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NFL Player Comes Out - newguy - 06-21-2021

Carl Nassib of the Raiders has just become the first active nfl player to come out of the closet.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/us/nfl-carl-nassib-gay-spt/index.html

RE: NFL Player Comes Out - TrumpCard - 06-22-2021

(06-21-2021, 10:33 PM)newguy Wrote:  Carl Nassib of the Raiders has just become the first active nfl player to come out of the closet.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/us/nfl-carl-nassib-gay-spt/index.html

Thanks for posting.  There's a temptation to say, "It's 2021, not 1981.  We're past the time when gay people have to remain in the closet."  That should be true, but sadly, it's not.  As one of my friends recently said, "We need Pride Month because there are still gay teens out there who think it's better to be dead than gay."  Now we have an example of one of the most "manly" people in the world -- a successful defensive lineman in the prime of an NFL career -- who's existence proves that you don't need to be straight to be a real man.  Some of us -- probably most of us -- already know that, but this revelation is important to some people out there.

RE: NFL Player Comes Out - OutsiderFan - 06-22-2021

Based on statistics, it seems there should be somewhere between 15-20 gay men in the NFL. But it might be more because we don't know if gay men have a higher proclivity to play sports and football in particular, than non-gay men. I doubt the percentage of gay athletes is lower than the general population.

RE: NFL Player Comes Out - TrumpCard - 06-22-2021

32 teams x 53 players on each roster = 1696 total players on NFL roster. I’m not up to date on the literature, but I was under the impression that the prevalence among men of self-defining as gay is much higher than 1%.

RE: NFL Player Comes Out - Nan3cy - 06-22-2021

When my son was in high school 20 years ago, I was talking to another x-country team mom about how nice it was that there was a single team for both the girls and the boys, with different events of course. She made the comment that when she talked to her son about it, his attitude was “no big whoop.” I said, but that’s why it IS a big whoop, that these kids don’t see it as one. I hope there will be a day soon when a gay NFL player is “no big whoop.” Amid all the craziness, there is some progress.

RE: NFL Player Comes Out - 82lsju - 06-22-2021

(06-22-2021, 04:01 PM)TrumpCard Wrote:  32 teams x 53 players on each roster = 1696 total players on NFL roster. I’m not up to date on the literature, but I was under the impression that the prevalence among men of self-defining as gay is much higher than 1%.

Quote:LGBT Identification Rises to 5.6% in Latest U.S. Estimate

More than half of LGBT adults (54.6%) identify as bisexual. About a quarter (24.5%) say they are gay, with 11.7% identifying as lesbian and 11.3% as transgender. An additional 3.3% volunteer another non-heterosexual preference or term to describe their sexual orientation, such as queer or same-gender-loving. Respondents can give multiple responses when describing their sexual identification; thus, the totals exceed 100%.

Rebasing these percentages to represent their share of the U.S. adult population finds 3.1% of Americans identifying as bisexual, 1.4% as gay, 0.7% as lesbian and 0.6% as transgender.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/329708/lgbt-identification-rises-latest-estimate.aspx

RE: NFL Player Comes Out - BostonCard - 06-22-2021

(06-22-2021, 05:19 PM)82lsju Wrote:  
(06-22-2021, 04:01 PM)TrumpCard Wrote:  32 teams x 53 players on each roster = 1696 total players on NFL roster. I’m not up to date on the literature, but I was under the impression that the prevalence among men of self-defining as gay is much higher than 1%.



Quote:LGBT Identification Rises to 5.6% in Latest U.S. Estimate



More than half of LGBT adults (54.6%) identify as bisexual. About a quarter (24.5%) say they are gay, with 11.7% identifying as lesbian and 11.3% as transgender. An additional 3.3% volunteer another non-heterosexual preference or term to describe their sexual orientation, such as queer or same-gender-loving. Respondents can give multiple responses when describing their sexual identification; thus, the totals exceed 100%.

Rebasing these percentages to represent their share of the U.S. adult population finds 3.1% of Americans identifying as bisexual, 1.4% as gay, 0.7% as lesbian and 0.6% as transgender.



https://news.gallup.com/poll/329708/lgbt-identification-rises-latest-estimate.aspx



There is a generational change, though.  Most football players are Millenials or older Gen Z, where the proportion of people identifying as LGBT are 9.1% or 15.9%, respectively.



Nassib is definitely not the only gay NFL player.




BC

RE: NFL Player Comes Out - 82lsju - 06-22-2021

(06-22-2021, 05:34 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  
(06-22-2021, 05:19 PM)82lsju Wrote:  
(06-22-2021, 04:01 PM)TrumpCard Wrote:  32 teams x 53 players on each roster = 1696 total players on NFL roster. I’m not up to date on the literature, but I was under the impression that the prevalence among men of self-defining as gay is much higher than 1%.



Quote:LGBT Identification Rises to 5.6% in Latest U.S. Estimate



More than half of LGBT adults (54.6%) identify as bisexual. About a quarter (24.5%) say they are gay, with 11.7% identifying as lesbian and 11.3% as transgender. An additional 3.3% volunteer another non-heterosexual preference or term to describe their sexual orientation, such as queer or same-gender-loving. Respondents can give multiple responses when describing their sexual identification; thus, the totals exceed 100%.

Rebasing these percentages to represent their share of the U.S. adult population finds 3.1% of Americans identifying as bisexual, 1.4% as gay, 0.7% as lesbian and 0.6% as transgender.



https://news.gallup.com/poll/329708/lgbt-identification-rises-latest-estimate.aspx



There is a generational change, though.  Most football players are Millenials or older Gen Z, where the proportion of people identifying as LGBT are 9.1% or 15.9%, respectively.



Nassib is definitely not the only gay NFL player.




BC

Quote:The vast majority of Generation Z adults who identify as LGBT -- 72% -- say they are bisexual. Thus, 11.5% of all Gen Z adults in the U.S. say they are bisexual, with about 2% each identifying as gay, lesbian or transgender.

About half of millennials (those aged 24 to 39 in 2020) who identify as LGBT say they are bisexual [5.1% bisexual, 2.0% gay, 0.8% lesbian, 1.2% transgender, 0.4% other]. In older age groups, expressed bisexual preference is not significantly more common than expressed gay or lesbian preference.