Are there/were there any openly gay NFL players?
Do you mean when they were active or after they retired? Esera Toualo (the person in dolphinboy’s link) came out after he retired. (Incidentally, I was within six feet of a swimtrunked Esera Toualo in a hotel pool once…the man is HAWWWT!)
Esera Toualo signed his book for me.
I’m not aware of anyone out while actively playing, but these days there are probably more and more “don’t ask don’t tell” players.
And, of course, the first gay NFL player to come to mind was Dave Kopay, who was the first NFL player to come out, in 1975 (also after he retired). As far as I know, the only ex-NFL player to come out besides Kopay and Toualo was Roy Simmons. There were and are, of course, other gay players (like Jerry Smith, who Kopay outed after his death from AIDS), but generally, they stay closeted.
There are some rumors that Kordell Stewart is gay
Every QB that ever threw a pass to Terrell Owens is gay.
Or so he eventually claims.
Would that make TO their catcher?
Receiver.
Or tight end.
Running a wide out.
I’ll stop now.
:rolleyes:
back to the OP, nobody has come out while they were active in any of the major team sports played in the US… NFL, MLB, NBA, or NHL. There have been players from the first three who have come out after they retired.
There have been openly gay female players in tennis, golf, and the WNBA.