NFL punter Chris Kluwe has become a hero in the fight for LGBT equality but now he's a hero without a job.

The Minnesota Vikings on Monday (6 May) cut the 31-year-old Kluwe from the team after more than eight years.

'Thank you to everyone for your support,' Kluwe said in a tweet. 'Remember, one label does not define who you are as a person.'

Kluwe had feared the move when the Vikings selected UCLA punter Jeff Locke as a fifth-round draft pick.

Kwame Harris, who played offensive tackle for San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders, says it was very difficult for him to be a closeted gay player in the National Football League.

'The cost was great in asking me to not speak candidly, or (to not) be able to speak openly about myself in a complete manner,' he tells CNN.

Harris never came out as gay during when he played for the 49ers from 2003-2007 or with the Raiders in 2008.

Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o wants a career in the NFL but a well-publicized dead girlfriend hoax has teams taking into consideration more than his playing abilities.

'Teams want to know whether Manti Te'o is gay,' NBC Sports pundit Mike Florio said in a radio interview today. 'They just want to know. They want to know because in an NFL locker room, it's a different world.'

Tim Tebow won't be speaking at a Dallas mega-church with an anti-gay pastor after all.

The National Football League star, currently a back-up quarterback for the New York Jets, had been scheduled to speak at First Baptist Church of Dallas in April.

But the famous Christian jock has faced strong backlash since the appearance was announced because of anti-gay and other controversial statements made in the past by pastor Robert Jeffress.

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man behind an elaborate online hoax involving college football star Manti Te'o, says in a new television interview that he is gay and was in love with Te'o who thought Tuiasopo was a woman.

'Here we have a young man who fell deeply, romantically in love,' says television personality Dr. Phil McGraw whose two-part interview with Tuiasosopo begins airing Thursday (31 January).

It was an argument that began over a bottle of soy sauce and has resulted in the outing of a former National Football League player who has been charged with assaulting his ex-boyfriend.

Kwame Harris, who played offensive tackle for San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders, faces felony assault charges of domestic violence involving ex-boyfriend Dimitri Geier.

Harris faces felony counts of domestic violence causing great bodily injury and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury. He could face up to seven years in prison if convicted.

A far-right website is accusing US television network CBS of pushing a 'gay agenda' and 'mocking' Christians by featuring actor Neil Patrick Harris in its Super Bowl adverts.

In its 'news' report, WND slams the channel for using the openly gay 'How I Met Your Mother' star to promote the forthcoming American football tournament.

NFL punter Chris Kluwe has quit as a contributor to the St. Paul Pioneer Press over its editorial stance on gay marriage which he charges is 'irresponsible journalism and 'massively hypocritical.'

The newspaper purports to have a neutral stance on a ballot initiative in Minnesota that would change the state constitution to define marriage only between a man and a woman.

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No one who has played in the National Football League has ever come out publicly during their playing days.

But Wade Davis, who was a cornerback with the Tennessee Titans, the Washington Redskins, and the Seattle Seahawks, has just joined a select group of former players to declare to the world that they are gay.

CNN commentator Roland Martin has been taken off the air 'for the time being' in the wake of a Twitter controversy that occurred on Super Bowl Sunday.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has been calling for Martin's firing for tweets he wrote during the Super Bowl about an H&M advertisement featuring soccer star David Beckham.

On Super Bowl Sunday, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network is going to be getting wide exposure for its Public Service Announcements on anti-gay slurs.

With its Think Before You Speak campaign, GLSEN will become the first LGBT organization in the country to share such a message with Super Bowl attendees. The campaign includes four videos and features such famous faces as Hilary Duff, Wanda Sykes and the NBA's Grant Hill.