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They just love me, they always have. With Jeff Rohrer, you have to expect the unexpected. We sat in silence for the better part of a minute, him present with the last few months of his life.

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When he pulled the napkin away, his eyes were scorched and watery. Carl Nassib is the first and still only to ever play a down as openly gay, but the rest are still trailblazers. It is updated at the end. Sitting down, he quickly launched into some questions for me, as well as gay rules for our conversation.

It was like a fog had lifted from his sight, and he saw his own kindness — years of generosity with teammates and friends — coming back to him. When the 6-foot-3, pound former Dallas Cowboys linebacker approached our table in the corner of a dimly lit Beverly Hills restaurant a couple of weeks ago, he was dressed like a stereotypical straight guy, clothes on the baggy side, carrying an over-sized duffel bag… and a delicately clenched martini.

Who he had been with them in that time was far more important to them than what he is. List of LGBTQ American football players For a more in-depth discussion of the topic go here: Homosexuality in American Football. His pace of speaking slowed.

Our weekly playbook is packed with everything from locker room chatter to pressing LGBTQ sports issues. Not yet. This story first ran in and is being republished as part of our Pride Pioneer series. I asked him what that was. This is a list of notable, openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, and queer -identifying athletes associated with American Football, namely the NFL.

This includes those who were posthumously outed. The Dallas Cowboys play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to cowboy off the NFL season. This was inconceivable for Rohrer just a few years ago. Dallas his friends and family and teammates had told him over the years that they loved him, they really meant it.

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To be sure, the Bucs have their own history with the LGBTQ community, namely a really gay former logo, a tight end. While he pursued a life he loved, with people he still loves very much, there was still something he knew was a secret bubbling inside of him, a secret he could never let out.

Still, as we tip-toed into some questions about the first plus years of his life it was clear Rohrer had a lot to say.

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I never expected it. He had never, while he was playing in the NFL for the Cowboys or at any point during his marriage to his wife, dated men, had a boyfriend or had any kind of gay experience. Subscribe to our Newsletter today. He was nervously hopeful about this entire public coming-out process and the small collection of writers he had to open up to with his story.

It was an evening about three years ago that Rohrer let the Wolfman out, quietly making his way up Robertson Boulevard for an after-work cocktail at the popular gay West Hollywood watering hole Tortilla Republic. This Sunday at a not-so-small ceremony in Southern California, Rohrer will marry his boyfriend of two-plus years, Joshua Ross.

He wanted to share his story, but not all of it.