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NFL Adds Sexual Orientation as Protected Class

By Lucas Grindley|Posted on Advocate.com September 25, 2011 01:51:39 PM ET

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/25/NFL_Adds_Sexual_Orientation_as_Protected_Class

If an NFL player decides to come out and live openly as a gay man, some of the risk of losing his job is now gone.

The NFL has added sexual orientation to its list of protected classes, a change first noticed by Pete Olsen of the blog, Wide Rights.