{"id":106925,"date":"2019-11-14T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-reminder-that-politician-brian-sims-used-to-be-quite-a-football-jock\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:27:10","slug":"a-reminder-that-politician-brian-sims-used-to-be-quite-a-football-jock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-reminder-that-politician-brian-sims-used-to-be-quite-a-football-jock\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder that politician Brian Sims used to be quite a football jock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A reminder that politician Brian Sims used to be quite a football jock<\/b><\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-543019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2019\/11\/brian_sims_horizontal_crop_montage-670x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2019\/11\/brian_sims_horizontal_crop_montage-670x374.jpg 670w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2019\/11\/brian_sims_horizontal_crop_montage-400x224.jpg 400w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/2019\/11\/brian_sims_horizontal_crop_montage.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/brian-sims\">Brian Sims<\/a> in his senior year at university in 2000 (Photo: Brian Sims | Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brian Sims has surprised \u2013 and delighted \u2013 many of his followers by re-sharing an old throwback photo.<\/p>\n<p>The politician, 41, a Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 182nd district, first shared the photo a few years ago, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/495539003867549\/posts\/2614586301962798?d=n&#038;sfns=mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">re-sharing<\/a> it yesterday has prompted a huge response.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The photo has prompted thousands of reactions on Facebook and Instagram, and hundreds of\u2026 well, thirsty comments.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/gay-politician-brian-sims-banned-facebook-sharing-anti-gay-slur-directed-20190117\">Brian Sims banned from Facebook for sharing an anti-gay slur directed at him<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sims was born in Washington DC in 1978. The son of Army colonels, he moved from state to state before the family settled in Pennsylvania in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst at Bloomsburg University he was co-captain of the Bloomsburg University team and was recognized as a scholar-athlete.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsports.com\/out-gay-athletes\/2013\/2\/21\/4015526\/brian-sims-football-gay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came out to his teammates<\/a> during the 2000 season, becoming the first openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> college football captain in NCAA history.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He went on to get a law degree at Michigan State University School of Law. Sims became an attorney after university before entering politics full time.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected to office in 2012. 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PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=hQo6D5WTlJU:z-uHZV1avJ0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=hQo6D5WTlJU:z-uHZV1avJ0:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/reminder-politician-brian-sims-used-quite-football-jock-20191114?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.queerty.com\/reminder-politician-brian-sims-used-quite-football-jock-20191114?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder that politician Brian Sims used to be quite a football jock Brian Sims in his senior year at university in 2000 (Photo: Brian Sims | Facebook) Brian Sims has surprised \u2013 and delighted \u2013 many of his followers by re-sharing an old throwback photo. The politician, 41, a Member of the Pennsylvania House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-reminder-that-politician-brian-sims-used-to-be-quite-a-football-jock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A reminder that politician Brian Sims used to be quite a football jock<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[32278,5504,32279,949],"class_list":["post-106925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bloomsburg-university","tag-ncaa","tag-related-brian-sims","tag-washington-dc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A reminder that politician Brian Sims used to be quite a football jock - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/a-reminder-that-politician-brian-sims-used-to-be-quite-a-football-jock\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A reminder that politician Brian Sims used to be quite a football jock - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A reminder that politician Brian Sims used to be quite a football jock Brian Sims in his senior year at university in 2000 (Photo: Brian Sims | Facebook) Brian Sims has surprised \u2013 and delighted \u2013 many of his followers by re-sharing an old throwback photo. 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