"In llege, football was a great ver for beg gay,” the former Patrts and Chiefs offensive leman said. “And then I saw the NFL maly as a way to keep hidg my sexualy and stay alive."
Contents:
- DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI
- WAS AARON HERNANZ GAY? DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR FOOTBALL PLAYER'S RUMORED SEXUAL PAST
- EX-NFL PLAYER RYAN O’CALLAGHAN NEARLY KILLED HIMSELF STEAD OF G OUT AS GAY
DEATH OF GAY FOOTBALL STAR JT FASHANU MAY HAVE BEEN SUICI
It mt have been difficult to try to add a discsn of his sexualy, while beg reful not to somehow blame his actns on reprsed homosexualy.
And he’s an outspoken, gay-rights activist, jt om beg on the Patrts and not beg able to really say anythg. Fashanu, a former Dr Barnardo's boy who was fostered at the age of five wh his olr brother John, went on to bee the first £1 ln black footballer Bra when he was signed by Nottgham Fort 1981 aged a famoly difficult relatnship wh the club's then manager, Brian Clough, and Fashanu's renowned temper soon found him out of favour wh the club and he slipped quickly and spectacular fashn om the First Divisn of English football to the backwaters of the Third his own words, Fashanu's failure to achieve the succs his talent served was due, part, to his admissn that he was gay.
I was very upset when Jt turned gay. "He had already admted he was gay.
WAS AARON HERNANZ GAY? DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR FOOTBALL PLAYER'S RUMORED SEXUAL PAST
Aaron Hernanz's attorney Jose Baez has slammed Netflix's new documentary on the late NFL player, statg that the football tight end killed himself bee he was sufferg om Chronic Trmatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and not over fears of beg outed as a homosexual as suggted by the streamg giant's latt offerg.
EX-NFL PLAYER RYAN O’CALLAGHAN NEARLY KILLED HIMSELF STEAD OF G OUT AS GAY
Baez, who reprented Hernanz and helped him beat a double murr se, a statement to TMZ said that the recently-released Netflix documentary tled 'Killer Insi: The Md of Aaron Hernanz' impli that the player was a closeted homosexual, and might have taken his life fear of the alleged secret gettg out.
Baez refuted Netflix's theory of Hernanz's possible homosexualy playg a part his suici, and said that the young player's ath was triggered by advanced CTE.
The Netflix documentary, which dropped on January 15, emphasiz Hernanz's possible homosexualy and how the player was tormented about keepg unr wraps a machismo-driven reer. Chief among them were a troubled home life, the unexpected ath of his domeerg father and, acrdg to some who knew him, prsure to nceal that he was allegedly gay. Dennis Sansoucie, who shar that he eventually me out to his father after Hernanz’s ath, says the macho atmosphere associated wh football allowed him and Hernanz to nceal that they were homosexual.