Las Vegas Raiders Carl Nassib Announces He Is Gay!

June is surely the month of pride because Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.

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CelebnSports247.com reports that Raiders Defensive Lineman Carl Nassib, 28, made the announcement in an Instagram post:

Carl Nassib posted:

What’s up people? I’m at my house here in West Chester, Pennsylvania. 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, but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest. I really have the best life, I’ve got the best family, friends, and job a guy could ask for.

He continued:

I’m a pretty private person so I hope you guys know that I’m really not doing this for attention. I just think that representation and visibility are so important. I actually hope that like one day, videos like this and the whole coming-out process are just not necessary. But until then, I’m going to do my best and do my part to cultivate a culture that’s accepting, that’s compassionate and I’m going to start by donating $100,000 to the Trevor Project.

The Trevor Project provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to the LGBTQ+ community.

It commended Nassib’s announcement, saying in a statement that his donation will help it “scale our life-saving crisis services to reach the more than 1.8 million LGBTQ youth who seriously consider suicide each year in the U.S.”

Said Nassib:

They’re an incredible organization, they’re the No. 1 suicide-prevention service for LGBTQ youth in America. And they’re truly doing incredible things. And I’m very excited to be a part of it, help in any way that I can and I’m really pumped to see what the future holds.