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An openly gay player in the NFL may be just around the corner and some athletes are celebrating the idea, while others are voicing their concerns.

A number of publications are reporting that an active NFL player is thinking about coming out in the next few months. If it does happen, the athlete would be the first active player in football, baseball, basketball or hockey to announce he’s gay.

In the wake of the Manti Te’o scandal, it has been alleged that potential pro football players have been asked about their sexual orientation during the NFL recent scouting recruitment event.

A former San Francisco 49ers player has been charge for assaulting his ex-boyfriend after the men argued over soy sauce over rice and allegedly stolen underwear.

A football player for a college in Minnesota says he quit the team after years of his coach’s verbal abuse, culminating in his calling him "faggot."

A 17-year-old varsity football player from an elite private school in Atlanta, Ga., has turned himself for allegedly sexually assaulting a teammate in the school’s gym showers.

The NFL may seems like an unlikely place to find a hotbed of activism for gay rights. But more & more players & a former NFL commissioner are coming out -- as advocates for marriage equality.

After an anonymous German professional soccer player told a magazine he was gay, the country’s chancellor is urging him to come out by saying, "You need not fear."

After two football players came out to back gay marriage, the New York Times & others are noting the sea change in the hyper-macho NFL. Next on the Homosexual Agenda: an out-gay pro athlete.

A punter for a major NFL team recently announced that he backs same-sex marriage and is against a measure in Minnesota that would define marriage between one man and one woman.