Title: The David Kopay Story Author: David Kopay and Perry Deane Young Published by: Primus, 1988 ISBN: 1-55611-080-4 [trade paperback, 279 pages]
The David Kopay Story is one of the most unsparing and moving accounts of one man's search for sexual identity in America. It began in December, 1975. David Kopay, a ten-year-veteran running back for the San Francisco Forty-Niners, the Detroit Lions, the Washington Redskins, the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers, had decided it was time to end his long personal nightmare and publicly reveal his sexual preference for men -- the first professional athlete ever to do so.To explain why he chose to do so meant revealing the conflicting emotional touchstones of an entire life, including his early education at a Catholic seminary, his sexual experience with a male college classmate and later an all-pro player, his psychotherapy that, while under hypnosis, helped induce him to marry a former flight attendant, his heartbreaking confrontations with his parents and older brother, and the unpredictable support from certain former teammates as well as others -- homosexual and heterosexual -- whom he had never met.
In the new material added especially for this second edition, David Kopay writes about what has happened in the years since The David Kopay Story was first published, told with the same unsparing candor that made the original edition a now classic work.
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