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(18,421 posts) Mon Feb 24, 2014, 02:43 PM Feb 2014

Gay NFL star dies after battle with pneumonia

Roy Simmons, the second retired former NFL player to come out as gay and the first player ever to come out publicly as being HIV positive, has died at the age of 57.

He had been recently hospitalised with pneumonia and died last Thursday at his home in the Bronx, New York City.

His death was announced today.

Simmons was a competent player in the NFL who played for both the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants during his career. His final game was in 1984.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/02/24/gay-nfl-star-dies-battle-pneumonia/

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