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Coming out
sports
NFL Player Carl Nassib Reflects on Coming Out Last Year
Carl Nassib is opening up about the minute-long Instagram video that changed his life.Nassib, who is now a free agent after being released by the Las Vegas Raiders earlier this year, detailed his “agonizing” decision to publicly come out last summer, he told former NFL star Michael Strahan on Good Morning America."I stared at the phone for, like, an hour just looking at it, trying to hype myself up," Nassib shared. "The last thing I said was like, 'You know what — for the kids.' And, pressed post.” In June 2021, the 29-year-old athlete came out as gay on social media, telling the world that he “finally” felt comfortable enough to “get it off my chest.”The decision came after fifteen years of battling “difficult times'' in navigating his sexuality.
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