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Carl Nassib Becomes First Active NFL Player to Come Out as Gay – The Wall Street Journal

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Carl Nassib Becomes First Active NFL Player to Come Out as Gay – The Wall Street Journal

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first NFL player to come out as gay while still playing in the league, a significant moment in an American sport long identified with traditional ideas of masculinity.

“I just want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” Nassib said in a one-minute video posted to his Instagram account. “I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest.”

No openly gay player has played in a regular-season NFL game. Defensive lineman Michael Sam came out as gay before the 2014 NFL draft. He was drafted in the seventh round by the St. Louis Rams and played for them in the preseason but did not make a regular-season roster.

A handful of other NFL players have come out after their playing careers ended, most famously running back David Kopay in 1975.

The Raiders tweeted a longer statement written by Nassib and also posted on the player’s Instagram account, with the message “Proud of you, Carl” and a heart in the team’s signature black. The NFL twitter account tweeted Nassib’s video and added, “The NFL family is proud of you, Carl.”

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a statement that the “NFL family is proud of Carl for courageously sharing his truth today. Representation matters. We share his hope that someday soon statements like his will no longer be newsworthy as we march toward full equality for the LGBTQ+ community. We wish Carl the best of luck this coming season.”

In his statement, Nassib said he had “agonized over this moment for the last 15 years” and expressed gratitude for the support of the NFL, coaches and other players.

“From the jump, I was greeted with the utmost respect and acceptance,” he wrote.

In April 2013, NBA center Jason Collins became the first active athlete in one of the four major U.S. men’s professional leagues to publicly come out. The same year, Robbie Rogers of Major League Soccer’s LA Galaxy also came out.

Nassib was a third-round pick by Cleveland out of Penn State in 2015. He’s played five seasons: two with the Browns, two with Tampa Bay and last season with the Raiders.

Carl Nassib, #94, has played one season with the Raiders, two with the Buccaneers and two with the Browns.

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“I really have the best life,” Nassib continued in the video. “I have the best family, friends and job a guy could ask for. 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, those 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.”

He added that he was donating $100,000 to the Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning people under age 25.

Nassib said in his written statement that LGBTQ youth are far more likely than their heterosexual friends to consider suicide.

Write to Rachel Bachman at Rachel.Bachman@wsj.com

Social media reacts to Carl Nassib’s announcement that he’s gay – KFSN-TV

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Social media reacts to Carl Nassib’s announcement that he’s gay – KFSN-TV

On Monday, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to announce he is gay. Nassib made the announcement on Instgram, saying “I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now, but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest.”

Raiders owner Mark Davis told ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez after Nassib’s announcement: “It’s 2021. All the more power to Carl. It doesn’t change my opinion of him as a person or as a Raider.”

Shortly after, players and teams from around sports began to chime in with their support of Nassib. Reaction ranged from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to Jason Collins, who became the NBA’s first openly gay player in 2014.

Carl Nassib Is The First Active NFL Player To Come Out As Gay – KUT

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Carl Nassib Is The First Active NFL Player To Come Out As Gay – KUT

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Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib came out in a personal Instagram post on Monday, saying he has “agonized over this moment for the last 15 years.”

“I just want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” Nassib said in an Instagram video he posted on his verified Instagram account. “I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest.”

The 28-year-old added: “I really have the best life. I’ve got the best family, friends and job a guy could ask for. I’m a pretty private person, so I hope you guys know I’m not doing this for attention, but I think representation matters.”

Nassib is by no means the first gay football player in the NFL, but he is the first openly gay active player in the league to play in the regular season. Michael Sam, came out as gay following his successful college career came and before the 2014 NFL draft, making him the first publicly gay player to be drafted in the NFL. However, Sam only played during the preseason. A handful of other players have come out after their professional careers had ended.

The Raiders and the NFL each posted congratulations.

“I stand on the shoulders of giants, incredible people who paved the way for me to have this opportunity,” Nassib wrote in his post.

He also announced that he is donating $100,000 to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization that focuses on suicide prevention programs for LGBT youth.

“For someone like me, who’s been so lucky and cherished every day, it brings me incredible sadness to think that our LGBTQ youth are at such an elevated risk for suicide,” Nassib wrote.

He signed off, calling himself “a lanky walk-on who’s living his dream,” wishing everyone a happy Pride month.

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The Raiders defensive lineman came out in a video posted on social media and said he would donate $100,000 to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit dedicated to suicide prevention efforts for L.G.B.T.Q. youth.

: What’s up, people. I’m Carl Nassib. I’m at my house here in West Chester, Pa. 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. 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 one day videos like this and the whole coming out process are just not necessary. But until then, you know, 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. They’re an incredible organization. They’re the No. 1 suicide prevention service for L.G.B.T.Q. youth in America, and they’re truly doing incredible things. And I’m very excited to be a part of it to help in any way that I can. And I’m really pumped to see what the future holds.

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Raiders’ Carl Nassib Comes Out As NFL’s First Openly Gay Active Player – Yahoo Entertainment

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Raiders’ Carl Nassib Comes Out As NFL’s First Openly Gay Active Player – Yahoo Entertainment

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib made history today, becoming the first active NFL player to come out as gay. He made the announcement in an Instagram post.

“I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” he said in the video post, which you can watch below. “I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now but finally feel comfortable getting it off my chest.”

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He added: “I’m a pretty private person, so I hope you guys know 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, you know, I’m gonna do my best and do my part to cultivate a culture that’s accepting, that’s compassionate, and I’m gonna start by donating $100,00 to The Trevor Project.”

Founded by the filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning 1994 short film Trevor, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ people under 25. The fictional film was about a gay 13-year-old who is rejected by his friends and attempts suicide.

In 2014, Michael Sam became the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team when the then-St. Louis Rams picked him in the seventh round. He didn’t make the team, though, and Sam spent some time with the Dallas Cowboys organization before leaving the league without having played a regular-season game. He played the 2015 season with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, after competing on Dancing with the Stars earlier that year.

Nassib, 28, joined the relocated Raiders last year for their first season in Las Vegas, having played two seasons each for the Cleveland Browns and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year while at Penn State in 2015.

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Florida gay community’s celebration turns tragic in fatal car accident – 1News

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Florida gay community’s celebration turns tragic in fatal car accident – 1News

The Pride parade route glowed with rainbow colors and Mardi Gras beads, some crowd-goers waved flags, anticipating what should have been a celebration of life and love, more meaningful than ever post-pandemic in this tight-knit South Florida gay community.

Police and firefighters respond after a truck drove into a crowd of people injuring them during The Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival in Wilton Manors, Florida. Source: Associated Press

But it quickly turned into terror Sunday night, as gleeful cheers were drowned by the sounds of sirens and crying children.

Michael Albetta has participated in the parade for years and was readying to walk the route alongside US Congressman Ted Deutch in his role as regional director for the Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus. The two were queuing up as the parade was about to begin when he heard the truck’s engine revving.

The 77-year-old driver of the pickup, a member of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus, suddenly accelerated forward, killing a fellow chorister and injuring another in what the chorus director, city officials and Wilton Manors police said was a tragic accident.

“You hear the engine roaring and galloping with more speed. All of a sudden you heard ‘thump, thump, thump,’ and those were the bodies he was hitting and he just crashed right through the nursery,” a shaken Albetta said in an interview Monday.

Fort Lauderdale police have not released the name of the driver or the victims, but said the driver was cooperating with the investigation and there was no evidence drugs or alcohol was involved. No arrests have been made and friends said the driver and members of the 25-person ensemble are heartbroken by the loss.

Albetta said the driver narrowly missed US Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s vehicle, somehow jumped the curb and came straight down on the victims, before careening into a fence on the opposite side of the road.

In the initial aftermath, parade participants and witnesses didn’t know want to think. A visibly shaken Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said it was a terrorist act on the gay community. yesterday, he said he was traumatized by what he witnessed and clarified it was an accident.

The parade route turned into pandemonium as participants and witnesses pieced together what had happened. Parade goers waiting at the end of the route heard the commotion and were frantically calling friends near the accident at the front of the route asking if they should flee.

A heavy police presence already secured the parade route, so there was an immediate onslaught of blaring sirens and flashing lights.

“Children saw this, and they were in shock and they started crying because they saw people on the ground with the blood coming out. It was horrible,” said Albetta, who said the 7- and 10-year-old children with his group were so traumatized their parents immediately took them home.

“To see human life being taken out was just awful,” he said.

Fort Lauderdale police said they are conducting a thorough investigation with the FBI, noting in a statement they are “considering and evaluating all possibilities.”

But the Fort Lauderdale mayor, the Wilton Manors police chief and vice mayor, and the chorus director stressed that it was an accident.

A spokesman for the chorus said the director did not want to give interviews, adding that many members of the small group witnessed the fatal crash and were deeply shaken.

“As the Chorus family mourns together, we thank the community for their love and understanding,” according to a statement on the group’s website, which referred to it as an “unfortunate accident.”

Wilton Manors is a tight-knit community near Fort Lauderdale with a vibrant downtown filled with shops, where people line up for Rosie’s famous hamburgers or to gossip and drink at Georgie’s Alibi Monkey Bar.

June is Pride Month, commemorating a June 1969 uprising that followed a police raid targeting gay patrons at the Stonewall Inn in New York. It was a catalyst for the gay rights movement.

Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay – Colorado Springs Gazette

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Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay – Colorado Springs Gazette

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.

Nassib, who is entering his sixth NFL season and second with the Raiders, announced the news on Instagram, saying he wasn’t doing it for the attention but because he felt representation and visibility were important.

“I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” Nassib said in his video message from his home in West Chester, Pa. “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 got the best family, friends and job a guy can ask for. 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.”

Nassib added in a written message that followed the video that he “agonized over this moment for the last 15 years” and only recently decided to go public with his sexuality after receiving the support of family and friends.

“I am also incredibly thankful for the NFL, my coaches, and fellow players for their support,” Nassib wrote. “I would not have been able to do this without them. From the jump I was greeted with the utmost respect and acceptance.”

Nassib, whose announcement came during Pride Month, added that he was donating $100,000 to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that seeks to prevent suicides among LGBTQ youth.

“The NFL family is proud of Carl for courageously sharing his truth today,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “Representation matters. We share his hope that someday soon statements like his will no longer be newsworthy as we march toward full equality for the LGBTQ+ community. We wish Carl the best of luck this coming season.”

Nassib’s announcement also was greeted by Brian Burke, president of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. Burke has been a major proponent of LGBTQ rights for more than a decade since his late son Brendan came out as gay.

“Proud to support Carl and his decision to come out as the first active gay player in the NFL,” Burke said. “I hope other sports executives will join me in publicly expressing their support as well.”

The Raiders showed their support, writing, “Proud of you, Carl,” on their repost of Nassib’s message on Twitter and adding a black heart emoji.

DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association, tweeted: “Our union supports Carl and his work with the Trevor Project is proof that he — like our membership — is about making his community and this world a better place not for themselves, but for others.”

Penn State coach James Franklin said he and his wife Fumi were inspired by Nassib’s announcement to donate $10,000 to the Trevor Project.

“I am very proud of Carl for his courage and voice,” Franklin said. “This announcement doesn’t surprise me because if you know Carl, you know his strength. Carl’s story continues to add chapters which will have an impact well beyond the field of play.”

Nassib led the nation with 15½ sacks in 2015, Franklin’s second season in State College, and he was a cornerstone of the program’s path back to contention.

“Carl’s brave announcement will forge a path for others to be true to their authentic self,” Franklin added. “I was proud of Carl when he led the nation in sacks, but I’m even more proud of him now.”

Former All-Pro linebacker Shawne Merriman commended Nassib and suggested teammates and opponents won’t have a problem with his announcement.

“Congrats to Carl Nassib on coming out that’s a big step, I think that most players are concerned if you can play or not,” Merriman tweeted.

In a post saying he was proud of Nassib, Hall of Famer Warren Moon said he played with several gay football players in a storied pro career that spanned from 1978 to 2000 but none were “comfortable enough to go public.”

“They were great teammates, & obviously very talented. As long as they helped us win and were great teammates, their sexual preference was never a issue,” Moon wrote. “We live in a different time now where diversity is much more accepted. Cheers Carl, and I hope this lets other athletes know, its OK to say who you are…”

Added fellow Nittany Lions alum and Giants running back Saquon Barkley, “Much respect brudda.”

Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, a leading LGBTQ advocacy organization, called Nassib’s “powerful coming out is a historic reflection of the growing state of LGBTQ visibility and inclusion in the world of professional sports, which has been driven by a long list of brave LGBTQ athletes who came before him.”

Ellis said Nassib’s story “will not only have a profound impact on the future of LGBTQ visibility and acceptance in sports, but sends a strong message to so many LGBTQ people, especially youth, that they too can one day grow up to be and succeed as a professional athlete like him.”

More than a dozen NFL players have come out as gay after their careers were over.

Former University of Missouri defensive star Michael Sam was the first openly gay football player ever selected in the NFL draft, going in the seventh round to the then-St. Louis Rams in 2014. But he never made the final roster and retired in 2015 having never played in an NFL regular-season game.

Nassib is a sixth-year pro who was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 2016 in the third round (65th overall) out of Penn State. He played two seasons for the Browns and two for Tampa Bay before joining the Raiders in 2020. He has 20 1/2 sacks in 73 career games.

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Jana Riess: There are more young lesbian, gay or bisexual Latter-day Saints than previously believed – Salt Lake Tribune

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Jana Riess: There are more young lesbian, gay or bisexual Latter-day Saints than previously believed – Salt Lake Tribune

Note • With data analysis by Benjamin Knoll.

More than a fifth of Generation Z Latter-day Saints do not self-identify as heterosexual, according to a major national study.

One in 10 is bisexual.

The Nationscape dataset, which canvassed more than 318,000 Americans on a rolling basis in 2019 and 2020, had 3,881 self-identified members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the survey. This makes it one of the largest studies of Mormons ever fielded in the United States.

One of the most valuable aspects of the data is what it can tell us about the basic demographics of this population, including gender, race, geography and sexual orientation.

Not surprisingly, there is more sexual diversity among younger Latter-day Saints than older ones. While 94% of baby boomers said they were heterosexual, just 77% of Generation Z did. (This analysis borrows Pew’s cutoff dates for the generations, which uses 1997 as the first birth year of Gen Z. Only adult Gen Zers over age 18 were eligible for the study.)

So, 23% of Gen Zers who identify as LDS say they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or other. And nearly as many (19%) of millennials did as well. It’s notable that this finding is nearly double the 10% that Benjamin Knoll and I found among millennials in the 2016 Next Mormons Survey (which broke down into 7% bisexual, 2% gay or lesbian, and 1% “other”).

Let’s unpack the Nationscape study’s finding of 23% a bit more. Within Gen Z, the major outliers compared to other generations of Latter-day Saints were the categories of bisexual and “other.”

We think three points are worth making here.

First, generationally, sexual diversity is high among Gen Z Mormons because it’s high among Gen Z as a whole. In terms of sexual orientation, Nationscape’s Gen Z Latter-day Saints look a lot like non-Mormons their same age:

So Gen Z Latter-day Saints, like their counterparts around the nation, are more likely to be queer. According to Pew’s recent study of Gen Z, they seem more comfortable with gender fluidity and same-sex marriage than any other generation, though millennials come close.

Gen Zers are also more likely to feel fine stating their sexual orientation on a survey. Fewer than 1% chose the “prefer not to say” option in the Nationscape study, compared to 2% to 4% of the members of older generations who did not want to answer the question. The atmosphere today for stating a nonheterosexual identity is far more hospitable than it was even a decade ago, and many Gen Zers don’t personally remember a time when they could be fired from a job for being LGBTQ.

The second point is that Gen Z Mormons currently show more sexual diversity than older generations of Latter-day Saints because, frankly, some of them are statistically likely to leave the church but have not yet done so.

The Gen Z respondents in the Nationscape study were 18 to 22 at the time of the survey. According to our own research in The Next Mormons, the median age for leaving the church is around 19. In other words, there is still some settling and sorting yet to happen here. We are by no means saying that all of these queer-identifying young adult Mormons are going to exit the church, of course — only that statistically, more will likely do so than their heterosexual peers.

It’s not surprising that it’s harder for LGBTQ members to stay. The church has made a point for years of fighting same-sex marriage, condemning nontraditional families as “counterfeit,” and preventing church members who are in a same-sex relationship from attending the temple, holding certain callings or exercising the priesthood. While there have beenimportant steps toward compassion and understanding in the past few years, that damage still runs deep.

So the percentage of queer Gen Z Latter-day Saints will probably not be as high as 23% in future studies. That won’t be because these people will have magically become heterosexual as they get older. It will be because they will have ceased to be Mormon, and will drop out of the pool of respondents who currently identify as members. As well, some heterosexuals will likely continue to switch in to the religion through conversion, possibly enough to change the ratio going forward.

Finally, one surprising aspect of the study is related to race and geography. Nationscape’s data suggests that among Mormons, some racial and ethnic minorities were more likely to also be sexual minorities.

Among all Americans, heterosexuality was 87% for Hispanics and 90% for Blacks, but among Latter-day Saints it was 71% for Hispanics and 74% for Blacks. It’s a statistically significant difference because the sample size is big enough that this isn’t just a random sampling error. Still, it’s unclear why Black and Hispanic Mormons exhibit more sexual diversity than their non-LDS counterparts.

Incidentally, the Nationscape study showed a double-digit difference between Mormons who lived in Utah (94% heterosexual) and those who did not (83% heterosexual). This echoes and widens a smaller 4-point difference we found in the 2016 NMS regarding the sexual orientation of Mormons in Utah versus Mormons elsewhere.

We speculate that this is the result of self-selection, in that red-state Utah may just be a more challenging place for sexual minorities to live, at least outside of Salt Lake City.

Thug shouting slurs fractures gay man’s skull as his partner screams for help – LGBTQ Nation

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A gay man in Harrison Township, Michigan has been hospitalized after a vicious attack that his partner said was a hate crime.

On June 15, Anthony Hamilton and Michael Hall were riding scooters together on their way home from work when a driver in a white Sedan pulled over and began yelling anti-LGBTQ slurs at the couple.

Hall and Hamilton kept moving, but the car followed. Eventually, Hall stopped and told the driver to leave them alone. This led the driver to get out of the car and begin assaulting Hall.

“He socks Mike in the face and he fell onto the blacktop and doesn’t move,” Hamilton told Click On Detroit.

“I remember pointing down and I remember looking at him going, are you okay, like why are you doing this,” he continued, in tears, “Dude do you know what you did this guy could be hurt and I’m shouting to his friend [who was in the passenger seat of the car] dude dial 911.”

According to a GoFundMe that has been set up to support Hall, “The driver continued to hover over Michael while threatening to kill him.”

Hall was taken to the hospital after suffering a skull fracture, brain bleed, fractured eye socket, memory loss, and a broken nose. As of June 17, he was alert and had been moved out of the ICU.

“I’m shocked, I’m upset, I’m scared,” Hamilton told Click On Detroit.

The perpetrator, who is white and approximately 5’ 11”, has not yet been identified. With no cameras in the area where the attack happened, the police are asking anyone who may have witnessed it to come forward.

“Michael will have a long recovery and will struggle with memory for the next few months,” the GoFundMe explains.

It went on to say that Hall was planning to travel to North Carolina for a family reunion on June 17, but of course, had to miss it.

Thus, the fundraiser is not only seeking to cover his medical bills but also to help reunite Michael with his family for another trip.

“We are asking for friends, family, and the community to band together to show Michael that there is still some faith in humanity. Michael and Anthony have suffered some serious Post-Traumatic issues from the assault and are very thankful to be alive.”

‘One Last Stop’ serves as a great LGBT romantic comedy story – The Cougar – The Daily Cougar

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‘One Last Stop’ serves as a great LGBT romantic comedy story – The Cougar – The Daily Cougar

By Sydney Rose June 21, 2021

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To follow a debut novel, author Casey McQuiston releases a story in “One Last Stop” that caters to an underrepresented community in romance literature.

Set in New York, the main character August is finding a new place to move to in the city so she could attend a new college. The novel features many side characters, including August’s roommates and co-workers that really give the book life.

Judging by the book’s title of “One Last Stop”, there are many scenes involving the subway stops of New York. It is here where August meets the book’s love interest, Jane.

Jane as a character alone is such an important love interest in the fact that she is an Asian butch lesbian that August becomes infatuated with quite literally at first glance. Not to mention Jane is a character from the 1970s in every way. This includes her fashion, music taste, beliefs and the fact that she has not aged a day since the decade as she has been stuck on a subway train for over 40 years.

In many media platforms and stories to tell, lesbian or bisexual women in relationships are not highlighted, or if they are, only cater to a certain stigma. So, “One Last Stop” is a breath of fresh air for the sapphic community.

With McQuiston’s book, the reader can see a friend group that is not entirely made up of straight or white characters, and it helps paint a picture of what many real friend groups look like in the world today.

And it really is characters like Niko, Myla, Wes and Isaiah who make the book what it is. Their personalities and friendship with August make scenes that are supposed to just be filler before the romance plot so lively and entertaining to read.

The one thing about “One Last Stop” is even if the two main characters are not the biggest personalities in the book, there are still moments that make the reader root for their story.

Some of the scenes between Jane and August can get lost among the others as the setting pretty much stays as the subway train every interaction the characters have. This can have the reader rooting for August to solve Jane’s problem of being stuck on the train, but also have an impatience to when there will finally be a scene change.

A lot of the book is written to solve Jane’s problem and get her off of the train. But, there is a lingering question of if she would go back to the 1970s or if she would stay in the 21st century with August.

Anticipation comes in reading the novel, almost making the ending feel rushed. Those reading want more from the main couple in the book. We only really get a quick montage of what August and Jane’s life is like after Jane is released from the train and staying in the 2000s with August in the last handful of pages.

But with the happy ending the two main characters are given, finishing the book can give the reader a happy and hopeful feel that sometimes is not always the case with these stories.

With a book that was set to follow in McQuiston’s debut novel, ‘Red, White & Royal Blue‘s footsteps, “One Last Stop” was able to hold its own.

Overall, “One Last Stop”does wonders for LGBT literature in creating a story about a woman-love-woman relationship that holds a plot and a clear connection between the main characters.

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Raiders’ Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay – KKCO-TV

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Raiders’ Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay – KKCO-TV

(AP) – Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.

Nassib, who is entering his sixth NFL season and second with the Raiders, announced the news on Instagram, saying he wasn’t doing it for the attention but because he felt representation and visibility were important.

“I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” Nassib said in his video message from his home in West Chester, Pennsylvania. “I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now, but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest.