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NFL: Carl Nassib und sein Coming-Out

Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Raiders became the first active NFL professional to come out as gay. A step that is fundamentally to be welcomed, but can still be described as very courageous today. A comment.

The world is changing. What was unthinkable a few years ago is now at least partially possible. With Carl Nassib, the NFL has its first openly gay player in the league.

His coming out is of course very welcome. It gives him the opportunity to live his life without having to hide in any way – even publicly. But there is so much more!

Nassib himself said in his Twitter video: “I just believe that it is important to be visible and to show yourself. At the same time, I hope that videos like this and this whole coming-out process are superfluous. But until then far, I do my best to exemplify a culture of acceptance and compassion. ” It’s a statement that hits the nail on the head.

In today’s world it is unfortunately still not a matter of course to come out as homosexual, at least not in men’s professional sport. With women you are much further along. More and more players in team sports like the WNBA for example or in global women’s football have dared to take the step and it is widely accepted and viewed as the normality that it is.

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