Coming Out: 50-Plus Gay Athletes Who Have Broken Boundaries
David Kopay
Young American football fans probably don’t know who David Kopay is. However, LGBTQ+ rights researchers and enthusiasts surely know his name. After all, Kopay was one of the first American professional athletes to come out as gay. His announcement kind of slipped under the radar, probably because it was made in… 1975!
That’s right: long before the letters LGBTQ+ appeared in the news, Kopay made history by taking pride in who he was despite working in a prominently straight (and sometimes anti-gay) environment.
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