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Contents:
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: TROY AIKMAN SAYS BEG GAY ‘IS NOT MY LIFTYLE’
- THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE
- SKIP BAYLS 'DUMBFOUND' TROY AIKMAN GOT UPSET OVER GAY CLAIM
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
- GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
- TROY AIKMAN STILL UPSET BY GAY RUMOR; NOT HIS CHOSEN 'LIFTYLE'
- TROY AIKMAN MARRIED, WIFE, DIVORCE, GIRLIEND OR GAY, SALARY, NET WORTH
- THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: TROY AIKMAN SAYS BEG GAY ‘IS NOT MY LIFTYLE’
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Today, our most-read story om 2015: Troy Aikman said that beg gay is “a liftyle people choose. Is Troy Aikman gay? The qutn stems om a Skip Bayls book which he surmised that Aikman might be gay.
This is the mantra that so many anti-gay people have ed for generatns now, that we’re all the same and that some people simply choose to have gay relatnships. But the flip si that they don’t thk about is that people - some of them gay people - simply choose not to have a same-sex relatnship. We saw that “choice” play out on TLC’s show “My Hband’s Not Gay” earlier this week.
Whether you ll “homosexual” or “same-sex attractn” or whatever - the guys are gay and straight relatnships. If gay men simply make a “choice” to date men, then gay men - like TLC’s stars, maybe like Aikman - also simply make a “choice” to date women.
THE DALLAS COWBOYS’ LONG GAY & BI HISTORY: 3 OUT ATHLET, SOME GLORY HOLE, A GAY DATG SE & MORE
To be sure, the Bucs have their own history wh the LGBTQ muny, namely a really gay former logo, a tight end Rob Gronkowski who’s profsed his love for the gays, and the last team RK Rsell played for a regular-season game before g out.
Yet the Cowboys have a ep, rich history wh gay athlet and the LGBTQ muny that we want to highlight head to the NFL season kickoff. The Cowboys have had at least 3 gay or bi players.
Durg his time wh the team, owner Jerry Jon said him beg gay is “a ad issue. Troy Aikman mors, and his own thoughts on choosg to be gay. It’s no secret that gay mors have swirled for years around quarterback-turned-TV-mentator Troy Aikman.
SKIP BAYLS 'DUMBFOUND' TROY AIKMAN GOT UPSET OVER GAY CLAIM
Aikman threw fuel on the fire 2015 when he sentially said that he’s chosen to not date men, claimg that beg gay is “a liftyle people choose. Michael Irv leads on acceptance of gay people, same-sex marriage.
Years before the legalizatn of same-sex marriage or Michael Sam g out, “The Playmaker” Michael Irv talked about his love for his gay brother and his acceptance of same-sex marriage eply powerful ways.
Then-Cowboys top receiver Dez Bryant talked about his mother beg gay 2010, sayg that he had stggled wh but had eventually e around to beg “fortable” wh . Why ed to hook up gay wboys wh other gay wboys. When the URL was up for ctn about 15 years ago, some people who wanted to create a gay datg se won the bid.
MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
Two gay Cowboys fans were ESPN hs.
For a uple of years, one of Outsports most-trafficked stori was a post about two gay Cowboys fans beg highlighted by ESPN. Skip Bayls and Troy Aikman haven't seen each other sce the former Dallas lumnist wildly speculated that the ex-Cowboys quarterback was gay. "No one who read that book thought Troy Aikman was gay.
An off-duty Dallas police officer who traveled wh the Cowboys and worked secury at their hotels first told me that ‘the word on the street’ was that Troy Aikman was gay. “While he was workg on the book Skip would ll me all exced and tell me that he got rmatn about Troy beg the back of a r a gay area of Melrose, ” says Dean Blevs, the veteran Dallas rad host. The NFL has played for more than 100 years and there have been 16 gay or bi players to e out publicly.
GAY FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS MARRYG HIS BOYIEND THIS SUNDAY
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. 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.
TROY AIKMAN STILL UPSET BY GAY RUMOR; NOT HIS CHOSEN 'LIFTYLE'
”The kdns of my iends and my fay and my teammat” he said, his voice tremblg, psg between words, dog everythg he uld to exprs the sudn joy that enveloped his new gay life. He had never, while he was playg the NFL for the Cowboys or at any pot durg his marriage to his wife, dated men, had a boyiend or had any kd of gay experience.
Jeff Rohrer is a man on a missn to open hearts and mds to gay people.
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TROY AIKMAN MARRIED, WIFE, DIVORCE, GIRLIEND OR GAY, SALARY, NET WORTH
“My experience is that people are born gay, and anyone who wants to dispute that I’d be happy to have a nversatn wh them, cludg Mike Pence. At least at this pot our society, toughns is not associated wh the gay muny. Dpe the perceptn, Rohrer isn’t sure he ever heard a gay slur the Cowboys locker room.
Nothg was anti-gay. In that nversatn The Playmaker said he believed that if a teammate had e out as gay to the rt of the Cowboys the 1990s, they would have accepted him and moved on. Whether or not there were gay slurs thrown around the locker room, there is a machismo virtually every football locker room that seems to send an unspoken msage exudg heterosexism.
In the 1970s we know that multiple Washgton football players – Dave Kopay, Jerry Smh, Ray McDonald – were gay, and that some of their teammat knew about them.
THIS GAY UPLE IS FEATURED ESPN’S NEW SERI ABOUT DALLAS COWBOY FANS
Var Hoton Oilers om the early 1990s have spoken publicly about knowg or assumg that at least two of their teammat were gay.