Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Ex-football star pledges $1 million to gay students

David Kopay remembers the feelings of isolation, paranoia and loneliness in college, when he stayed deep in the closet. A star on the football team in the early 1960s, he was not about to come out.

Now nearing retirement, Kopay is giving back so that future gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students will have resources to have an easier time on their own coming out journeys.

Kopay, the first NFL player to come out and author of the seminal 1977 autobiography "The David Kopay Story," has made a $1 million testamentary pledge to the University of Washington, his beloved alma mater. Kopay hopes the pledge, to be used for at-need LGBT students, will spur others to donate to the David Kopay Endowment. He will be honored at a special dinner Friday, along with others who have pledged at least $1 million.

http://outsports.com/people/2007/kopay0904.htm
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