Faggot Forefathers Week Twenty-Seven

” It seems like in our society, they’ve taken away the chance for people to figure out what they are, and it makes for more stress and isolation.”

    — David Kopay

    (June 28, 1942)

    Sign: Cancer

Professional American football player, active in the NFL from 1964-1972. David Kopay is the first athlete from a major sports team to come out as gay. Kopay cites a drunken sexual encounter with his teammate Jerry Smith as a catalyst for accepting  his sexuality.

“Faggot Forefathers” is a weekly series highlighting the lives of historically significant gay men and their contributions to our world. 

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