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Coming out of the
locker room
Esera Tuaolo, ex-Carolina Panther,
tells all in new autobiography
Coming out on the heels of Roy
Simmons’ autobiography “Out of Bounds,
Esera TUaolo’s “Alone in
the Trenches” chronicles
what it was like to spend
nine years on five different
NFL teams as a closeted
gay man. Only the third
former NFL player to come
out publicly (and one of
the sports’ few Polynesian
players), Hiaolo came from
impoverished circum
stances. He played football
partly because of his natu
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ly because of the boost it
gave his meager self
esteem, but mainly for the
money and opportunities it
offered. “Football gave me a college schol
arship, the chance to buy a house for my
mother, the opportunity to travel, and
much more,” he readily admits.
while both “Out of Bounds” and
“Alone in the Trenches” concern gay
men who passed as straight
while playing in the NFL,
the two books could hardly
be more different in tone
and content. Whereas
Simmons’ memoir ruefully
chronicles the excesses of a man who
descended into addiction and criminal
behavior, Tuaolo’s autobiography isn’t
nearly so sensationalistic. Like its author,
the book is modest, sincere and heart
felt, but nevertheless contains its share
of surprising revelations.
Growing up in a grass hut with a dirt
floor on a Hawaiian banana plantation,
Hiaolo saw one of his aunts killed in front
of him, felled by a neigh
bor’s bullet intended for his
father. When Esera was lO,
his father died unexpected
ly, and the family struggled:
his mother sent him to live
with an older brother who
beat him, and whose girl
friend sexually molested
him.
Even as a young child,
Tuaolo knew he liked
other boys, and also
quickly learned what
most people thought of
that sort of person. As he
explains, “In Polynesian
culture, it’s okay to be a
faafafine, an effeminate and affected gay
man. ... To be masculine and gay was
not okay.... being gay meant someone
was weak.”
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