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When he pulled the napkin away, his eyes were scorched and watery. 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. Sitting down, he quickly launched into some questions for me, as well as ground rules for our conversation. This story first ran in and is being republished as part of our Pride Pioneer series.

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, cowboy an over-sized duffel bag… and a delicately clenched martini.

Subscribe to our Newsletter today. I never expected it. 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.

He wanted to share his story, but not all of it. Not yet. The Dallas Cowboys Have a Long, Odd History of Queerness From out players on the field to vocal allies and even an odd story about the team's site, the Dallas Cowboys have quite the gay history.

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 dallas or had any kind of gay experience. To be sure, the Bucs have their own history with the LGBTQ community, namely a really gay former logo, a tight end.

Who he had been with them in that time was far more important to them than what he is. 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. They just love me, they always have.

This Sunday at gay not-so-small ceremony in Southern California, Rohrer will marry his boyfriend of two-plus years, Joshua Ross. It was there at the bar that he struck up a conversation with a young man named Josh. This was inconceivable for Rohrer just a few years ago.

We sat in silence for the better part of a minute, him present with the last few months of his life. Carl Nassib is the first and still only to ever play a down as openly gay, but the rest are still trailblazers.

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. It is updated at the end. His pace of speaking slowed.

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List of LGBTQ American football players For a more in-depth discussion of the topic go here: Homosexuality in American Football. When his friends and family and teammates had told him over the years that they loved him, they really meant it.

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. With Jeff Rohrer, you have to expect the unexpected. Our weekly playbook is packed with everything from locker room chatter to pressing LGBTQ sports issues.

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. The Dallas Cowboys play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to kick off the NFL season.

I asked him what that was.