The 39 current NFL players have all played wh a gay teammate - Outsports

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO
• NFL ACH OUT AS GAY HISTORIC MOMENT AMERIN SPORTS
• THE 39 CURRENT NFL PLAYERS HAVE ALL PLAYED WH AN OUT GAY TEAMMATE
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
• NFL SHAR NEW VIO THAT SAYS ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’
• NFL SAYS 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW MERCIAL THAT MAK CLEAR S SUPPORT OF LGBTQ+ MUNY
• 7 GAY NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS
• GAY OR BISEXUAL PLAYERS ON EVERY PRO FOOTBALL TEAM, SAYS FORMER U.S. FOOTBALLER
• OPN: NFL'S CLARATN THAT 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' SIGNALS LEAGUE'S ONGOG EVOLUTN
• 'I'M MICHAEL SAM, I'M AN AMERIN FOOTBALL PLAYER … AND I'M GAY'
• RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
• 30% OF AMERIN FOOTBALL PLAYERS GAY? NOT QUE.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league,” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Jacksonville Jaguars' Kev Maxen has ma the public statement "to be vol support of people livg how they want to live, but I also want to jt live and not feel fear about how people will react"; Maxen is the first male ach a major Amerin sports league to e out as gay.

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major Amerin sports league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St Louis Rams selected him 2021, Carl Nassib, then wh the Las Vegas Rairs, beme the first active NFL player to e out publicly. It was maybe a transn - for people who were aaid to say they were gay.

NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

"In the 101-year history of Amerin football's NFL, no openly gay or bisexual athlete has ever featured a regular-season game. ' I know now that you don't turn gay, " he 6ft 5 footballer said any uncertaty he had about his own sexualy was put on hold when he was drafted by the Cowboys add: "The NFL lls and I get that ll om the Cowboys, and I thought: 'Well, if I was turng gay, I need to stop now. '"Wh no openly gay players the league, Rsell said he wasn't ready at the time to be the first bee of the uncertaty of what uld transpire.

NFL ACH OUT AS GAY HISTORIC MOMENT AMERIN SPORTS

Some people wh that muny believe beg bisexual is jt a route to beg gay or lbian. "'There's so much misogyny, which I believe is the root of homophobia' Ryan Rsell spoke at the annual Human Rights Campaign Natnal Dner 2019Rsell believ tacklg homophobia is a battle that n be won. Rsell said he if don't bee the first openly gay or bisexual player to feature the NFL, the first to do so uld be someone who is already out when drafted to the league.

Michael Sam, who me out as gay while llege 2014 before he was drafted by the St Louis Rams, was close to beg the Sam only featured pre-season or practice squad gam for both the Rams and Dallas Cowboys. There's so much misogyny, which I believe is the root of homophobia. Carl Nassib on Monday beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay.

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

Carl Nassib has ma history as the first active NFL player to announce that he is gay. Sam beme a trailblazer as the first openly gay athlete to be drafted by the NFL 2014. "I jt feel like bee I me out, I was the first one to do , I uld be a bean for other athlet who may be gay or may be not.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

Michael Sam was the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team. He found a temporary home shortly thereafter when he signed a two-year ntract wh the Montreal Alouett 2015 and beme the first openly gay football player to play the Canadian Football League.

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

David Kopay me out as gay years after retirg om football. The board of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn had only voted to stop classifyg homosexualy as a mental illns 1973. But he was, by all acunts, a pneer, wh Outsports scribg him 2019 as "the most signifint gay athlete morn history.

" Durg an terview wh NPR 2005, Kopay spoke on the difficulti of beg a gay man the world of football. "Beg gay dividual sports is one thg, but beg gay team sports is a whole 'nother, bee... "That's why a lot of people say, `Well, gay people wouldn't f , ' bee their inty is so different.

NFL SHAR NEW VIO THAT SAYS ‘FOOTBALL IS GAY’

'" Other gay football players have siarly spoken out, remarkg on the stggl of beg closeted such a hyper-mascule world. "No one is gog to assume the big football player is gay, " he told the magaze.

The assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars has bee the first male ach ever the NFL -- or Amerin men's pro sports altogether -- to publicly e out as gay.

'Stranger Thgs' Star Noah Schnapp Com Out as Gay on TikTok. Madonna Appears to Come Out as Gay New Vio. Jerrod Carmichael Com Out as Gay New Stand-Up Special.

NFL SAYS 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW MERCIAL THAT MAK CLEAR S SUPPORT OF LGBTQ+ MUNY

Colton Unrwood Addrs Backlash After Comg Out as Gay. In a vio shared on Twter on Monday, the Natnal Football League clared, "Football is gay. "In whe letters on a black background, the word "gay" was then replaced wh words cludg "lbian, " "betiful, " "queer, " "transgenr, " "power" and "life.

Nassib is the first active NFL player to e out as gay. Kev Maxen, a strength ach for the NFL anchise the Jacksonville Jaguars, has publicly e out as gay a landmark moment Amerin men's profsnal sportsJacksonville Jaguars strength ach Kev Maxen (R) has publicly e out as gayJacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen has ma history by beg the first active NFL ach to publicly e out as gay.

Last June, Carl Nassib ma history by beg the first active NFL player to e out as gay a brave statement. Some people still believe that the NFL is a “homophobic” monolh where ’s “dangero” to be gay.

7 GAY NFL FOOTBALL PLAYERS

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. So we set out to figure out how many current NFL players have already played on the same team wh an out gay teammate.

We found 39 current NFL players, who were on a roster for the 2020 season, who have already had an out gay teammate.

GAY OR BISEXUAL PLAYERS ON EVERY PRO FOOTBALL TEAM, SAYS FORMER U.S. FOOTBALLER

In addn, dozens of other players have played agast an opponent they knew to be gay. The 39 current NFL players have played wh at least five gay or bisexual men who were out to their team while they were on the same team. The Arizona Cardals have the most players we know have played wh an out gay teammate.

At least six of the players on the Cardals’ 2020 roster — about 10% of the team, — has already had a gay teammate they knew of.

OPN: NFL'S CLARATN THAT 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' SIGNALS LEAGUE'S ONGOG EVOLUTN

And they have llectively played llege wh all five out gay players. Wh that experience, solid veteran learship, a ach Kliff Kgsbury who has ld gay football player Stt Frantz, and a ont office that has monstrated an embrace of LGBTQ people, is easy to make the se that an out gay player wh the Cardals would be weled.

Of urse many other NFL players have played wh a gay or bi teammate before they me out (e. The are the current NFL players to have played wh an out gay or bi man on their team (wh that team and their current team listed):. If you thk I’ve missed a current NFL player who’s played wh an out gay or bi teammate, be sure to leave the rmatn the ments below.

The subject was the impact of Carl Nassib g out as gay the NFL for the Las Vegas Rairs.

'I'M MICHAEL SAM, I'M AN AMERIN FOOTBALL PLAYER … AND I'M GAY'

Matea offensive leman Jake Strer, who is gay, is one of five current or former LGBTQ athlet profiled.

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

“When I returned to football my sophomore year after g out was bee I knew that if I qu football was jt the begng of thgs I would qu or hold myself back om bee I was gay, ” Strer told Outsports. “To fast forward to my last football game my senr year and have end wh ‘NFL 360’ there to clu me a story celebratg the first openly gay football player NFL history is still really unbelievable to me. EST, we see scen of Strer’s last game as a Matea Mtang, terspersed wh him speakg about beg gay football and what Nassib’s g out meant to him.

Their experienc are universal, ways good and bad, for many LGBTQ people — Pick talkg about the pa om the ial rejectn by her mom; O’Callaghan discsg suicidal thoughts before beg rcued by a therapist; Rapoport’s touchg rellectn of g out to NFL Commissner Roger Gooll by approachg him at a Super Bowl event holdg her girliend’s hand and Gooll’s se upon seeg ; Saffold discsg growg up Black and gay on the South Si of Chigo “where there are rampant levels of homophobia” and Strer on how he ed to worry “about how bad my life might be after I me out.

“I thk 11- or 12-year-old kids playg football prr to Carl Nassib g out didn’t thk there uld be a gay football player, ” Rapoport said. The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly.

30% OF AMERIN FOOTBALL PLAYERS GAY? NOT QUE.

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.