Oh boy - gay "current" NFLer?

[paladincub21]

oh boy.

Atlanta Falcons' Ovie Mughelli Was Just Outed By a Jilted Ex-Lover. Uh Oh

Fast-forward a few years and Mughelli goes pro, and for "professional" reasons needed to end the relationship. About another two years pass, contact is reestablished (yes we are seriously summarizing here), and Mughelli arranges a meet with his sometimes-lover -

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[clwolf81]

Wasn't expecting that one.

Let's hope he'll be a champion for gay rights and that the Falcons could utilize this to their advantage, especially in one of the top 10 largest gay markets. The ex could seriously have damaged the guy's career, but at the same time, he could be a champion for tolerance in the league.

[timzilla]

In this environment and given that I now believe we are fighting a literal war for our basic civil rights, if any gay man has sex with a closeted "straight" man, he is a traitor to the cause. Plain and simple in my estimation. And if you have had sex with a closeted celebrity-any celebrity-and you don't immediately go public and drag them kicking and screaming out of the closet, you are a collaborator in the effort to strip all of us of our basic human rights.

I didn't always feel this way. But I do now. The hypocrisy and our self-loathing have to end if we are ever going to get a deserved place at the table in this country.

[nightfallcub]

I tend to agree. these closet cases want to have their cake and eat it too. we shouldn't allow them to have that.

[mondragon]

I think it's awful that there's an assumption that when people become interested in you because of your profession you lose all rights to any kind of personal privacy.

Talking about who you've slept with when you don't have their permission to do so is just really tacky and low-class. Period. Gay or straight, closeted or not.

I think there's a clear exception to this for politicians who are working against equal rights, but for everyone else I don't think there's anyone who goes to the press with a story of their one-night-stand/committed relationship with someone more famous who isn't doing it out of a sick need for validation and attention.

[timzilla]

The religious zealots have this country in a stranglehold and they are committed to doing the worst to every single homosexual. If you really think that Fred Phelps is an aberration then you are severely misguided. Right now they are rejoicing over the outcome of their extensive efforts to criminalize homosexuality in Africa.

Make no mistake about it, the time for politeness and reasonableness and pleasantries and worrying about what seems tacky or low-class is long-over. I am not going silently into the re-education camp or worse. The rampant hypocrisy of these latent homophobes invalidates any privacy rights they may have. They lost those when in the name of religion they voted to eliminate my civil rights. They want to make it a discussion about religious sin and publicly criticize, discuss and attack my sexuality, then its open season on theirs as far as I am concerned. They opened their closet door to hurl those lies, I believe we need to kick it in.

As far as I am concerned, this guy is a hero.