{"id":8513,"date":"2011-07-18T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2011-07-18T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:38:21","slug":"michael-irvin-tells-%e2%80%98out-magazine%e2%80%99-his-brother-was-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8513","title":{"rendered":"Michael Irvin Tells  \u2018Out Magazine\u2019 His Brother Was Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 Hall of Fame receiver <strong>Michael Irvin<\/strong> says his womanizing may have stemmed from seeing an older brother whom he idolized dressed as a woman and learning the brother was gay.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest issue of Out Magazine,<strong> Irvin<\/strong> said he was 12 when he discovered his older brother <strong>Vaughn\u2019s<\/strong> secret life. He said his father told him: \u201cYes, that\u2019s your brother. And you love your brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Dallas Cowboys star now appears on the NFL Network and on his own radio show in Miami. He has supported same-sex marriage on his radio show and has said he\u2019s waiting for an active player in the NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL to declare publicly that he is gay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil we do that, we\u2019re going to be stuck in the Dark Ages about a lot of things,\u201d <strong>Irvin<\/strong> told the magazine. \u201cWhen a guy steps up and says, \u2018This is who I am,\u2019 I guarantee you I\u2019ll give him 100 percent support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irvin<\/strong> said carrying the burden of <strong>Vaughn\u2019s<\/strong> secret gives him a hint of how tough it must be for a homosexual athlete to hide his orientation in a locker room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m not gay and I am afraid to mention it, I can only imagine what an athlete must be going through if he is gay,\u201d <strong>Irvin<\/strong> said. \u201cI would like to see players come forward and be happy with who they are. Hopefully, as we move forward, we\u2019ll get to a place where there\u2019s no way it\u2019s even considered; it just is what it is and everybody can do what they do. That\u2019s the ultimate goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irvin<\/strong> said he believes the fast life he\u2019s led was to accentuate his heterosexuality. He said he wanted everyone in the locker room to see him have the most women and the nicest car \u201cso that everybody says, \u2018<strong>Michael\u2019s<\/strong> the man.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin says his womanizing may have stemmed from seeing an older brother whom he idolized dressed as a woman and learning the brother was gay. In the latest issue of Out Magazine, Irvin said he was 12 when he discovered his older brother Vaughn\u2019s secret life. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}