Rairs' Carl Nassib g out as gay n change the NFL and society

Contents:

• FORMER COWBOYS LEBACKER OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC WEDDG
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• 'THE NFL NEED THIS': HOW CARL NASSIB'S G OUT AS GAY N CHANGE FOOTBALL AND SOCIETY
• FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS FIRST MARRIED OUT GAY EX-NFL PLAYER
• JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED
• WILLIEGAY

FORMER COWBOYS LEBACKER OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC WEDDG

Jeff Rohrer, a former Dallas Cowboys lebacker, me out as gay Wednday an terview The New York Tim. “If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately, ” Rohrer told the Tim. ”Rohrer jos a very small club of former NFL players who have e out as gay.

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen told Outsports on Thursday that he is gay, makg him the first publicly out male ach major men’s pro sports the Uned Stat.

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JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

After Gay served his four-game spensn to start the season, he played well for 13 gam as well as all three playoff gam. Former Dallas Cowboys lebacker Jeff Rohrer said Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib uld change the world after beg the first active openly gay NFL player. He played the NFL om 1982 to 1989, and 2018, he me out as gay when he beme what was believed to be the first former or current NFL player to enter to a same-sex marriage.

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'THE NFL NEED THIS': HOW CARL NASSIB'S G OUT AS GAY N CHANGE FOOTBALL AND SOCIETY

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FORMER DALLAS COWBOY JEFF ROHRER IS FIRST MARRIED OUT GAY EX-NFL PLAYER

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Jeff Rohrer, the former Dallas Cowboys lebacker who me out publicly as gay last week, married his boyiend, sk-re expert Joshua Ross, a ceremony Hollywood on Sunday. As far as we know, Rohrer is the first publicly out gay former NFL player to be married to another man. Retired NFL lebacker Jeff Rohrer is gay and set to bee the first former or current NFL player a same-sex marriage, he revealed a new terview published on Wednday.

JEFF ROHRER — RETIRED DALLAS COWBOYS LEBACKER — COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE'S GETTG MARRIED

Said Rohrer, “If I had told the Dallas Cowboys the 1980s that I was gay, I would have been cut immediately.

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WILLIEGAY

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