Carl Nassib: NFL supports first openly gay active player. Will more athlet e out?

Contents:

• COL KAEPERNICK MIGHT BE GAY, DATG A 'GAY CIRCU DJ' (BUT PROBABLY NOT)
• COL KAEPERNICK: TEAMMAT DON'T RE IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY
• KAEPERNICK SAYS TEAMMAT WON'T CARE IF PLAYER IS GAY
• WOULD KAEPERNICK HAVE AN NFL JOB IF HE WAS GAY STEAD OF PROTTG NATNAL ANTHEM?

COL KAEPERNICK MIGHT BE GAY, DATG A 'GAY CIRCU DJ' (BUT PROBABLY NOT)

And the most unrstated way possible he says: “I jt want to take a quick moment to say, I’m gay. He’s also gay. And I asked Granrson whether the NFL has changed enough to make room for an openly gay player—and if so—how.

COL KAEPERNICK: TEAMMAT DON'T RE IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR GAY

He me out, but he hasn’t been the first openly gay player to play on Sunday yet. He hasn’t been the first openly gay player to make a bad play that may have st him the game.

You’re makg this pot that this is jt the begng and he’s makg this statement as part of a league that historilly has not been acceptg to gay players. One reporter noted after watchg Nassib’s vio that he’d asked an NFL ach 2013—not that long ago—whether a gay player would ever be weled the league, and the ach said no, bee nobody wants to shower wh a gay person.

KAEPERNICK SAYS TEAMMAT WON'T CARE IF PLAYER IS GAY

And he didn’t e the term gay person. The first NFL player to reveal he was gay was Dave Kopay.

The qutn is: Why are the homophob stoppg gay people om talkg about their sexualy?

WOULD KAEPERNICK HAVE AN NFL JOB IF HE WAS GAY STEAD OF PROTTG NATNAL ANTHEM?

They tried to pretend like wasn’t there, even though Pl Tagliabue, a former missner of the NFL, had an openly gay son. They tried to put pretend that is wasn’t there, even though the current missner, Roger Gooll, has an openly gay brother. He was this All-Amerin om the Universy of Missouri who announced that he was gay 2014 right before the NFL draft.

So while I appreciate the history of him g out before the NFL draft and I appreciate the history of him actually beg drafted as an openly gay player, I’m also a sports journalist, and I know how hard is to play on Sundays. And then you were the first openly gay player, so there’s a whole other layer that you have to manage.

And when you thk about some of the thgs he talked about wh his upbrgg, where he grew up, the attus toward gay people growg up, the fact that he didn’t feel as if he belonged, g out is a mental health journey. Some folks have sgled out the fact that the NFL has the most hierarchil and aristic of stctur and that that might be ntributg to why ’s taken so long to have an active player simply say they’re gay.