Trevor Project CEO and Executive Director Amit Paley reacts to NFL player Carl Nassib coming out as gay and its significance for LGBTQ youth.Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib made history as the first openly gay active NFL player when he. In a June 21 Instagram video, the 28-year-old said he finally felt comfortable enough to get the news off his chest.
Messages of support from Nassib's teammates, colleagues and the NFL flooded social media -- and the league promised to match Nassib's $100,000 donation to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts for LGBTQ youth.The Las Vegas Raiders run onto the field before a game at Allegiant Stadium on Sept. 21, 2020, in Las Vegas.
Nassib isn't the first gay NFL player. Several retired players, like Wade Davis, Esera Tuaolo, and Ryan O'Callaghan, came out as gay after leaving the field for good. Some criticized the culture of the NFL, their teams and the sport for keeping them from coming out while in the league."Locker room" culture, which often refers to sexist or homophobic jokes and language used among some men, and homophobia itself were common threads among their stories.
Liberals no longer care after he said he’s a Trump voter
Because the last few times someone tried, they ended up jobless
For real?
American conservatism which may lead to the sideline
Are you here to implement an approved time frame?
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iammix24 Ask the player why rather than making presumptions. No matter what he does, someone somewhere will call it toxic masculinity. I can’t wait to hear about toxic feminist from that same left
There is no homophobia, there's only heterophobia. Gays being afraid of what straight people will think or do. The census on that is straight people don't give a shit which team you are on. And really at this point blame the trans community for setting back the gays
Sports?
Why because the filth people carry inside would have prevented his professional accomplishments, now that he reached them he is free to demonstrate that one has nothing to do with the other. carlnassib1 Raiders CBSNews CNN MSNBC NBCNews CNBC AP Reuters BBC
Because no one cares.
Obviously he had to convince his liberal Communist party that it’s ok to be gay! The rest of us don’t care what someone’s sexual orientation is!
Its not like theirs a time line for coming out. People get to do whatever they’re comfortable with. Keep it moving.
Please keep where you like your private parts placed to yourself. -thats is all
Don’t care!
He needed attention. There have been many gay pro players thru the years. Their teammates and fans knew them. It wasn’t about themselves. It was about the sport.
This country is racist as all hell and homophobic as well. The question I would love answered is why do Americans that know this country is not understanding and welcoming act like it is. This continuous need to act kids is foolish and pitiful!
and who cares? If I come out that I am eating broccoli for the first time will anyone care? I don;t care what sexual preference people are and why do I need to know? Just go and live your life - smh
I love the timing of him doing it after inking a 25 mil deal..I hope he saves some of that money..cause I doubt he will be signed again…
How many times did he drop the soap before he came out? I would not be comfortable in locker room with him to be honest. He has courage to come out, but(t)........
Because this is America
As expected
Because nobody want to get naked in front of a gay man.
Pitiful
What a nice break from toxic females like chrissyteigen
Why does anyone 'come out'?
I don't go to a (male) strip club and worry about which professional sports team the performers favor. Does anyone?
Why are we supposed to care about the sexual proclivity of strangers? Should we not also know about every foot fetishist? I mean, sure we know cenkuygur has a thing for horses, but where does it end?
lol it doesnt signal a shift in in anything. IDIOTS.
Why does it even matter still?
Imagine being the one guy to get hit on by all the straight men. It's too much without years of mental prep.
This is a silly question.
Better question; Why was it so difficult to be one's self in the NFL?
Mind your own business
It was because of you breeders at
nice guy - lets hear more from him
The liberals made him
Maybe because it's not soccer.
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Why does anyone care who he's intimate with?
No one cares.
I’m getting so tired of toxic masculinity.
Have you never watched American sports?
Because republicans/evangelicals have made LBG community some sort of boogeyman that it’s made it dangerous to come out as gay! All the homophobes have made it difficult!
Don’t ask stupid questions… seriously. & during PRIDE …
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It’s a good question, but we also must open ourselves up to the possibility that just not that many nfl players have been gay
Because football involves being naked in front of a bunch of men pretty often.
Children need to be queer or world Islam takes to long.....derr
You Know....We comend you for voicing the way you feel it was your time to move forward...However you have have ppl that are so full of hate..it ruins lives and destroys families..We support you young man, throughout your journey..May God Bless You and Keep You Safe!! Good Luck'
Carl, you are awesome!! Proud of you for standing up! Your courage is an inspiration to our youth! Prayers and blessings!!👍👍👏👏🙏🙏🌠🌠
Amen. Time 4 Americans 2 be true to the ideals that the Founding Fathers embedded in the Constitution. Not the GOP version telling us that’s nothing’s changed since the split from England or the Indian wars or the War of 1812. Ideals don’t change but the circumstances do & so us
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