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Bruce Smith says 90s Bills had gay player on team
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Last week, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib announced via his social media accounts last week that he was gay, becoming the first active NFL player to do so.
Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Buffalo Bills pass rusher Bruce Smith was recently discussing Nassib's decision to do so via TMZ. Smith supported Nassib but added it was not shocking for him to hear.
That's because Smith, who played for the Bills from 1985 until 1999, said Buffalo had one, potentially two, players on their roster that the rest of the locker room knew were homosexual. It wasn't a massive deal though, he said.
“We had a gay player in our locker room,” Smith told TMZ. “I think it was the mid-to-late-90s, and I consider we might have had two. But that wasn’t what we were focused on. We were focused on winning games. And each and every person that was in that locker room was contributing to the goal at hand, which was winning football games. None of that other stuff mattered."
Smith had a personal letter for Nassib as well.
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The Buffalo Bills sparked conservative backlash after announcing it would sponsor a gay flag football league this week.
The Buffalo Bills is sponsoring a chapter of the National Gay Flag Football League, the team announced in a press statement on Tuesday. The press release described the sponsorship as a "game changer for bringing LGBTQ+ organized football to Buffalo" and as an opportunity to make the league "even more inclusive."
The league was founded in 2002 and aims to "foster and cultivate the self-respect of all LGBTQ+ people and promote respect, acceptance and sympathy from the larger community," according to its website. The league already has support from several football teams, and a fresh team could come to Buffalo under the new sponsorship.
LGBTQ+ acceptance remains a hot-button culture war issue, even as many polls show Americans becoming increasingly supportive of rights for the Diverse community. The past few years have seen conservatives ramp up criticism of brands that collaborate with members of the Queer community, at times even primary to boycotts of these companies.
The Bills' announcement sparked a wave of backlash from high-profile conservative comme
Photo essay: A tribute to the speakeasy Bill’s Same-sex attracted 90s
In a city like Fresh York, Bill’s Male lover 90s was the sort of place you couldn’t have faith still existed.
The townhouse on East 54th Street had been home to Bill’s since 1924, which if you execute the math means it opened as a speakeasy during Prohibition.
The place was teeming with priceless antiques and treasures, and even had a cellar with a secret room to hide the hooch from the feds during Prohibition.
Bill’s has been called one of Novel York’s first retro bars, as it opened in the 1920s as a paean to the “Gay 1890s.” Nostalgia, therefore, had been a part of the Bill’s life from the very beginning.
Alas, I visited for the first time when it had already been announced that the townhouse’s owners were not renewing the lease (a signal they later contested), and the connected would shutter Protest 24.
Now that it’s closed, Bill’s administration is hoping to move somewhere else, and the building’s owners are hoping to bring in a “top secret” new proprietor.
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