No openly active gay or bi player has ever played a down in an NFL regular season game. He played in college for Penn State (where I am a proud alum). Nassib, 28, is entering his sixth NFL season, his second with the Raiders after stints with the Browns and Buccaneers. We wish Carl the best of luck this coming season.”
We share his hope that someday soon statements like his will no longer be newsworthy as we march toward full equality for the LGBTQ+ community. “The NFL family is proud of Carl for courageously sharing his truth today,” “Representation matters. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell pledged his support for Nassib, he told Outsports in a statement: I was able to reach Dave Kopay, who came out as gay in 1975 after retiring from a nine-year NFL career, and he was ecstatic.
Please do not take it personally if I decline an interview or am unable to answer your questions. I’m a private person, so I’d ask the media to give me some space as I navigate this exciting time in my life. I only have a small window to achieve greatness in my sport and I owe it to my team, coaches and Raider fans to be completely locked in and at my best for the upcoming season. I am a lanly walk-on who is living his dream. “Lastly, I hope everyone can understand that I am just one person. From the jump, I was greeted with the utmost respect and acceptance. I would not have been able to do this without them. “I am also incredibly thankful for the NFL, my coaches and fellow players for their support. Only until recently, thanks to my family and friends, especially Connor, Cason and Francis, did it seem possible for me to say publicly and proudly that I am gay.
In a series of Instragram posts attached to his original and captured by Lindsay Jones, Nassib said, “I have agonized over this moment for the last 15 years. They also tweeted out, “Proud of you, Carl” from the team’s official account. On the Instagram post, the Raiders tweeted a heart emoji (in silver and black, which is fitting), showing the team supports Nassib and that his announcement was not a shock. I’m very excited to be a part of it and help in any way that I can and I’m really pumped to see what the future holds.” They’re an incredible organization, they’re the number one suicide-prevention service for LGBTQ youth in America and they’re truly doing incredible things.
I actually hope that one day, videos like this and the whole coming out process are not necessary, but until then I will do my best and my part to cultivate a culture that’s accepting and compassionate and I’m going to start by donating $100,000 to the Trevor Project.
I just think that representation and visibility are so important. Watch movies and documentaries online free at SBS On Demand from your computer, tablet or mobile. “I’m a pretty private person so I hope you guys know that I’m not doing this for attention. I really have the best life, the best family, friends and job a guy can ask for.
The Newberg School Board has banned educators from displaying Black Lives Matter and gay pride symbols, prompting a torrent of. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now but finally feel comfortable getting it off my chest. Kevin Slane, Mark Wahlberg got as thin as possible for new movie. I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. “I’m at my house in West Chester Pennsylvania. “What’s up people,” Nassib posted on Instagram. I adore Steve Carell and Timothï¿ 1/2 (C)e Chalamet seems like a genuinely nice, cool, and grateful kid, but even their strenuous performances feel exhausting and void of any tangible pathos.Las Vegas Raiders defensive lineman Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player in history to announce that he is gay. Every single aspect of these people's lives revolves around coping with addiction and addiction itself, but there has to be more in order to have the audience invest in these lives.
It's kind of a weird movie too, but worse is the fact it's a boring weird movie. We never spend long enough periods with either of the characters to garner any real sympathy for them-not until the end anyway when Carell brings it all home. It's not hard to see what the film is trying to do in telling the two parallel perspectives of the father and the son caught in this battle with addiction, but in doing so what results is a disjointed mess of a movie (at least upon first watch). Having not read the source material this may immediately mean less to me, but the structuring of this story as its done in the film doesn't help. Needless to say, Beautiful Boy has no groove to be found. It felt like it was taking this a long time to really find its groove and then I checked my phone to see where we were time-wise and it was an hour and a half in.