NFL’s First Out Active Player + DataLounge Logs Off + More

Some news items for you

• Outsports: It was five years ago this month that Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. Sadly, no NFL player has followed him since. Still, Nassib calls it “the best decision I ever made.”

• IFC Center: A new 4K restoration of the late Lino Brocka’s 1988 sexy Macho Dancer is coming to theaters July 10.

Synopsis: Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo Pol (Allan Paule) leaves his native province to try his luck in the soapy gay clubs of Manila.

• DataLounge: After 31 years, DataLounge – one of the very first gay internet message boards – has announced it will end July 31.

• Them: A 38-year-old woman whom prosecutors say acted as the “ringleader” in the torture and violent murder of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old Black transgender man, pleaded guilty to all charges against her including first-degree murder, kidnapping, and aggravated sexual abuse.

• X: Mayor Mamdani celebrated the opening of NYC’s outdoor pool season by jumping into the Thomas Jefferson Pool in East Harlem (in his suit), marking the 90th anniversary of NYC’s iconic WPA-era public pools.

🚨Mayor Mamdani just kicked off pool season by jumping in the pool with kids from Harlem.

This is the guy MAGA and Trump are spending all of their energy trying to make voters fear.

It isn’t working. pic.twitter.com/tw1L6719PF

— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) June 27, 2026