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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 publicly in the NFL, which is in its th season. Carl Nassib was No. 16 and the first one to come out as gay while on an active roster.

After. There has been only one player who has publicly come out as gay or bisexual while being an active player in the National Football League (NFL): Carl Nassib, who came out as gay on June 21, , while with the Las Vegas Raiders. [1]. In , Nassib – then playing for the Las Vegas Raiders – became the first active NFL player in league history to publicly identify as gay. Nassib said he agonized over the decision for Despite fathering children with at least two different women, NFL player Braylon Edwards was rumored to be gay after fellow player Will Demps said in an interview that Edwards had asked him.

Former NFL player Ryan O'Callaghan has come out as gay, revealing that his anguish over his sexuality drove him to write a suicide note. He even built a cabin near his Kansas City home and bought guns, planning to take his secret to the grave. It is still exceedingly rare for top-flight male US athletes to come out.

The year-old told Outsports, a website focused on LGBT issues in sport, that he realised he was gay while at high school in a conservative northern California town. The 6ft 7in, lb kg hulk saw the ultra-macho world of American football as the perfect camouflage for his true identity. A litany of sporting injuries eventually led O'Callaghan into painkiller addiction.

Most sport fans 'would welcome gay players'. As his NFL career waned, he began to distance himself from his family, telling himself that it would make his suicide easier for them to accept. O'Callaghan eventually plucked up the courage to tell Kansas City Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli about his sexuality.

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Pioli responded: "So what's the problem you wanted to talk to me about? O'Callaghan, who retired from the NFL in , described the huge relief the revelation brought him. Skip to content. Share Save. SB Nation. More on LGBT issues. The day I told my students I was gay.