said that he’s chosen to not date men, claimg that beg gay is “a liftyle people choose.