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'''David Marquete "Dave" Kopay''', football running back who became the "first professional sport athlete to declare his homosexuality" when he came out as gay in 1975 Dave Kopay was born 28 Jun 1942 in Chicago, Cook County, [[Illinois]]. "Kopay played for the Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins, retiring in 1972 after a productive nine-year pro career. His private affairs were known to few." He came out as gay in 1975 in an interview with ''Washington Star'' reporter Lynn Rosellini, three years after the end of his nine-year professional football career. In 1969 and 1970 he had a friendship and a one-night stand with All-pro tight-end Jerry Smith who died of AIDS in 1986. When Kopay with writer Perry Deane Young wrote his autobiography, he used a pseudonym for Jerry Smith calling him "Bill Stiles". In an interview in 2002 he stated that he had been working for 20 years for a linoleum company in Los Angeles that his uncle owned, as a buyer for movie studios. At the bottom of that interview is an email address for him, but my message to that address in 2008 bounced as "user unknown". ==Works== *''The David Kopay Story: An extraordinary self-revelation'', by David Kopay and Perry Deane Young; Arbor House, New York. 1977 ==Sources== *[http://espn.go.com/otl/world/kopay.html "Kopay: Apologizes to Aikman"], 18 Dec 1998. At the end of this interview he states : "My address is 4455 Los Feliz Boulevard, Unit 907, Los Angeles 90027" *[http://espn.go.com/otl/world/day2_part1.html "Still waiting for a hero"], 15 Jan 1999, by Greg Garber, Special to ESPN.com *[http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/football/kopay05.shtml "Twenty-five years after disclosing he was gay, Dave Kopay remains a pioneer"], by Dan Raley, 5 Dec 2000, for the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' *[http://www.outsports.com/nfl/2002/kopay0902.htm "Dave Kopay: Still Going Strong — The Former NFL Player Remains an Outspoken Advocate for Gay Rights"], by Jim Buzinski on Outsports.com, 3 Sept 2002 *[http://www.glbtq.com/arts/kopay_d.html "David Kopay"] article on glbtq.com *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpOSdAMKro0 Interview with David Kopay], 24 Feb 2007 *[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/jerrybrewer/2003870883_brewer06.html "UW ex-player's pledge is more than a cash figure"], by Jerry Brewer, 6 Sep 2007 for the ''Seattle Times''
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