NFL's Carl Nassib Draws Cheers After Publicly Announcing He's Gay

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Carl Nassib, a defensive lineman for the Las Vegas Raiders, made history this week as the first active NFL player to publicly identify as gay. We'll talk about the significance of his announcement with Rick Welts, president and chief operating officer of the Golden State Warriors. Welts himself came out while he was an executive with the Phoenix Suns, and we'll hear his reflections on the pressures faced by LGBTQ professional athletes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.8	From KQED. And welcome back to Forum. Scott Schaefer here for Mina Kim. And for the rest of the hour, we're going to focus on a bit of sports history made this week when NFL player Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Raiders
0:56.3	announced on Instagram that he's gay.
0:59.3	What's up, people? I'm Carl Nassiv. I'm at my house here in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
1:03.1	I just want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. I've been meaning to do this for a while now,
1:07.5	but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest. I really have the best
1:11.7	life. I got the best family, friends, and job a guy could ask for. I'm a pretty private person,
1:18.0	so I hope you guys know that I'm really not doing this for attention. I just think that
1:21.9	representation and visibility are so important. I actually hope that one day,
1:29.3	videos like this and the whole coming out process are just not necessary. It's a little hard to believe, but that makes him the first NFL player,
1:35.1	active player, to declare that he's gay while he's still playing. And joining us now to talk
1:39.2	about the significance of Nassab's announcement and the pressures faced by openly LGBT athletes, someone who made history
1:46.0	himself when he came out as gay 10 years ago while he was a top team executive with the Phoenix
1:50.9	Sons. Rick Welts has just retired after a very successful decade as president and C.O. of the
1:56.7	Golden State Warriors. Rick, welcome to forum. Scott, always great to be with you. I hate to start
2:02.7	with a correction. Uh-oh. You're not formally with them. I have seven more days.
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