The 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.
Contents:
- TOP 10 GAY NFL PLAYERS WHO ARE TLY INSPIRATNAL
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
- MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
- 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
- THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
- JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER OUT AS GAY
- IKER CASILLAS SAYS TWTER ACUNT WAS HACKED WHEN POSTED THAT HE WAS GAY
- RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
- TWO PREMIER LEAGUE TEAMMAT COME OUT AS GAY COUPLE
- MATT GAY
TOP 10 GAY NFL PLAYERS WHO ARE TLY INSPIRATNAL
Very few NFL players have e out as gay - Most of the openly gay NFL players did so after they stopped playg. We list 10 gay players here. * football legend gay *
Amazgly though, of the thoands of men who have stepped onto the field, only a small handful have ever e out as gay.
gay NFL players haven’t felt fortable to e out while playg, and stead.
still surroundg gay footballers. Here’s a list of 10 openly gay.
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. * football legend gay *
Dave Kopay was one of the first sports stars to e out as gay. He is now an ambassador for the Feratn of Gay Gam and ns his fay’s bs California. He is an important figure though, as 2014, he was the first openly gay NFL player to be drafted.
By marryg Ross, he beme the first openly gay NFL player to enter a same-sex marriage – somethg that has not been seen aga sce. Kwame Harris knew he was gay om a young age but wasn’t supported by his fay. Sce g out, he has bee a board member at the Gay and Lbian Athletics Foundatn, pl he created an anizatn lled Hate Any Form is Wrong, which mpaigns agast homophobia.
It was only after his ath that his fay nfirmed that he was gay.
MY HIDN JOURNEY: A PROFSNAL SOCCER PLAYER REVEALS HE IS GAY
I'm a brother, son, iend, former pro footballer, entreprenr and annoygly petive lad. I'm a lot of thgs, and one of them is gay. * football legend gay *
After retirg, he moved to Texas, where he opened a gay bar. Dpe this bs venture, he never me out publicly as gay.
McDonald was one of the first ever gay players the NFL. He died 2014, and the year after was ducted to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Sports Hall of Fame.
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.
8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
In 1990, Jt Fashanu beme the first football player to publicly e out as gay. Sce then, only seventeen players have done the same. * football legend gay *
Over the years, Outsports has known of a few other players who are gay but have never e out, even when retired.
The NFL Network produced a documentary on Smh beg gay.
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. Perkz/@rlnassib/@rkrelentls)When Kansas State offensive tackle and NFL hopeful Stt Frantz me out to the natn as gay, he shared that his teammat (to whom he'd e out earlier) had warmly received the news, a sign the most alpha of locker rooms may fally be ready for equaly.
THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
‘NFL 360’ profil five LGBTQ people wh a sports background, cludg three openly gay football players, on the impact of Nassib g out. * football legend gay *
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Roy "Sugar Bear" Simmons, an offensive leman for the New York Giants and Washgton Redsks, beme the send NFL player ever to publicly reveal he was gay.
So Coach Vce Lombardi knew McDonald was gay when he took over learship of the team 1969, but ma clear there would be no discrimatn his locker room, those close to the legend say. Cornerback Wa Davis, who played preason wh the Tennsee Tans, Seattle Seahawks and Washgton Redsks and spent two seasons wh NFL Europe teams Berl Thunr and Barcelona Dragons, me out as gay 2012, nearly a after his retirement. He would later nfirm his sexualy on CNN and s down wh ESPN to discs the challeng of growg up gay Jamai and playg football while closeted.
JAKE DANIELS: BLACKPOOL FOOTBALLER OUT AS GAY
Blackpool's Jake Daniels be the only profsnal footballer to e out as gay, while still playg, for more than 30 years. * football legend gay *
He later cled to sign wh the Tennsee Tans and Dallas Cowboys before g out as gay at 24, he told Philalphia Magaze revealed to the magaze that he'd dated a male cheerlear at Purdue who had threatened to out him then.
He would later move to San Francis and jo the Fog, a gay gby team, and pen a g-out blog post 2015. Wyatt Pertet, a special teams player and receiver for Capal Universy, will be a sophomore this season.
IKER CASILLAS SAYS TWTER ACUNT WAS HACKED WHEN POSTED THAT HE WAS GAY
Football legend Iker Casillas, one of the greatt goalkeepers the history of the sport, says his Twter acunt had been hacked when published a post announcg he was gay. * football legend gay *
The Bachelor star and former football player (who was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted ee agent and was on the practice squad of the Oakland Rairs and the Philalphia Eagl) me out as gay April of 2021, sayg he had fally e to terms wh his sexualy and the "next step all of this was sort of lettg people know. "He wanted everyone to know he was "still the same Colton everybody met on TV" and is "proud to be gay.
The Rairs leman ma NFL history durg Pri Month 2021 when he me out as gay a heartfelt Instagram post, beg the first active NFL player to e out as member of the LGBTQ+ muny.
RAIRS’ CARL NASSIB ANNOUNC HE’S GAY, AN N.F.L. FIRST
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I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay.
The Hampton Universy player ma history October of 2022 when he me out as gay an Instagram Story post, beg the first out gay football player at a Historilly Black College or Universy.
"Speakg to OutSports, he ntued: "Especially at an HBCU, young Black gay men need an outlet. There hasn't been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU. Sce then, there have been so few visible stori of gay men our sport, pecially England.
TWO PREMIER LEAGUE TEAMMAT COME OUT AS GAY COUPLE
Two Premier League teammat have opened up about their ntroversial relatnship stat of beg a gay uple. * football legend gay *
German midfielr Thomas Hzlsperger, the only known gay man to play the Premier League, me out 2014, the year after he gay and havg a reer football never felt like an optn. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is gay, and the thgs are all football, there's still fear a gay teammate might dispt the team environment. Sometim 's bshed away, like homophobia isn't an issue football anymore.
I have heard gay slurs fly around changg rooms and on the pch. I mean, one of the worst thgs you n say to someone a sportg environment is: "You're so gay. The more I uld stay awake, the more I uld put off addrsg how I really a sophomore I was named the program's first-ever first-team All-Amerin.
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MATT GAY
Do not fear the day where a gay athlete is wearg the badge on your shirt. After all, we uld be missg out on the next Lnel Msi, who jt might happen to be gay.