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• CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY
• THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN
• WHO IS CARL NASSIB? MEET THE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY, PLEDG $100,000 TO TREVOR PROJECT
• THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
• PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
• MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, RETIR FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS
• CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY

CARL NASSIB, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER NFL GAME, MAK HISTORY AND STARS THRILLG LAS VEGAS RAIRS W

Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib ma history durg the team's opener agast the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night, beg the first openly gay NFL player to su up a regular season game. Nassib, who has played the NFL sce 2016, me out as gay earlier this year.

He's the first active, openly gay player to be on an NFL roster, but other players have paved the way. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted by the NFL 2014, but was cut by the St. The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly.

16 and the first one to e out as gay while on an active roster. Over the years, Outsports has known of a few other players who are gay but have never e out, even when retired.

MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY

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Jenks is gay and this was the the first time he wily discsed his sexual orientatn. In June, Carl Nassib of the Rairs me out as gay. Stewart, who is not gay, said he felt attacked by the cy of Ptsburgh for the mor, which he said the Steelers found was started by an dividual lol police officer.

FORMER NFL QUARTERBACK OPENS UP ABOUT RUMORS HE WAS GAY

The announcement today by former Patrts and Chiefs offensive leman Ryan O'Callaghan that he is gay brgs to seven the number of NFL known gay players NFL history who have played a regular season game. In addn, four other players who me out as gay were NFL trag mps, some playg preason gam. Kopay played wh two teammat who were gay: tight end Jerry Smh and nng back Ray McDonald.

Gay players have long been the NFL. Legendary Packers and Redsks ach Vce Lombardi — who had an openly gay brother — knew that some of his players were gay. In the Outsports article on O’Callaghan g out, longtime NFL executive Stt Pli says he has unseled gay NFL players before.

THERE HAVE BEEN 11 KNOWN GAY PLAYERS NFL HISTORY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCarl Nassib, the First Openly Gay N. He om a football fay, was a standout at Penn State and has tght his teammat about personal Miller/Getty ImagPublished June 22, 2021Updated June 25, 2021Las Vegas Rairs fensive leman Carl Nassib walked outsi his home Wt Chter, Pa., looked directly to his phone and did somethg that he said he hoped would one day no longer be a few brief sentenc, the 28-year-old Nassib me out as gay. Conversatns wh iends and fay ma possible, he said, for him to publicly say that he is gay.

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I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. L., his ach and his peers the league for their rpect and acceptance, and acknowledged that many gay people before him did not receive that same support. Player Jason Colls, who beme the first openly gay male athlete 2013.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN

For the first time NFL history, an openly gay player will take the field a regular season game. Never the NFL's history has a player on the field a regular-season game after g out as gay. However, Nassib is not the first gay player to be on the field.

Acrdg to Outsports, there have been 16 gay or bisexual NFL players to e out publicly. He did not play his first two seasons, but appeared double-dig gam as a redshirt sophomore and junr before gettg the startg assignment as a senr. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs’ Carl Nassib Announc He’s Gay, an N.

FirstThe Rairs fensive leman me out a statement posted to his Instagram acunt on Monday, beg the first active player the league to publicly intify as gay. Player to publicly clare that he is gay. “I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” Nassib said a vio posted to his Instagram acunt.

WHO IS CARL NASSIB? MEET THE NFL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER

I actually hope that like one day vios like this and the whole g-out procs are jt not necsary, but until then I’m gog to do my bt and my part to cultivate a culture that’s acceptg, that’s passnate, ” before addg that he would donate $100, 000 to The Trevor Project, a nonprof group that foc on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng youth.

RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST

L., and mak him the first openly gay active player the league’s 101-year history. “Sports are, many ways, one of the last bastns of a place where homophobia n thrive, ” said Cathy Renna, a spokwoman for the Natnal L. ”Michael Sam, an all-Amerin fensive leman at Missouri, had been viewed as the most likely to acquire that distctn when he announced he is gay before he beg chosen by the Rams the seventh round of the 2014 N.

The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season Otero/Associated PrsSam’s draft stat was seen as a barometer of whether the climate of men’s pro sports was beg more acceptg of gay athlet, particularly bee Febary 2014 the N. Had jt bee the first of the four tradnal major Amerin men’s sports leagu to have an openly gay active player when Jason Colls joed the Sam left the N.

Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over.

CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS ANNOUNC HE IS GAY, PLEDG $100,000 TO TREVOR PROJECT

David Kopay beme the first pro football player to publicly e out as gay 1975, three years after he retired. He played for ne seasons wh the San Francis 49ers and four other teams the 1960s and 1970s, and has sce bee an activist and an ambassador for the Gay Gam, a quadrennial sportg Simmons was the send former player to announce that he was gay, dog so 1992 after his reer wh the Giants and Washgton Football Team had end. Simmons also said he never would have clared himself gay durg the four seasons he played for the N.

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

”In recent years, the league has publicly supported Pri Month through promotnal efforts like changg official social media avatars to clu rabows and supportg the You Can Play Project, which provis rourc to enurage clivy youth sports, even as some players have ma rogatory statements about gay people wh ltle penalty or supported groups that oppose gay Wewerka for The New York TimIn 2013, Chris Culliver of the San Francis 49ers and Chris Clemons of the Seattle Seahawks ma offensive ments when asked about the prospect of havg a gay teammate.

“Got no gay people on the team, ” Culliver said. ”San Francis nng back Garrison Hearst apologized 2002 for g a slur and sayg he wouldn’t want a gay player as a teammate. His ment me after the former Mnota Vikgs player Esera Tuaolo publicly me out as gay that year after he had retired.

Players like Brendon Ayanbajo, who played wh the Baltimore Ravens, fend same-sex marriage and gay rights and supported Sam at the time. Player to Announce He’s Gay.

PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY

Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon says he thks the reason several teammat of his did not e out as gay publicly durg his NFL reer had as much to do wh the age-old "mentaly" of the sport as did wh the era which Moon starred for the Hoton Oilers, and later the Mnota Vikgs, Seattle Seahawks and Kansas Cy durg a 17-year reer.

' If you were ever to say you were gay (when Moon played), that’d be like you were nsired soft. 22, Unger / Getty Imag fileMoon, 64, lled Gooll's support "huge" and said that the league, and the untry, have progrsed a long way, even sce 2014, when openly gay football player Michael Sam was drafted by the St. "Former NFL fensive end Marv Washgton overlapped wh Moon's reer for more than a , and Washgton says he played wh gay teammat at each stop his reer, begng wh the Jets 1989.

MICHAEL SAM, FIRST OPENLY GAY PLAYER, RETIR FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS

"If you played one game NFL, you played wh a gay teammate, " says Washgton, 55, who transned to the nnabis dtry after his football reer and is the founr of Isosport, a CBD sports performance pany.

What was the acceptance of gays like society then?

Stephen Dunn / Getty Imag fileMoon says one of his former teammat, Esera Tuaolo, me out after retirg, but that when they were together on the Vikgs, Moon knew Tuaolo was gay. Whether the NFL at that time was aware that gay players were on team rosters, Moon says he don't know.

CARL NASSIB OF LAS VEGAS RAIRS IS FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO ANNOUNCE HE IS GAY

Gay people have been discrimated agast for a long time, and I’ve had my discrimatn issu, too. "But even Sam Rapoport, the NFL's senr director of diversy, equy and cln, and who is gay, says that spe the overwhelmgly posive rponse to Nassib's announcement, there is still much progrs to be ma wh the LGBTQ+ muny, both sports and society. "Gay marriage was still not legal.

I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. He me to natnal attentn as a star of the Browns' "Hard Knocks" appearance 2018, givg fancial advice to teammat and offerg his take on the existence of Missouri lebacker Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted NFL history 2014, when the Rams took him 249th overall. Some people still believe that the NFL is a “homophobic” monolh where ’s “dangero” to be gay.

Dpe Outsports chroniclg lerally dozens of piec of evince to the ntrary, there’s a ntued belief amongst some that NFL players would overwhelmgly reject a gay player if he me out.