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San Francisco 49ers' Katie Sowers Becomes NFL's First Openly Homosexual Coach
San Francisco 49ers assistant coach Katie Sowers has turn into the NFL's first openly gay coach.
The Kansas native — who is also just the second woman to be a full-time assistant coach in the NFL — recently opened up about the importance of public LGBTQ inclusion in the league.
“No matter what you do in animation, one of the most important things is to be true to who you are,” Sowers said in an interview with Outsports.
“There are so many people who name as LGBT in the NFL, as in any business, that do not feel comfortable organism public about their sexual orientation.”
Sowers, 31, played professional football in the Women’s Football Alliance and traces her affectionate for the sport back to when she was just 8 years aged — having described “tackling” as her favorite part of football.
Sowers said she experienced her first taste of LGBTQ discrimination in sports while in college, when was rejected from a volunteer coaching job because of her “lifestyle.”
“I was so warm about coaching and to feel enjoy my opportunities were limited because of who I loved was hard to deal with,” Sowers told Outsports.
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) -- Michael Sam was picked by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the NFL draft Saturday, becoming the first openly gay player drafted by a pro football team.
Sam played at Missouri, and came out as gay in media interviews earlier this year. His team and coaches knew his secret and kept it for his ultimate college season. He went on to have the best season of his career: He was the Southeastern Conference defensive player of the year.
"Thank you to the St. Louis Rams and the whole city of St. Louis. I'm using every once of this to achieve greatness!!" Sam tweeted moments after he was picked, with a picture of himself wearing a Rams cap and a pink polo shirt.
The pick came after several rounds of suspense. The first round of the day came and went, no Sam. Then the second, and the third, and finally, the day was down to just a handful of picks.
When Mike Kensil, the NFL's vice president of game operations, walked to the podium at Radio City Music Hall in the draft's final minutes to announce the Rams' second-to-last pick, the crowd got a sense something was up. Very few of the last evening picks were announced at the podium. Twitter lit up with suggestions the
Super Bowl-Bound 49er Says Gays Not Welcome on His Team
01/30/2013
Washington– The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and trans civil rights corporation – is condemning comments by San Francisco 49er Chris Culliver in which he says same-sex attracted players wouldn’t be welcome on his team. The homophobic remarks stand in stark contrast to the numerous NFL players who advocate for equality – including Baltimore Raven Brendon Ayanbadejo, an outspoken straight ally who will grab the field against Culliver this Sunday.
Culliver made the remarks during a Super Bowl media day interview yesterday, telling a radio host: "I don't do the queer guys man. I don't do that. No, we don't got no queer people on the team, they gotta get up out of here if they do….Can't be with that pleasant stuff. Nah…can't be…in the locker room man.”
“Chris Culliver’s comments represent the height of ignorance and the type of homophobic banter that professional athletes rarely use anymore,” said HRC Vice President of Communications Fred Sainz. “Chris Cullive
Tresolini: Newark, Stanford great Harris coped with incongruity of being gay NFL lineman
There had never been anyone like him before.
Little did we know the extent to which that would go.
But that was our belief when Kwame Harris, all 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds of him and still growing, showed up on Newark High’s revolting line as a ninth grade phenom in 1996.
It was preposterous. Nobody could be that good and that big as a freshman.
In 1997, Harris became Delaware’s first offensive lineman to be first-team All-State as a sophomore. By his senior year in 1999, he was a three-time choice, a two-way first-team pick while also starring on the mention champion Yellowjackets’ defensive front, plus the first lineman to be state Repulsive Player of the Year.
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.By that time, college football’s recruiting eyes, which had rarely glanced toward the First State, were riveted on Harris. Penn State coach Joe Paterno landed on the field at Hoffman Memorial Stadium in a helicopter when he came to woo him.
Those coaches learned they had to time their visits appropriately, then-Newark coach Butch Simpson said, because Harris would not mis