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Contents:
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
- TOP 10 UNTENTNALLY GAY MOMENTS
- RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
- DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
Carl Nassib is the first to ever play a down as openly gay, but the rt are still trailblazers. * gay moments in football history *
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TOP 10 UNTENTNALLY GAY MOMENTS
* gay moments in football history *
”Durg a time when most bars refed to serve gay people, the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s first gay rights anizatns, staged a “Sip-In, ” durg which activists entered a New York Cy bar, announced they were gay, orred drks, and waed to be Braerd/The Denver Post via GettyJune 28, 1969: The Stonewall rts spark the begng of the LGBT the early morng hours on June 28, 1969, police performed a raid of the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar — and the ctomers and their supporters took a stand. Those “Stonewall rts” are largely nsired the start of the LGBTQ civil rights movement the Uned Hir/Getty1973: Homosexualy is no longer clared a mental years of studi, analysis, and changg cultural attus, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s board of directors removed homosexualy om the official list of mental illns, known as the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, a move that was upheld wh a vote by the associatn’s membership. ), voluntarily me out as gay, makg him the send openly gay member of ngrs, and the first to e out voluntarily, the untry’s, 2000: Vermont tak a huge step toward same-sex marriage legalizatn.
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RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
It is believed by many that male profsnal footballers are not openly gay or bisexual parison to female players. Read on to fd out more about the homosexual male players football history. * gay moments in football history *
Armed, 2013: SCOTUS strik down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which beme a law 1996, clared that marriag between gay or lbian upl were not regnized by the feral ernment, meang those upl uld not receive legal benefs — like Social Secury and health surance — that straight married upl uld. Senators Jeff Merkley, Tammy Baldw, and Cory Booker, as well as Reprentative David Cicille formerly troduced The Equaly Act, which would make LGBTQ dividuals a protected class and grant them basic legal protectns areas of life cludg tn, hog, employment, cred, and, 2016: The Stonewall Inn will bee a natnal Obama admistratn announced that they are preparg to signate New York’s Stonewall Inn, the se of those historic rts 1969, the first-ever natnal monument dited to gay, 2016: The Obama admistratn publicly supports transgenr the midst of anti-transgenr movements throughout the untry, Print Obama and his admistratn issued a directive to all public schools that transgenr stunts should be allowed to e the rtrooms that reflect their genr inty.
The phrase “gay pri” was also brand-new that year, ed by activists as a shorthand to une the events planned as part of the fledglg movement. Gilbert Baker, who scribed himself as the “gay Betsy Ross, ” created the first pri flag om strips of fabric dyed trash ns the attic of San Francis’s Gay Communy Center before the cy’s 1978 pri para. Acrdg to rearch fdgs, football supporters would like to see homophobia elimated, believe the FA is not dog enough to addrs the issue, and would feel at ease if a member of their team me out as gay.
Homosexual male players football historyHere is a list of the profsnal male footballers who me out public and announced their homosexualy. Uned and Mnota Uned FC Major League Soccer, and for Richmond Kickers and Hartford Athletic the Uned Football me out as gay June 2018, makg him the only out man any of the big five Amerin sports leagu or any top-divisn profsnal men's natnal soccer, 26, shared the news on Twter, notg he had been openly gay to his iends and fay for years, but never on such a large platform. 'Mart's announcement ma him one of only two openly gay players Major League Soccer - the other beg Robbie Rogers, who retired shortly after his announcement but me back to play Tto was the first player to e out as a gay man, makg the announcement shortly after his retirement said his cisn to e out on an ternatnal stage was ma 'much easier' by the 'kdns and acceptance' om his fellow players.
DPE S BT TENTNS, FOOTBALL REMAS UNWELG OF GAY FANS
He released a book named “Comg Out to Play” announced his retirement and sexualy wh a 408-word post on his personal blog, which Rogers wrote, "I'm a soccer player, I'm Christian, and I'm gay. Daily Mail has scribed Anton as the "first high-profile Swedish footballer to announce that he is gay" and as the send active profsnal football player to e out, after English footballer Jt Fashanu 1990. At the Stockholm Pri, he livered a speech nouncg sports homophobia and laid to rt his 2001 airport stated that, "I know that many LGBT people have been the victims of asslts and hate crim.