‘NFL 360’ profil five LGBTQ people wh a sports background, cludg three openly gay football players, on the impact of Nassib g out.
Contents:
- THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
- NEW YORK GAY FOOTBALL LEAGUE
- 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRairs’ Carl Nassib Announc He’s Gay, an N.F.L. 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.ViotranscripttranscriptCarl Nassib Be First Openly Gay Active N.F.L. I jt want to take a quick moment to say that I’m 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.
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.“Sadly, I have agonized over this moment for the last 15 years,” he wrote the same post.Nassib, a five-year N.F.L. Players Associatn also said a Twter post that he and the unn supported Nassib.Nassib’s announcement, ma durg Pri Month, is a signifint turng pot for the N.F.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.G.B.T.Q.
NEW YORK GAY FOOTBALL LEAGUE
In 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the first football player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, only seventeen players have done the same. * gay football team *
Athlet who me before him.”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.F.L. The Dallas Cowboys signed Sam to their practice squad, but he never played a regular season game.ImageCred...LM 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.B.A. 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 Nets.But Sam left the N.F.L.
8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
Players had prevly announced publicly that they were gay, but all after their playg reers were over.
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 event.Roy 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 said he cultivated a reputatn for beg the life of the party, and had to partmentalize his football life and his personal life.Simmons also said he never would have clared himself gay durg the four seasons he played for the N.F.L.