{"id":60879,"date":"2021-06-28T00:43:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T07:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=60879"},"modified":"2021-06-28T00:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T07:51:43","slug":"footballer-skater-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/06\/28\/footballer-skater-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes Come Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBallet dancers and hairdressers and drag queens made it safe for
\nfootball players to come out and not the other way around.\u201d <\/em><\/span> 
\n\u2013 <\/em>Dan Savage <\/strong>puts Carl Nassib<\/strong>\u2019s coming out into the context of those who came before him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another week, another coming out story.  This time, Carl Nassib made a bit of history.  The defensive lineman from the Las Vegas Raiders <\/em>made a wonderfully matter-of-fact video announcing that he\u2019s gay.  Not only that, he also pledged $100K to The Trevor Project <\/em>\u2013 and informed the uninitiated about the work they do with their 24\/7, 365-day-a-year suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ youths.  What was more staggering was the response from the public \u2013 mostly positive.<\/p>\n

When the criticism came, it was primarily from the gay community.  Many noted that Carl was not the first pro-footballer to come out \u2013 that was Michael Sam<\/strong>.  Some hypothesize that Nassib is being praised because he\u2019s white, while Sam is black.  It bears mentioning that although Sam came out as a college senior and was drafted by the St. Louis Rams<\/em>, he never actually played for the NFL <\/em>\u2013 he was cut preseason.  His professional career was spent with the Montreal Alouettes <\/em>\u2013 which reminds me of a song I learned as a tyke.  Perhaps if Michael had not gone public six years ago, the climate for Carl would not be so welcoming.  Be that as it may, I applaud anybody who comes out \u2013 regardless of their skin tone.<\/p>\n

Leave it to Shecky <\/em>Behar <\/strong>to make one of her trademark Borscht Belt <\/em>quips.  While discussing Carl\u2019s coming out on The View<\/em><\/strong>, Joy <\/strong>said, \u201cAfter they said penetration in the end zone, they lost me.\u201d  I bet that KILLED in the Catskills<\/em>\u2026after Jell-O<\/em>!  The other ladies looked\u2026well, horrified.  The segment closed with Joy saying, \u201cBy the way, that inappropriate joke I made for daytime television \u2013 scratch it.  Make believe I never said it.\u201d  Done.<\/p>\n

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Champion figure skater Jason Brown <\/strong>also made headlines.  \u201cI believe that love will always win, and every story will unfold differently for each individual.  Mine unfolds a bit now.  I\u2019m gay, and that\u2019s a story still being written.\u201d  One of the first people to offer congratulations was fellow skater, Adam Rippon<\/strong>.  \u201cYour skating is equally as beautiful as you are as a human.  You an incredible person.  HAPPY PRIDE, Jason.  SO MUCH love for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBallet dancers and hairdressers and drag queens made it safe for football players to come out and not the other way around.\u201d   \u2013 Dan Savage puts Carl Nassib\u2019s coming out into the context of those who came before him. Another week, another coming out story.  This time, Carl Nassib made a bit of history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60895,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60879\/revisions\/60895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}