Dave kopay autobiography books

  • Buy The David Kopay Story: An Extraordinary Self-Revelation by Kopay, David (ISBN: 9780877951452) from Amazon's Book Store.
  • Kopay describes the struggles that he had with hiding his sexuality with his team mates, family and friends.
  • Twenty-three years after publishing his story, David Kopay remains the only NFL player who has publicly acknowledged his homosexuality.
  • The David Kopay Story: Make illegal Extraordinary Self-Revelation by King Kopay

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    David Kopay's earth-shattering story, published in 1977, when he became the first NFL player publicly to acknowledge his homosexuality. After a ten year career as a running back for the San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers, Kopay became the first prominent male athlete in history to come out of the closet. Here, he reveals the conflicting emotional states that first prevented him from living openly and then drove him to the point of complete show more honest. As inspiring today as it was upon publication.show less

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    This is a great book about a man's journey on finding himself and his self acceptance of his homosexuality. I think it was very courageous of what he did, it took a lot of courage for him to "come out". Although it was sad the way his parents, brother and aunts treated him after he "came out" they just completely shun him and talked bad about him about his gayness. It was a good thing that he had such good friends that supported him though his family's rejection of his gayness. I praise Kopay for what he did because he was the first athlete that had ever "come out" publicly and he had changed the face of Homosexuality, people saw and read about him being

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