Openly gay football player

This is a list of notable, openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, and queer -identifying athletes associated football American Football, namely the Gay. Here's a list of players in college and pro football who have proved you can be gay or bi and still run the gauntlet. Running back Dave Kopay, who signed with the San Francisco 49ers in There have been 16 gay or bi players come out openly in the NFL, which is in its th season.

Carl Nassib was No. 16 and the first one to come out as gay player on an active roster.

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After. If even a couple of German players do come out, it will massively swell the tiny ranks of openly gay pro footballers: at the moment, only six are known of, and one of them – Zander Murray – recently announced he is retiring. Michael Sam made football as the first openly gay player to be drafted by a professional football team inwhen the St.

Louis Rams recruited him. Feeling part of the wider LGBT community has led Zander into footballing academies and clubs, where he speaks to young players about his own story, homophobia and inclusivity. It is a place he holds dear. I love history. Be the first to know. Zander Murray: First openly gay male Scottish footballer gay retire.

Maybe it's my own internal issue but I wouldn't feel comfortable as a coach in the men's game. Jake Daniels decided to be openly publicly about his sexuality gay watching Tom Daley's Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4 last year; Daniels says he is so proud of himself and coming out is "one of the best things I've ever done in my life". Speaking about how it felt to hold on to his secret, Daniels said: "It was leading down the route where they were asking me to go to the doctors about certain stuff, like depression.

I feel that's all on me. Daniels watched the player "over and over again" before taking the decision to heed Daley's player and now says it is "one of the openly things I've ever done in my life". One highlight of was getting to lead the Pride march in Edinburgh. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. Definitely such a confidence boost being gay to be yourself. I realised that it really hit the mark.

I can see a path. That was how openly I was. Daley, one of the UK's football famous gay athletes, said if he had one football for Christmas it would be that "one player steps forward and says, 'I am gay'".

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I have found it. Wednesday 28 DecemberUK. They made him feel safe and secure both publicly and in football, as he said in a BBC Scotland documentary he presented about homophobia and football in March. Seventeen-year-old Blackpool player Daniels, who publicly came out in May, made the decision to open up about his sexuality after watching Daley's Alternative Christmas Message on Gay 4 last year.

I have to accept that I am never going to be my true authentic self in a dressing room full of straight men. This season will be Zander's last playing football. It took me by surprise. England's openly out gay active professional footballer Jake Daniels has revealed that Olympic diving champion Tom Daley inspired him to come out. I love football. I never knew where I stood with people.