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Nassib, NFL's first openly gay player, announces his retirement
  + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Nov 8, 2020; Inglewood, California, USA; Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib (94) celebrates at the end of the game against the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium. Nassib's Las Vegas Raiders jersey became the top seller after he came out. In 2014, Michael Sam became the first openly gay player drafted to the NFL when he was selected by the St. Louis Rams but he never played a regular season game. Other former NFL players have come out after they retired starting with running back David Kopay, who said he was gay in 1975. Nassib played at Penn State before being recruited by the Cleveland Browns in the third round of the 2016 draft.
Persons: Carl Nassib, Kirby Lee, Michael Sam, David Kopay, Nassib, Rory Carroll, Ed Osmond Organizations: Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, SoFi, The Raiders, Chargers, USA, NFL, St, Louis Rams, Penn State, Cleveland Browns, Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Raiders, Bucs, Thomson Locations: Inglewood , California, USA, Los Angeles
NFL Hall of Famer and NBC Sports analyst Tony Dungy is facing renewed criticism for his history of anti-LGBTQ statements after he tweeted an anti-transgender conspiracy theory last week. That’s the criteria for avoiding hell.”In another tweet from 2020, Dungy wrote that being “LGBTQ is a lifestyle,” a sentiment that suggests being queer is a choice. . . things will happen.’’Cyd Zeigler, an LGBTQ advocate and a co-founder of the LGBTQ sports site Outsports.com, has been raising the alarm bells on Dungy’s anti-LGBTQ sentiments for years. “I’ve never called for Tony Dungy to be fired or lose his job or his ability to provide for his family,” Zeigler said. Zeigler said he isn’t convinced that Dungy’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric would stop anytime soon.
Instead, Russia's failing war effort has raised doubts about Putin's hold on power. For now, Putin looks secure, but past Russian leaders have suffered at home for blunders abroad. By the following summer, the Germans had taken huge swathes of Russian-controlled territory and a million Russian soldiers were dead. Captured Russian soldiers after the defeat at Tannenberg, in present-day Poland, on August 30, 1914. After an ineffectual troop surge, Gorbachev gave up on trying to improve the situation, and the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989.
A Hampton University football player came out publicly as gay, a first for a football player at a historically Black college or university, according to Outsports.com, an LGBTQ sports news site. Byron Perkins, a Division I defensive back for the Hampton University Pirates, came out as gay in an Instagram story shared Wednesday. Perkins told Outsports that he’d like to help other gay Black men who are struggling with their sexuality. “There hasn’t been an out gay football athlete at an HBCU. “I’m sure the young man has heard his fair share of slurs from teammates unaware that he is gay.
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