Dave kopay autobiography books

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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.

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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 gayn

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The David Kopay Story: An Extraordinary Self-Revelation by David Kopay

March 15, 2011

Kopay's book, which made a significant impact at the time of its publication, has not aged particularly well. The narrative lacks the bite of Meggyesy's Out of Their League and the color of Bouton's Ball Four, the attempts at advocacy are somewhat ham-handed (at one point, he and his collaborator Perry Deane Young republish letters from Kopay's supporters), and the last section of the book--some sort of road trip to redemption--is an absolute mess. The inconsistent voice, with chapters "told by" either Kopay or co-author Young, is a tremendous distraction. Even stranger is the fact that Kopay's "extraordinary self-revelation" (to quote from the cover) leads not to some sort of semi-monogamous relationship--indeed the co-author, who practices casual sex because it's the modern thing to do--but a series of soulless hook-ups, including various threesomes (Kopay refuses to rule out eventually marrying

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