{"id":121277,"date":"2020-02-01T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-ex-nfl-star-ryan-ocallaghan-found-the-courage-to-come-out\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T15:26:12","slug":"how-ex-nfl-star-ryan-ocallaghan-found-the-courage-to-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-ex-nfl-star-ryan-ocallaghan-found-the-courage-to-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ex-NFL Star Ryan O\u2019Callaghan Found the Courage to Come Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>How Ex-NFL Star Ryan O\u2019Callaghan Found the Courage to Come Out<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/sites\/advocate.com\/files\/bike-with-yellow-wall-min_54.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan\"><\/p>\n<p>The former football player opens up about being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> in the NFL, why he hid his sexual orientation, and how addiction treatment saved his life.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/sports\/2020\/2\/01\/how-ex-nfl-star-ryan-ocallaghan-found-courage-come-out\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.advocate.com\/sports\/2020\/2\/01\/how-ex-nfl-star-ryan-ocallaghan-found-courage-come-out<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Ex-NFL Star Ryan O\u2019Callaghan Found the Courage to Come Out The former football player opens up about being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> in the NFL, why he hid his sexual orientation, and how addiction treatment saved his life. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/sports\/2020\/2\/01\/how-ex-nfl-star-ryan-ocallaghan-found-courage-come-out\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.advocate.com\/sports\/2020\/2\/01\/how-ex-nfl-star-ryan-ocallaghan-found-courage-come-out<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-121277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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