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WATCH: Gay NFL Hopeful Alan Gendreau While Waiting for Draft to Finish
The NFL draft lasts two to three days and goes to seven rounds. As of third round, Gendreau still hasn't been chosen.
 Diane Anderson-Minshall
          
          Apr 27, 2013
          
        
Diane Anderson-Minshall
Diane Anderson-Minshall is the CEO of Pride Media, and editorial director of The Advocate, Out, and Plus magazine. She's the winner of numerous awards from GLAAD, the NLGJA, WPA, and was named to Folio's Top Women in Media list. She and her co-pilot of 30 years, transgender journalist Jacob Anderson-Minshall penned several books including Queerly Beloved: A Love Across Genders.
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Alan Gendreau, the placekicker who is hoping to become the first openly gay player in the NFL, was the first out player to enter the draft this week. Unfortunately, he's still waiting to be picked, but his interview with ABC News is worth a gander for fans who are on pins and needles still.
 
 

        
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“New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

What started as curiosity and flirtation turned into something far more unsettling when Randell Smith’s digital companion suddenly decided he’d crossed a line.

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It was supposed to be the event's 35th anniversary in June.

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