NFL Films highlights Gay Bowl and LGBT flag football new special - Outsports

Contents:

• GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER FLIX: WHAT FILMS TO SEE?
• THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB
• NFL FILMS HIGHLIGHTS THE GAY BOWL AND LGBTQ FLAG FOOTBALL NEW SPECIAL
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• ARE ANY FOOTBALLERS GAY? LOOKG STAR RSELL TOVEY EXPOS THEIR SECRET WORLD THE PASS
• NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

GAY FOOTBALL PLAYER FLIX: WHAT FILMS TO SEE?

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Dennis is a 28-year-old gay man who plays on a Wt Hollywood softball team wh his close, tty pals. Intertgly, this film was directed by gay producer Greg Berlanti (hband of gay soccer player Robbie Rogers) and stars actor John Mahoney who lived the glass closet until his 2017 ath. The straight-washed trailer above only hts at the gay storyle buried this film’s send half.

When Iceland’s bad-boy football star Ottar Thor out as gay, his entire life flat quicker than a punctured soccer ball.

THREE GAY FOOTBALL PLAYERS FEATURED NFL NETWORK SEGMENT ON CARL NASSIB

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NFL FILMS HIGHLIGHTS THE GAY BOWL AND LGBTQ FLAG FOOTBALL NEW SPECIAL

Dpe his succsful reer, O’Callaghan faced a challengg personal stggle as a closeted gay athlete a hyper-mascule sport. However, beg gay a sport that prriz toughns and heteronormative ials ma difficult for him to be te to himself.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

He began to abe pakillers and alhol as a way to pe wh the prsure and the fear of beg disvered as gay. Another documentary on Netflix that featur a gay football player is “Team Thor: Part 2. ” While not solely foced on football, this documentary short clus a scene where actor Chris Hemsworth’s character plays football wh his roommate, who happens to be gay.

ARE ANY FOOTBALLERS GAY? LOOKG STAR RSELL TOVEY EXPOS THEIR SECRET WORLD THE PASS

There may be other documentari or films on Netflix that touch on the experienc of gay nfl football players or LGBTQ players more broadly. The subject was the impact of Carl Nassib g out as gay the NFL for the Las Vegas Rairs.

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

NFL PROUDLY CLAR 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' NEW VIO

“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.